- Joan Of Arc
Joan of Arc, or Jeanne d'Arc in French, (1412 - May 30, 1431) is a 15th century national heroine of France. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized as a saint in 1920. Joan asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. The uncrowned King Charles VII sent her to the siege at Orléans as part of a relief mission. - Father Damien
Father Damien, also Blessed Damien of Molokai and born Joseph de Veuster, was a Roman Catholic priest from Belgium and member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, a missionary religious order. Damien is most noted for his extreme devotion to caring and ministering to people with what was then widely known as leprosy, forced by government-sanctioned medical segregation, … - Thomas More
Thomas More Thomas More Thomas More had an education suited to a son of a gentleman, and seemed destined for the legal career mapped out by his father. Although the future held much promise for him, More was unsure of the direction he wanted his life to take. He considered becoming a priest but decided not to enter the Church because of his burning desire to have a family. - John Bosco
Saint Don Bosco, born Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco, and known in English as John Bosco (August 16 1815 - January 31 1888), was an Italian Catholic priest, educator and recognized pedagogue, who put into practice the dogma of his religion, employing teaching methods based on love rather than punishment. He placed his works under the protection of Francis de Sales; thus his followers styled themselves the Salesian Society. - Vincent de Paul
Saint Vincent de Paul (April 24, 1581 - September 27, 1660) was born at Pouy, Landes, Gascony, France to a peasant family. His feast was formerly kept on July 19, but is now observed on September 27 - the day of his death. He studied humanities at Dax with the Cordeliers and he graduated in theology at Toulouse. Vincent de Paul was ordained in 1600, remaining in Toulouse until he went to Marseille for an inheritance. - Edith Stein
Edith Stein (October 12, 1891 - August 9, 1942) was a philosopher, a Carmelite nun, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church, who died at Auschwitz. In 1922, she converted to Christianity, was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church and was received into the Discalced Carmelite Order in 1934. She was canonized as Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (her Carmelite monastic name) by Pope John Paul II in 1998; however, she is still often referred to, … - Martin de Porres
Saint Martín de Porres was a Dominican friar who was beatified in 1837 by Pope Gregory XVI and canonized on May 6 1962 by Pope John XXIII. Martin was born in Lima, Peru, as the illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a young freed slave woman, possibly Afro-Peruvian, born in Panama. He had a sister Juana born in 1581. He grew up in poverty, and at the age of 11 was taken in by the Dominicans as a servant boy. As his duties grew he was promoted to almoner, … - Pio Of Pietrelcina
Francesco Forgione (May 25 1887 - September 23 1968), canonized Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, was an Italian priest. He was given the name Pio when he joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, and was popularly known as Padre Pio after his ordination to the priesthood. He became famous not only for his piety, but for alleged supernatural events which became attached to him. - Michael J. McGivney
Father Michael J. McGivney (August 12, 1852 - August 14, 1890) was a Roman Catholic priest and founder of the Knights of Columbus. He was the son of Irish immigrants. Father McGivney entered St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore, Maryland in 1873, but had to leave the seminary and return home to help finish raising his siblings, due to the death of his father. He later returned to the seminary and was ordained a priest on December 22, 1877, … - Josemaría Escrivá
Saint Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (also known as Jose María or Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás, born José María Mariano Escriba Albás) was a Spanish Catholic priest and founder of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei, popularly, "Opus Dei". He was canonized in a controversial process by Pope John Paul II, … - Bernadette Soubirous
Saint Bernadette, born Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (January 7 1844 - April 16 1879), was a shepherd girl from the town of Lourdes in southern France. Her real Occitan name is Maria Bernada Soubirous, aka Bernadeta (little Bernada). From February to July 1858, she reported eighteen apparitions of "a Lady." Despite initial skepticism from the Roman Catholic Church, … - Gianna Beretta Molla
Saint Gianna Beretta Molla (October 4, 1922 - April 28, 1962) was an Italian pediatrician, wife and mother who is best known for refusing both an abortion and a hysterectomy when she was pregnant with her fourth child, despite warnings that continuing with the pregnancy could result in her death. She was canonized as a saint of the Catholic Church in 2004. - Dominic Savio
Dominic Savio (Italian: "Domenico Savio"; April 2, 1842 - March 9, 1857)) was an Italian adolescent student of John Bosco. He was studying to be a priest when he became ill and died, possibly from pleurisy. His teacher had very high regard for his student, and wrote a biography of his young student, "The Life of Dominic Savio". This volume, along with other accounts of him, were critical factors in his cause for sainthood. - Benedict Of Nursia
