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St. Hippolytus

Hippolytus was a revered theologian and priest in the early third century. However, he turned against the Church in 217 when Callistus was elected Pope. In 235, he was banished to the Sardinian min...

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Saint Dominic, Saint of the Day, 8th August

Born in old Castile, Spain, Dominic was trained for the priesthood by a priest-uncle, studied the arts and theology, and became a canon of the cathedral at Osma, where there was an attempt to reviv...

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Saint Lydia Purpuraria
Saint Ignatius Loyola

Saint Maxima

St. Maxima was a house servant and nanny to a family of imperial nobility in ancient Rome. She was given responsibility for caring for the family’s son, Ansanus whom she secretly baptized him as a ...

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