Saint of the day

Most of the saints are remembered for some outstanding virtue or devotion which they practiced, but Jerome is frequently recognized...

Michael, Hebrew Mikhaʾel, Arabic Mīkāl or Mīkhāʾīl, also called St. Michael the Archangel, in the Bible and in the Qurʾān (as Mīkāl), one of the archangels. He is repeatedly depicted as the...

He was born on April 24, 1581, in a village called Pouy in Gascony in France. He was ordained a...

n one of the largest such ceremonies in history, Pope John Paul II canonized Padre Pio of Pietrelcina on June...

Lorenzo was born in Manila of a Chinese father and a Filipino mother, both Christians. Thus he learned Chinese and...

Matthew was a Jew who worked for the occupying Roman forces, collecting taxes from other Jews. The Romans were not...

Little is known about the life of Januarius. He is believed to have been martyred in the Emperor Diocletian’s persecution...

Joseph of Cupertino is most famous for levitating at prayer. Already as a child, Joseph showed a fondness for prayer....

Saint Cornelius There was no pope for 14 months after the martyrdom of Saint Fabian because of the intensity of the...

For a while there were two feasts in honor of the Sorrowful Mother: one going back to the 15th century,...