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Saint John Gualbert

Born in Florence, Italy, around the year 993, John was born into a noble family, and led a predictably frivolous life as a youth, being concerned only with the pursuit of vain amusements and romant...

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The First Holy Martyrs of Rome

These “proto-martyrs” of Rome were the first Christians persecuted en masse by the Emperor Nero in the year 64, before the martyrdom of Saints Peter and Paul. Nero was widely believed to...

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Saints Peter and Paul
Saint William of Vercelli
Saint Joseph Cafasso
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga
Saint Alban
Saint Albert Chmielowski
Saint Lutgardis

Saint Germaine Cousin

June 15 is the feast day of St. Germaine Cousin, a simple and pious young girl who lived in Pibrac, France in the late 1500s. Germaine was born in 1579 to poor parents. Her father was a farmer, and...

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