Emily de Rodat

1787-1852 FEAST September 19 Described by one French contemporary as “a saint, but a headstrong saint,” Emily was brought up by her grandmother. From the age […]

Our Lady of Sorrows

  FEAST September 15 This feast, a patronage for all the sorrowing, honors Mary’s tribulations as Jesus’s mother. Blessed Henry Suso, a German mystic who lived […]

Jeanne Jugan

1792 – 1879 FEAST August 30 Born in Brittany, in France, Jeanne was four when her fisherman father died. Her mother supported six children as a […]

Maximilian Kolbe

1894 – 1941 FEAST August 14 Raimund Kolbe, born in Russian Poland, was ordained a Franciscan, Maximilian Mary, in Rome. In the 1920s, he reopened a […]

Blessed Franz Jagerstatter

1907 – 1943 FEAST August 9 This Austrian farmer and parish sexton had done his basic training in Hitler’s army in 1940-41, but refused to serve […]

Mary Helen MacKillop

1842 – 1909 FEAST August 8 Mother MacKillop is Australia’s first native-born saint and its patron. The oldest of eight children of Scottish immigrants, Mary began […]

Oswald

604-642 FEAST August 5 St. Oswald won control of Northumbria at battle against a pagan army in 634. The night before the conflict he had constructed […]

Blessed Frederic Jansoone

1838-1916 FEAST August 4 Born in France, Frederic supported his Flemish family after his father’s death, then entered the Franciscans in 1864. Following ordination, he served […]