Saint Alphonsa of India

Feast: July 28

Saint Alphonsa of India, also known as Alphonsa Muttathupadathu, Alphonsa of Bharananganam, Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, Anna Muttathupadathu, and Annakutty, was born on 19 August 1910 in...

Saint Arthelais of Benevento

Feast: March 3

Saint Arthelais of Benevento, also known as Artelais, Artellais, Artellaide, or Arthellais, was born in the year 544 in Constantinople. She was the daughter of the prominent Roman imperial proconsul...

Saint Bathilde

Feast: January 30

Saint Bathilde, also known as Baldechilde, Baldhild, Bathild, Bathildes, Bathildis, Batholda, or Bauteur, was born around 630 in England. In her youth, she was tragically kidnapped from her homeland...

Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

Feast: April 16

Saint Bernadette of Lourdes, also known as Bernada, Bernardetta, Bernardette Soubirous, Bernardette, Maria Bernadette, Marie Bernarde, and the Sleeping Saint of Nevers, was born on 7 January 1844 in...

Saint Camillus of Lellis

Feast: July 14

Saint Camillus of Lellis, also known as Camillus de Lellis or Camillo de Lellis, was born on May 25, 1550, in Bucchianico, Abruzzi, in the kingdom of Naples, Italy. He was the son of a military...

Saint Catherine of Siena

Feast: April 29

Saint Catherine of Siena, also known as Caterina Benincasa, Catharine of Siena, or Katharine of Siena, was born on March 25, 1347, in Siena, Tuscany, Italy. She was the youngest of 24 children, and...

Saint Drogo

Feast: April 16

Saint Drogo, also known as Dreux, Drogone, Drugo, or Druon, was born into a noble Flemish family in the year 1105. Unfortunately, tragedy struck his life at an early age when his mother passed away...

Saint Elizabeth of The Trinity

Feast: November 8

Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity, born as Elizabeth Catez on Sunday, July 18, 1880, in a military camp in the diocese of Bourges, France, was the daughter of Captain Joseph Catez and Marie Catez....

Saint Germaine Cousin

Feast: June 15

Saint Germaine Cousin, born to Laurent Cousin, a farm laborer, and Marie Laroche, endured profound hardship from infancy. Her mother died when she was very young, leaving her vulnerable. Suffering...

Saint Gorgonia

Feast: December 9

Saint Gorgonia was the daughter of Saint Gregory of Nazianzen the Elder and Saint Nonna, and the sister of both Saint Gregory of Nazianzen, the great theologian and Doctor of the Church, and Saint...

Saint John of God

Feast: March 8

Saint John of God, also known as Giovanni di Dio, Juan de Dios, and Juan Ciudad, was born on March 8, 1495, in Montemoro Novo, Evora, Portugal. His early life was spent working as a shepherd in the...

Saint Lydwina of Schiedam

Feast: April 14

Saint Lydwina of Schiedam, also known as Liduina, Lidwid, Lidwina, Lijdwine, Ludivine, Lydwid, Lidwyna, and Lydwine, was born on April 18, 1380, in Schiedam, Netherlands. Her father was a poor noble,...

Saint Maria Mazzarello

Feast: May 14

Saint Maria Mazzarello was born to Giuseppe and Maddalena Mazzarello, the eldest of ten children in a mountain farm family. Seven children survived infancy, and Maria learned responsibility as a big...

Saint Mary Ann De Paredes

Feast: May 26

Saint Mary Ann de Paredes, born into the noble Toledo family of Don Girolamo Flores Zenel de Paredes and Doña Mariana...

Saint Mary Magdalen of Pazzi

Feast: May 25

Saint Mary Magdalen of Pazzi, also known as Mary-Magdalen de’Pazzi, was born as Catherine in Florence, Italy, in the year 1566. She came from a devout Catholic family and received a religious...

Saint Philomena

Feast: August 11

Saint Philomena, also known as Filomena, Filumena, Philumena, Philomene, Thaumaturga of the Nineteenth Century, and Wonder Worker of the Nineteenth Century, is a Catholic Saint whose life remains...

Saint Rafqa

Feast: March 23

Saint Rafqa, also known as Rebecca Ar-Rayes, was born on June 29, 1832, in Himlaya, Lebanon, as the daughter and only child of Mourad Saber Shabaq al-Rayes and Rafqa Gemayel. Unfortunately, her...

Saint Romula of Rome

Feast: July 23

Saint Romula of Rome, also known as Romula of Mary Major, was a hermitess who lived near the Church of Mary Major in Rome, Italy. Very little is known about her early life and family background....

Saint Syncletica

Feast: January 5

Saint Syncletica, also known as Sincletica, was a remarkable woman who lived during the fourth century in Alexandria, Egypt. Born into a wealthy and privileged family, she chose to abandon her...

Saint Teresa of The Andes

Feast: April 12

Saint Teresa of the Andes, also known as Juanita Fernandez Solar or Teresa de los Andes, was born on July 13, 1900, in Santiago, Chile, into an upper-class family. From her early adolescence, she...

Saint Teresa of Ávila

Feast: October 15

Saint Teresa of Ávila, also known as Teresa de Ávila, Teresa of Jesus, and Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada, was born on March 28, 1515, in Avila, Castile, Spain. She was born into a noble...

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Feast: October 1

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, also known as Francoise-Marie Thérèse Martin, was born on January 2, 1873, in Alençon, Normandy, France. She was the youngest of five daughters born to Blessed Louis Martin...