Saints

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 […]

First century FEAST August 3 Lydia’s name is taken from her place of origin, Thyatira in the province of Lydia (now Turkey). Paul’s first convert in […]

1491-1556 FEAST July 31 Born in his family’s ancestral Basque castle, Inigo Lopez de Loyola was a page in Castile and a soldier wounded in battle […]

First Century FEAST July 12 Veronica does not appear in the Roman Martyrology, the church’s official list of feasts. According to legend, she was the woman […]

c. 480-550 FEAST July 11 What’s known about the father of Western monasticism is from the “Dialogues of (Pope) St. Gregory the Great.” Sent to Rome […]

1656-1680 Feast Date: July 14 At her canonization in 2012, Pope Benedict XVI prayed, “St. Kateri, protectress of Canada and the first Native American saint, we […]

1568 – 1591 Feast Date: June 21 Born to a noble Italian family, Aloysius served as a page in Spain and Italy. His father opposed a […]

c. 675 – 754 Feast Date: June 5 Boniface, the apostle of Germany, started out as an English monk, a popular teacher, preacher and writer who […]