St. Gianna Molla – A mother who chose life for her unborn child
This married saint and pediatric specialist gave up her life so her daughter could live
Saint of the Month
Saint Manuel Míguez González - March 8
Early in his priesthood, Manuel (who took the religious name Faustino of the Inc...
From slavery to joy and hopefulness
Feast Day: Feb. 8
Kidnapped. Beaten. Sold. So traumatized she forgot he...
St. Nicholas Feast day: Dec. 6
Jolly Old St. Nicholas evokes a cheerful image of an elderly, bearded man, kindl...
St. Leo the Great: Feast Day: Nov. 10
A man of peace. A pastoral pope and a preacher. A staunch defender of doctrine. ...
Saint Francis of Assisi Repairing God’s house
Feast day: Oct. 4
Born into a life of privilege in the 12th century, Francis ...
Pope St. Gregory the Great - Sept. 3
“They are not Angles, but angels. They are rightly named, for their faces are an...
St. Pius X
Feast Day: Aug. 21
When St. Pius X was named pope in 1903, he used the words ...
Mother Lupita – patron saint of nurses
Feast Day: June 24
Saint Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala, known as Mother Lupit...
St. Joan of Arc, patron saint of France
Feast Day: May 30
Thanks to movies, books and popular legend, St. Joan of Arc...
St. Anselm of Canterbury
Feast Day: April 21
St. Anselm, a Benedictine monk who lived during the 11th ...
Saint María Josefa of the Heart of Jesus
Feast Day - March 20
Saint María Josefa felt called to religious life at a yo...
St. Polycarp, first heard the Gospel from Jesus' apostles
Feast Day: February 23
As the bishop of Smyrna in the second century, St. Pol...
St. Virginia Centurione Bracelli
Virginia Centurione, born into a noble family in Genoa, Italy, in 1587, was forc...
St. Charles Borromeo, A tireless reformer
Feast Day: November 4
Born amidst the turmoil of the Protestant Reformation a...
St. Faustina - Secretary of Divine Mercy
Born Helena Kowalska in the small Polish town of Lodz, St. Faustina was one of 1...
St. Padre Pio: Leading others to God’s healing mercy
Feast day: September 23
Devoted to Christ from his childhood in Italy, where ...
Lily of the Mohawks, Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Feast Day July 14
Tekakwitha, born in 1656 to a Christian Algonquin mother an...
St. Thomas More: A man for all seasons
Feast Day: June 22
St. Thomas More was an educated man – a lawyer, husba...
St. Damien of Molokai “Leper priest” in Hawaii
Feast Day: May 10
Born into a poor, Belgian farming family in 1840, Joseph De...
Advocate of Peace, Advisors to Popes: Catherine of Siena
Feast Day: April 29
On the feast of the Annunciation, 1347, Jacopo and Lapa B...
St. Katharine Drexel, An American Missionary
Feast Day: March 3
St. Katharine Drexel was born to a rich and charitable fam...
The Humble Doorkeeper: St. Andre Bessette
Feast Day: January 7th
St. André was born Alfred Bessette in Quebec in 1845. ...
Break with sin and follow Christ: St. Fabiola
St. Fabiola (d. 399/400) was a Roman physician who divorced her first husband du...
Canonization of St. Junipero Serra
On Sept. 23, 2015, Pope Francis canonized Junípero Serra at the Basilica of the ...