Maura was born in the ninth century at Troyes in Champagne. A very prayerful child, she was able through her example and fervent prayers to convert her entire family to Christ.
Throughout her life, this virgin remained devoted to prayer and…

November 7th, 2009 by Saints Editor
Maura was born in the ninth century at Troyes in Champagne. A very prayerful child, she was able through her example and fervent prayers to convert her entire family to Christ.
Throughout her life, this virgin remained devoted to prayer and…
November 6th, 2009 by Saints Editor
Unfortunately, there is little reliable information about St. Leonard. Some sources state that he was a Frank courtier who was converted by St. Remigius. It is also said that he refused the offer of a see from his godfather, King Clovis I,…
November 5th, 2009 by Saints Editor
The Church venerates the sanctity of Sylvia and Gordian, the parents of Pope Saint Gregory the Great, as well as his two aunts, Tarsilla and Emiliana. St. Sylvia, who was a native of Sicily, and St. Gordian who was from the…
November 4th, 2009 by Saints Editor
Charles was the son of Count Gilbert Borromeo and Margaret Medici, sister of Pope Pius IV. He was born at the family castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore, Italy, on October 2. He received the clerical tonsure when he was…
November 3rd, 2009 by Saints Editor
On May 16, 1962, Pope John XXIII, in a ceremony at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome, made Martin de Porres the first black American saint. Martin was born on December 9, 1579, in Lima, Peru, the illegitimate son of Don…
November 2nd, 2009 by Saints Editor
Since the eleventh century, the Feast of All Souls has been celebrated for deceased Christians that they might "rest in peace." Catholics believe, as we recite in the Creed, in the "communion of saints."
In the Feast of All Saints and…
November 1st, 2009 by Saints Editor
Today is the Feast of All Saints, which is celebrated every November 1. By the fourth century, this Feast of All Martyrs, as it was then known, was celebrated on May 13. The words "martyr" and "saint" originally meant basically…
October 31st, 2009 by Saints Editor
Wolfgang was born in Swabia, Germany in 930 A.D. He studied at Reichenau under the Benedictines and at Wurzburg before serving as a teacher in the cathedral school of Trier. He soon entered the Benedictines at Einsiedeln in 964 and…
October 30th, 2009 by Karen Lynn Ford
Jesuit Doorkeeper and Mystic
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez was born in Segovia, Spain, on July 25, 1532 and died October 31, 1617. He was the son of a wealthy wool merchant who took over the family business after his father’s death. He…
October 29th, 2009 by Lisa Wheeler
One of the lesser-known Church Fathers, Serapion lived around the latter part of the second century. He was a contemporary of St. Jerome and much admired for his teachings on Scripture. There is not much that remains of his writings,…