Saint Benedict of Nursia was an Italian saint, the founder of the Benedictine order. Benedict founded twelve monasteries, the best known of which was his first monastery at Monte Cassino in the mountains of southern Italy. The monastery at Monte Cassino was the first Benedictine monastery. Benedict wrote a set of rules governing his monks, the Rule of Saint Benedict, which was heavily influenced by the writings of Saint John Cassian (ca. - Mother Maria
Mother Maria, born "Elizaveta Yurievna Pilenko" (Елизавета Юрьевна Пиленко), "Kuzmina-Karavayeva" (Кузьмина-Караваева) by her first marriage, "Skobtsova" (Скобцова) by her second marriage, was a Russian noble lady, poetess, nun, and member of the French Resistance movement during World War II. She died in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. - John Francis Regis
John Francois Regis S.J. (31 January 1597 - December 30, 1640) was a French preacher recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. He was born in Font-Couverte, Narbonne, Languedoc, France, and educated as a Jesuit. He was ordained a priest at the age of thirty-one. He spent much of his life preaching to the poor in Huguenot-controlled areas of France. His preaching style was said to have been simple and direct, and appealed to the uneducated peasantry. - Marianne Cope
Mother Marianne Cope, was a Franciscan nun of the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis, a religious order of the Roman Catholic Church. Born in Heppenheim (Germany) and entered religious life in Syracuse, New York, she worked, lived and died for the lepers on the island of Moloka‘i in Hawai‘i. She was not herself inflicted by the disease, a fact arguably declared to be miraculous considering her close contact with the patients over the course of several years, … - Catherine Doherty
Servant of God Catherine Doherty (August 15 1896-December 14 1985) was a social activist and foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate. A pioneer of social justice and a renowned national speaker, Catherine was also a prolific writer of hundreds of articles, best-selling author of dozens of books, and a dedicated wife and mother. Her cause for canonization as a saint is under consideration by the Catholic Church. - John Cantius
Saint John Cantius was a renowned Polish Scholastic and theologian. In English he is also known as John of Kanty or John of Kenti. He was born in Kęty, a small town near Oświęcim, in the diocese of Kraków, Poland, to Stanisław and Anna Kanty. His parents enrolled him in the Kraków Academy, where he eventually graduated as a bachelor, master, and doctor. He was also ordained a priest. - George Preca
Saint George Preca (in Maltese: San Ġorġ Preca was a Maltese priest who founded the Society of Christian Doctrine, a society of lay catechists. In Malta, he is affectionately known as "Dun Ġorġ" and is popularly referred to as the "Second Apostle of Malta," after Saint Paul of Tarsus. He was canonized on 3 June 2007. - Thérèse de Lisieux
Saint Thérèse de Lisieux, or more properly Sainte Thérèse de l'Enfant-Jésus et de la Sainte Face ("Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and of the Holy Face"), born Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin, was a Roman Catholic nun who was canonized as a saint, and is recognized as a Doctor of the Church. She is also known by many as "The Little Flower of Jesus." - Thomas Of Celano
Thomas of Celano (Italian: "Tommaso da Celano"; c. 1200 - c. 1260-1270) was an Italian friar of the Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor) was a poet and the author of three hagiographies about Saint Francis of Assisi. Thomas was from Celano in Abruzzo. The first of his works on Francis was "Vita prima" ("First Life"), a work on the saint's early life, commissioned by Pope Gregory XI in 1228 at the time Francis's canonization. - Margaret Of Castello
Margaret of Castello is a patron of the poor, crippled, and unwanted in the Roman Catholic Church. She was born blind, lame, deformed, hunchbacked and a midget, into a family of nobles in the castle of Metola, in southeast of Florence. As a child, her parents imprisoned her for 14 years so no one would see her, though she could attend Mass and receive the sacraments. Her parents took her to a shrine to pray for a cure for her birth defects. - Edmund Arrowsmith
Saint Edmund Arrowsmith is one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. Edmund was the son of Robert Arrowsmith, a farmer, and was born at Haydock, Lancashire, England. He was baptized Brian, but always used his Confirmation name of Edmund. The family was constantly harassed for its adherence to Roman Catholism, and in 1605 Edmund left England and went to Douai to study for the priesthood. He was forced to quit due to ill health. - Angela Merici
Saint Angela Merici (1474? - 1540) was an Italian religious leader and saint born in Desenzano del Garda, Brescia, Lombardy. She founded the Order of Ursulines in 1535 in Brescia. Merici was beatified in 1768 by Clement XIII and canonized in 1807 by Pius VII. She is buried in the Church of St. Afra at Brescia and her Catholic feast day is January 27. Before the revision of the calendar of saints following the Second Vatican Council, her feast day was May 31, … - Seraphim Rose
Seraphim Rose, born Eugene Dennis Rose (August 13, 1934-September 2, 1982), was a hieromonk or priest-monk of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia in the United States, whose writings have helped spread Orthodox Christianity throughout modern America and the West. Although not formally canonized, he is venerated by some Orthodox Christians as a saint in iconography, liturgy, and prayer. - Arnold Janssen
