Pope Saint Gregory The Great

Feast: September 3

Pope Saint Gregory the Great, also known as Gregory I, Gregory Dialogos, Gregory the Dialogist, Father of the Fathers, and Gregorius I Magnus, was born around the year 540 in Rome, Italy. He came...

Saint Albert The Great

Feast: November 15

Saint Albert The Great, also known as Albert of Lauingen, Albertus Magnus, Doctor Expertus, and Doctor Universalis, was born in 1206 in Lauingen an der Donau, Swabia, which is part of modern-day...

Saint Ambrose of Milan

Feast: December 7

Saint Ambrose of Milan, also known as Ambreuil, Ambrogio, Ambroise, Ambrosius, Ambrun, Embrun, and The Honey Tongued Doctor, was born to the Roman nobility in Trier, southern Gaul (modern Germany)...

Saint Benedict of Nursia

Feast: July 11

Saint Benedict of Nursia, also known as Benedict of Narsia, Benedict of Norsia, and Benedetto da Norcia, was a prominent figure in Catholicism as the founder of Western Monasticism. Born to the Roman...

Saint Cassian of Imola

Feast: August 13

Saint Cassian of Imola, also known as Cassiano, was a renowned schoolmaster at Imola, Italy during the early 4th century. He was known for his expertise in teaching handwriting, but he also took...

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Feast: November 25

Saint Catherine of Alexandria, also known as Katherine of Alexandria, Ekaterina of Alexandria, and Katharina von Alexandrien, was born into a noble family. She was highly educated in the areas of...

Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Feast: February 27

Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows, also known as Francesco Possenti, was born on 1 March 1838 in Assisi, Italy. He was one of thirteen children in a devout Catholic family. In his youth, Gabriel...

Saint Gemma Galgani

Feast: April 11

Saint Gemma Galgani, also known as the Flower of Lucca, was born on 12 March 1878 in Borgo Nuovo di Camigliano, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy. She was the eldest daughter of a poor pharmacist, but her life...

Saint Isidore of Seville

Feast: April 4

Saint Isidore of Seville, also known as Isidore the Bishop and the Schoolmaster of the Middle Ages, was born around 560 in Cartagena, Spain. He came from a pious family, as his parents Severianus and...

Saint Jerome

Feast: September 30

Saint Jerome, also known as Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronius, Girolamo, Hieronymus, and Jerom, was born in the year 347 in Strido, Dalmatia. He belonged to a wealthy pagan family and spent his youth in...

Saint Joseph Calasanz

Feast: August 25

Saint Joseph Calasanz, also known as Joseph Calasanctius, Joseph of Our Lady, Joseph Calsanza, and José de Calasanz, was born on September 11, 1556, in his family's castle in Peralta, Barbastro,...

Saint Joseph of Cupertino

Feast: September 18

Saint Joseph of Cupertino, also known as Giuseppe da Copertino, Joseph Desa, Joseph of Copertino, the Flying Friar, and the Gaper, was born on June 17, 1603, in Cupertino, in the kingdom of Naples,...

Saint Lawrence of Rome

Feast: August 10

Saint Lawrence of Rome, also known as Laurence, Laurentius, Lorenço, and Lorenzo, was a third-century archdeacon of Rome. He was a devout Christian who dedicated his life to caring for the poor, the...