Described by Pope St. John Paul II as the “Patron Saint of Our Difficult Age,” St. Maximillian Kolbe is known not only for his death at Auschwitz but also for his use of communications media as a means of Catholic evangelization. A
Clare was born in Assisi, Italy, to a noble family. Impressed by a sermon St. Francis gave during the Lenten season of 1212, Clare received the habit from him on Palm Sunday. She went to live at the Benedictine convent near Bastia.
Edith Stein was born in Breslau, Germany, in 1891. Her parents were devout Jews, but Edith lost her faith during her teenage years.
She entered the University of Göttingen and studied under philosopher Edmund Husserl. After reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of
The son of Felix de Guzman, a noble, and Blessed Joan of Aza, Saint Dominic was born in Calaruega, Spain, in 1170. He studied at the University of Palencia and became a canon regular at the cathedral of Osma. Dominic accompanied his
It’s been 350 years since the creation of the first diocese in North America north of Mexico. The Archdiocese of Quebec, established in 1674, originally had within its boundaries most of the territory now in the United States. The see city, founded
Born in his family’s castle in Spain, Ignatius served as a page in the Spanish court. He then joined the army and was wounded in battle. While convalescing, Ignatius had a personal conversion that was sparked by his reading of the life
St. Peter Chrysologus, named “the golden word” for his poignant and well-expressed homilies is also exemplary for acting as a father to the people he shepherded as Archbishop of Ravenna during the fifth century. Born in 406, St. Peter Chrysologus was later
The line to enter the relic chapel at the National Eucharistic Congress snaked a long way through the Indiana Convention Center while the event took place from July 17-21.
Congress attendees seeking to venerate the relics of several saints at times stood in
Joachim and Anne are mentioned as the parents of Mary in the apocryphal Gospel of James. Born in Bethlehem, Anne married Joachim and although they had wealth and led a devout life, they were left childless. Joachim retreated to the desert to
Saint Sharbel Makhluf was a priest and a monk who never traveled far from his home village of Bekaa Kafra, Lebanon. Yet his influence as intercessor after his death has extended to non-Christians to include Muslims. Born in 1828 as Joseph Zaroun