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Seven Founders of the Servite Order

In 1240, seven noblemen of Florence mutually decided to withdraw from the city to a solitary place for prayer and direct service of God. Their initial difficulty was ...

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Saint Paul Miki and Companions

During the 16th century, the Catholic faith reached Japan by the efforts of the Jesuit missionary Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552). Jesuit outreach to the Japanese continued after his death, and ar...

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Saint Joseph of Leonissa
Saint Blaise
Saint Brigid of Ireland
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Saint Angela Merici
Saint Francis de Sales
Saint Marianne Cope

Saint Agnes

Saint Agnes was born into a wealthy family during the last decade of the third century and lived in Rome during the last major persecution of the early Church under the Emperor Diocletian. Though h...

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