The actions of these two influential Jewish leaders give insight into the charismatic power of Jesus...

St. John the Baptist has two feasts in the Liturgical Calendar of the Church. One, in August, celebrates...

St. Augustine was born in Thagaste in Africa of a Berber family. He was brought up a Christian but left...

St. Monica was born in Thagaste, Africa of a Christian Family. Although she was a Christian, her parents...

Bregwin, Bregowine, or Breguivine was a medieval Archbishop of Canterbury. Little is known of his origins...

From Aragon where he was born in 1556, to Rome where he died 92 years later, fortune alternately smiled...

He was born at Cana and brought by the Apostle Philip to meet Jesus. Nothing further is known for certain....

The first canonized saint of the New World has one characteristic of all saints—the suffering of opposition—and...

Pope Pius XII established this feast in 1954. But Mary’s queenship has roots in Scripture. At the Annunciation,...

Bernard was born near Dijon, in France, in 1090, of a noble family. In 1112 he joined the new monastery...

Today’s saint, Ezekiel, was born in Alfaro in Spain on April 9, 1848. He joined the Recollect Congregation...

John was born in Normandy. He was ordained priest and spent many years preaching parish missions. He...

Tradition says Helena brought a woman near death to the discovery of three crosses which was discovered...

Born in 1666, in Anjou, France, Joan worked in the family business—a small shop near a religious shrine—from...

Saint Roch is the patron saint of the sick and invalids. He was born in 1295 to a rich family in Montpellier,...

The Catholic Church teaches as dogma that the Virgin Mary “having completed the course of her earthly...

Our saint today Raymund Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894, in the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian...

Hippolytus was a priest and a learned man, the most important writer of the Church at Rome in the early...

Jane Frances was wife, mother, nun, and a foundress of a religious community. Her mother died when she...

She was born at Assisi and came under the influence of Saint Francis. She left home at the age of 18...

Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the Church of Rome and was executed on 10th August 258, four...

Edith Stein was born from a prominent Jewish family in Breslau, Germany – now Wroclaw, Polad. As a student,...

Dominic was born in old Castile, Spain. He was trained for the priesthood by his uncle-priest, he studied...

Today’s saint was seemed headed for an ordinary life – he was a lawyer, then became a priest who is engaged...

The three Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, tells us the story of the Transfiguration of the...

The Council of Ephesus in 431 formally proclaimed the mother of Jesus as the Mother of God, and the church...

“A man with vision will overcome every obstacles and shall perform deeds that seem to be impossible.”...

Born in La Mure d’Isère, Southeastern France, Peter Julian Eymard’s faith journey drew him from being...

It is commonly believed that if there had been no Arianism, i.e., the denial of the divinity of Jesus,...

St. Alphonsus Ligouri is a moral theologian, he is even declared as the patron of the moral theologians...