Sts. Crispin and Crispinian

Shoemakers
Saints Crispin and Crispian are believed to be brothers born to a noble family in Rome in the middle of the third century. The brothers, along with Saint Quintinus, worked for the conversion of Gaul by their mission of… Read More

St. Ursula

Maiden Martyr
Several legends are circulated regarding the life, journeys, and death of St. Ursula and her companions.
Ursula was the daughter of a Christian British king. The stories of her life are based primarily on the inscriptions by Clamatius,… Read More

St. Edward the Confessor

The Just King
Edward was born in 1003 in Oxford, England, the son of King Ethelred II, who was later unseated by a Danish invasion. Edward was to be sent to Denmark to be killed, but fled to Normandy instead.… Read More

St. Alexander Sauli

Alexander was born in 1534 in Milan, Italy, to an important Genoese family. He joined the Barnabites, which had been recently founded by St. Antony Zaccharia, at the age of seventeen, and studied at the Order’s college at Pavia, which… Read More

St. Francis Borgia

Francis was born the first of 17 children to a noble family in Valencia, Spain. Though his family had a tumultuous ancestry, several of his relatives became priests — even two popes – and sisters, often leaders of their abbeys.… Read More

St. Pacific of San Severino

Pacificus Bruni never really got to know his parents, Antonio and Mariangela, both of whom died when he was three years old. He was born in 1653 in Severino and was raised by his uncle from age three until seventeen,… Read More

St. Hildegard von Bingen

Hildegard was born the tenth child of a noble family at Bockelheim, Germany, in 1098. She was dedicated to the Lord, and grew up with a deep faith. Hildegard was attracted to the ascetic life and frequently visited her aunt,… Read More

Sts. Hyacinthus and Protus (Martyrs)

They were brothers in many ways: brothers by birth, brothers in the Lord and in ministry in the house of St. Philip in Rome, and brothers as they died together, burned for their faith as very early martyrs in the… Read More

Blessed Thomas Tsugi, martyr

Thomas Tsugi was born around the year 1571 in Japan, to a wealthy family of Japanese nobility. Educated by the priests of the Society of Jesus at Arima, he joined the order while quite young, around 1588. As a Jesuit,… Read More

Blessed Bertrand of Garrigues, O.P.

Bertrand was only about thirty-five years old when he died, but he had lived a full, active, devout, missionary life alongside and in the newly-founded order of his good friend St. Dominic.
Born around 1195 in or near Garrigue in… Read More

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