Isidore the Farmer

c. 1070-1130 FEAST May 15 A humble peasant born near Madrid, Spain, Isidore married and worked the same fields all his life. The couple was said […]

Mary Mazzarello

1837-1881 FEAST May 14 An Italian peasant, Mary worked long hours in the fields and vineyards. She attended Mass frequently and joined a sodality whose members […]

Motherhood: A vocation that grows and changes

Motherhood is lifelong and deeply heartfelt commitment can only be called a vocation — is that, even as we hold our children to our hearts, we prepare them for independence, for “their going.”

Our Lady of Fatima

20th Century FEAST May 13 Mary appeared to three peasant children near Fatima, Portugal, six times between May 13 and October 13, 1917, and asked for […]

Pancras

died circa 304 FEAST May 12 According to an early legend, the Roman martyr Pancras was a native of Syria or Phrygia (now Turkey) brought to […]