Our Lady of Lourdes

Feast: February 11

Our Lady of Lourdes, also known as Notre-Dame de Lourdes, is a title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in honor of her apparitions to Saint Bernadette Soubiroux in Lourdes, France. These apparitions...

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 Angela Merici

Feast: January 27

Saint Angela Merici, born on March 21, 1474, in Desenzano, Lake Garda, Italy, was a devout Franciscan tertiary who went on to establish the Institute of Saint Ursula, also known as the Ursuline...

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 Bilhild

Feast: November 27

Saint Bilhild, also known as Bilhildis or Bililde, was born around the year 630 near Würzburg, Germany. She hailed from a noble family and entered into a marriage with the Duke of Thuringia....

Saint Catherine Del Ricci

Feast: February 2

Saint Catherine de Ricci, also known as Catherine Del Ricci, was born as Alessandra Lucrezia Romola de’ Ricci on April 23, 1522, in Florence, Italy. She was born into the patrician class, but...

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 Gertrude of Nivelles

Feast: March 17

Saint Gertrude of Nivelles, also known as Gertrude of Landen, was born in the year 626 in the town of Landen, Belgium. She was the younger daughter of Saint Pepin of Landen, a nobleman, and Saint Ida...

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 Hilary of Poitiers

Feast: January 13

Saint Hilary of Poitiers, Bishop and Doctor of the Church, was born into a wealthy pagan noble family in Poitiers, Gaul. After marrying and raising children—including the saintly Abra—he devoted...

Saint Hugh of Lincoln

Feast: November 17

Saint Hugh of Lincoln, also known as Hugh of Avalon, Hugh of Burgundy, and Hew, was born in 1135 at Avalon Castle in Burgundy, France. He was the son of William, Lord of Avalon, and his mother Anna...

Saint Jacinta Marto

Feast: February 20

Saint Jacinta Marto, also known as simply "Jacinta," was a young visionary who experienced the apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. Born on March 11, 1910, in...

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 Julia Billiart

Feast: April 8

Saint Julia Billiart, also known as Julia of Billiart, was born on July 12, 1751, in Cuvilly, a small village in Picardy, France. She was the sixth of seven children born to Jean-François Billiart...

Saint Juliana Falconieri

Feast: June 19

Saint Juliana Falconieri, also known as Giuliana Falconieri, was born in 1270 in Florence, Italy. She was the only child of a wealthy noble family, Chiarissimo and Riguirdata Falconieri, and was the...

Saint Juliana of Nicomedia

Feast: February 16

Saint Juliana of Nicomedia, also known as Juliana of Cumae, was a brave and devout Christian martyr during the early fourth century AD. She was born into a pagan noble family in Nicomedia, which is...

Saint Louis XI

Feast: August 25

Saint Louis IX, also known as Louis Capet and the Most Christian King, was born on 25 April 1214 in Poissy, France. He was the son of King Louis VIII and Blanche of Castile. At the age of eleven,...

Saint Louise De Marillac

Feast: March 15

Saint Louise de Marillac, also known as Louise de Marillac Le Gras, was born on August 12, 1591, in Meux, France. From a young age, she felt called to religious life but was unable to find a convent...

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 Paula Frassinetti

Feast: June 11

Saint Paula Frassinetti, also known as Paola Frassinetti, was born on 3 March 1809 in Genoa, Italy. She was the only daughter of John and Angela Frassinetti, and was raised in a devoutly Catholic...

Saint Peregrine Laziosi

Feast: May 1

Saint Peregrine Laziosi, also known as Peregrinus Laziosi, Pellegrino Laziosi, Peregrinus Latiosi, or Pellegrino Latiosi, was born in Forli, Italy, in 1260. He came from a wealthy family and led a...

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 Rita of Cascia

Feast: May 22

Saint Rita of Cascia, also known as Margarita of Cascia and the "Saint of the Impossible," was born in 1386 in Roccaparena, Umbria, Italy. She was the daughter of Antonio and Amata Lotti, who were...

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 Serapion of Algiers

Feast: November 14

Saint Serapion of Algiers, also known as Serapion of England, was born around 1179 in London, England. As a young boy, he accompanied his father in the Third Crusade, and in 1191, he was present at...

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...