Saint Arnold Janssen was a Roman Catholic priest best known for founding the mission Society of the Divine Word, the members of which are known as "Divine Word Missionaries", and two congregations for women. Janssen was born in Goch, Germany, near the Dutch border. He was ordained a priest in 1861. Janssen purchased land in Steyl (Netherlands) to begin his seminary, dedicated in 1875 as "St. Michael the Archangel Mission House". - Andrew Kim Taegon
St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon was Korea's first Roman Catholic priest. In the early 17th century, Roman Catholicism in Korea was primarily introduced by laypeople. It wasn't until the mid-1800s that Korea saw its first missionaries arrive only to find out that the people there were already practicing Christianity. - Jane Frances de Chantal
Jane Frances de Chantal was born in Dijon, France. The mother of six children (three died shortly after thay were born), she was widowed at the age of 28. She met Saint Francis de Sales when he preached at the Sainte Chapelle in Dijon and was inspired to start a Catholic religious order for women, the Congregation of the Visitation. She died at the Visitation Convent, one of the convents she founded, in Moulins and was buried in Annecy. - Canadian Martyrs
The Canadian Martyrs, also known as the North American Martyrs, were eight Jesuit missionaries from Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, who were martyred in the 17th century in Canada and Upstate New York. The Martyrs are St. Jean de Brébeuf (1649), St. Noël Chabanel (1649), St. Antoine Daniel (1648), St. Charles Garnier (1649), St. René Goupil (1642), St. Isaac Jogues (1646), St. Jean de Lalande (1646), and St. Gabriel Lallemant (1649). - Agnes Of Montepulciano
Saint Agnes of Montepulciano (1268 – 1317) was born into a noble family in Gracciano, a small village near Montepulciano in Tuscany, Italy where, at the age of nine she entered the monastery. Some four years later the administration of the castle of Proceno, a fief of Orvieto, invited the nuns of Montepulciano to send some of their sisters to Proceno to found a new monastery. In 1288 Agnes, despite her youth, was selected as prioress. - Ulrich Of Augsburg
Saint Ulrich, sometimes spelled Uodalric or Odalrici, was Bishop of Augsburg and a leader of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. He was the first saint to be canonized. - Walter Ciszek
Rev. Walter Ciszek, S.J. (November 11 1904-December 8, 1984) was a Polish-American Jesuit priest held by the Soviet Union for 23 years, between 1941 and 1963. Fifteen of these years were spent in confinement and hard labor in the GULAG, including five in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison. He was released and returned to the United States in 1963, after which he wrote several books and served as a spiritual director. - Catherine Of Bologna
Saint Catherine of Bologna (8 September 1413 - 9 March 1463) was an Italian saint. The patron saint of artists and temptations, she was an aristocratic Bolognese woman raised in the court of Bologna. She was the author of "Treatise on the Seven Spiritual Weapons". She was venerated for nearly three centuries in her native Bologna before being formally canonized in 1712. Her feast day is March 9. She joined the Benedictine convent in Ferrara in the late 1420s. - Papias
Papias (working in the 1st half of the 2nd century) was one of the early leaders of the Christian church, canonized as a saint. Eusebius calls him "Bishop of Hierapolis" (modern Pamukkale, Turkey) which is 22km from Laodicea and near Colossae (see "Col". 4:13), in the Lycus river valley in Phrygia, Asia Minor, not to be confused with the Hierapolis of Syria. - Richard Of Chichester
Saint Richard of Chichester (also known as Richard de Wych or variations thereof) (Droitwich, 1197 - 1253 in Dover) is a saint (canonized 1262) who was Bishop of Chichester. His shrine in Chichester Cathedral was a richly-decorated centre of pilgrimage which was destroyed in 1538. He was born in the town of Wyche (modern Droitwich) and was an orphan. He took up farming his elder brother's estates, and, according to legend, … - Óscar Romero
Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez, commonly known as Monseñor Romero, was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church in El Salvador. He later became the eighth Bishop and fourth Archbishop of San Salvador, succeeding the long-reigning Luis Chávez y González. As archbishop, he witnessed ongoing violations of human rights and started a group which spoke out to the poor and also victims of the country's civil war. - Peter The Venerable
Peter the Venerable (about 1092 - December 25, 1156 in Cluny, France), also known as Peter of Montboissier, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Cluny, born to Blessed Raingarde in Auvergne, France. He has been honored as a saint but has never been formally canonized. - Saint Malachy
St. Malachy was the appointed Archbishop of Armagh, to whom were attributed several miracles and a vision of the identity of the last 112 Popes (see Prophecy of the Popes). He was canonized by Pope Clement III, on July 6, 1199. St. Malachy, whose family name was O'Morgair, was born in Armagh in 1094. St. Bernard describes him as having noble birth. He was baptized Maelmhaedhoc (a name which has been Latinized as Malachy) and was trained under Imhar O'Hagan, … - Teresa Of The Andes
Saint Teresa of the Andes, "Teresa de Jesús "de los Andes," (July 13 1900 – April 12 1920) was a Chilean nun canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. She was born as Juana Fernández del Solar in Santiago, Chile: her nickname was "Juanita". She was the daughter of an upper class family.
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