Saint of the Day

Saint Scholastica

On Feb. 10, the Catholic Church remembers St. Scholastica, a nun who was the twin sister of St. Benedict, the "father of monasticism" in Western Europe. The siblings were born around 480 to a Roman...

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St. Agatha

One of the Catholic Church's most honored virgin martyrs is St. Agatha, also called Agatha of Sicily. She is thought to have been born into a wealthy and aristocratic family in Catania or Palermo, ...

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Saint Blaise
Presentation of the Lord
Saint Brigid of Ireland
St. John Bosco
St. Gildas the Wise
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Angela Merici

Angela Merici has the double distinction of founding the first of what are now called “secular institutes” and the first teaching order of women in the Church. Born in Desenzano, Italy, ...

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