Saint Agostina Petrantoni

Feast: 13 de novembro

Saint Agostina Petrantoni, also known as Agostina Pietrantoni or by her birth name Livia Petrantoni, was born on March 27, 1864, in Pozzaglia Sabina, Rieti, Italy. She was the daughter of Francesco...

Saint Alodia of Huesca

Feast: 22 de outubro

Saint Alodia of Huesca, also known as Alodia of Spain, was born in Huesca, Spain, to a Muslim father and a Christian mother. She was one of two sisters, the other being Saint Nunilo of Huesca. Both...

Saint Angela of Foligno

Feast: 4 de janeiro

Saint Angela of Foligno, also known as the Mistress of Theologians, was born in 1248 in Foligno, Umbria, Italy. She was born into a wealthy non-Christian family and led a life of indulgence and sin...

Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

Feast: 16 de abril

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 Catherine of Genoa

Feast: 15 de setembro

Saint Catherine of Genoa, born Catherine Fieschi into the noble family of Jacopo Fieschi and Francesca di Negro in Genoa, Italy, was a descendant of the papal lineage of Pope Innocent V and Pope...

Saint Catherine of Siena

Feast: 29 de abril

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 Clelia Barbieri

Feast: 13 de julho

Saint Clelia Barbieri, also known as Cloelia Barbieri, was born on February 13, 1847, in Bundrie di San Giovanni, Persiceto, Italy. From an early age, she showed little interest in worldly pursuits...

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

Feast: 4 de janeiro

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, also known as Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, or Mother Seton, was born on August 28, 1774, in New York City, USA. She came from a wealthy and influential Episcopalian family,...

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary

Feast: 17 de novembro

Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, also known as Elizabeth of Thuringia, Elisabeth, and Elisabetta, was a princess and the daughter of King Andrew of Hungary. Born in 1207 in Presburg, Hungary, she grew up...

Saint Frances of Rome

Feast: 9 de março

Saint Frances of Rome, also known as Franziske av Rome or Francesca Bussa de’ Leoni, was born in Rome, Italy in 1384 to the noble Bussa family. Her parents, Paul Bussa and Jacobella de’ Roffredeschi,...

Saint Jacinta Marto

Feast: 20 de fevereiro

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 Joan of Arc

Feast: 30 de maio

Saint Joan of Arc, also known as Jean D'arc, Jeanne d'Arc, Jehanne Darc, and the Maid of Orleans, was born on January 6, 1412, in Greux-Domremy, Lorraine, France. She was the daughter of Jacques...

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Feast: 17 de abril

Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, also known as Catherine Tekakwitha, Lily of the Mohawks, Protectress of Canada, Tegakouita, and Tegakwitha, was born in 1656 in Osserneon (Auriesville), modern New York, USA....

Saint Margaret of Cortona

Feast: 22 de fevereiro

Saint Margaret of Cortona, also known as Margherita, was born in 1247 in Loviano, Tuscany, Italy, to a farmer's family. Unfortunately, her mother passed away when she was just seven years old,...

Saint Marguerite Dyouville

Feast: 23 de dezembro

Saint Marguerite Dyouville, also known as Mary Margaret Dufrost de Lajemmarais d’Youville, was born on October 15, 1701, in Varennes, Quebec, Canada. She was the eldest of six children born to...

Saint Mary Magdalen

Feast: 22 de julho

Saint Mary Magdalen, also known as Maria Maddalena, Maria Magdalena, Mary Magdalene, or the Sinner, is one of the most iconic figures in Christian history. Although very little is known about her,...

Saint Matilda of Saxony

Feast: 14 de março

Saint Matilda of Saxony, also known as Matilda of Germany or Matilda of Ringelheim, was born around 895 in Engern, Westphalia, Germany. She was the daughter of Count Dietrich of Westphalia and...

Saint Nunilo of Huesca

Feast: 22 de outubro

Saint Nunilo of Huesca, also known as Nunilone, was born in Huesca, Spain, to a Muslim father and a Christian mother. She and her sister, Saint Alodia of Huesca, were raised in the Christian faith....

Saint Rose of Lima

Feast: 23 de agosto

Saint Rose of Lima, also known as Isabel, was born on April 20, 1586, in Lima, Peru. She was the daughter of Spanish immigrants who had settled in the New World. From a young age, Rose demonstrated...

Saint Teresa of Ávila

Feast: 15 de outubro

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 Zedislava Berka

Feast: 1 de janeiro

Saint Zedislava Berka, also known as Zdislava Berka, Zedislava Berkiana, and Zdislava of Lemberk, was born around 1220 in the diocese of Križanov, Ždár nad Sázavou, Vysocina kraj, which is in...

Saint Zita of Lucca

Feast: 27 de abril

Saint Zita of Lucca, also known as Cita, Sita, Citha, or Sitha, was born in 1218 in Bozzanello, Monte Sagrate, Tuscany, Italy. She was born into a very poor but devoutly religious family, and from a...