St. John the Apostle
St. John the Apostle St. John, Apostle and Evangelist St. John the Apostle, the son of Zebedee and Salome, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. John was called….
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St. Matthew
St. Matthew Little is known about St. Matthew, except that he was the son of Alpheus, and he was likely born in Galilee. He worked as a tax collector, which….
St. Pope John Paul II
St. Pope John Paul II Karol J. Wojtyla, known as St. Pope John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in Wadowice, a small city….
St. John Bosco
St. John Bosco St. John Bosco, also known as Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco and Don Bosco, was born in Becchi, Italy, on August 16, 1815. His birth came just after the….
St. Gianna Beretta Molla
St. Gianna Beretta Molla St. Gianna Beretta Molla was an Italian pediatrician born in Magenta in the Kingdom of Italy on October 4, 1922. She was the tenth of thirteen….
St. Katharine Drexel
St. Katharine Drexel St. Katharine Drexel is the second American-born saint to be canonized by the Catholic Church. This amazing woman was an heiress to a large bequest who became….
St. Luke
St. Luke Luke, the writer of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, has been identified with St. Paul’s “Luke, the beloved physician” (Colossians 4:14). We know few other….
St. Blaise
St. Blaise St. Blaise was the bishop of Sebastea and a doctor. The first known record of the saint’s life comes from the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus, where he….
St. Gemma Galgani
St. Gemma Galgani St. Gemma Galgani, also known as the Flower of Lucca, was an Italian mystic often referred to as the “Daughter of Passion,” for her intense replication of….
St. Benedict
St. Benedict St. Benedict is believed to have been born around 480, as the son to a Roman noble of Norcia and the twin to his sister, Scholastica. In the….