Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the tiny woman recognized throughout the world for her work among the poorest of the poor, was beatified October 19, 2003. Among those present were hundreds of Missionaries of Charity, the order she founded in 1950, as a diocesan religious community....
The circumstances of St. Monica’s life could have made her a nagging wife, a bitter daughter-in-law, and a despairing parent, yet she did not give way to any of these temptations. Although she was a Christian, her parents gave her in marriage to a pagan,...
The Roman Catholic Church is commemorating the death of one of its saints, St. Roch (better known in the Philippines and in Hispanic countries as San Roque), the patron saint of plagues, pestilence and AIDS, August 16. In case you are not familiar with who San...
Aug. 11 One of the more sugary movies made about Francis of Assisi pictures Clare as a golden-haired beauty floating through sun-drenched fields, a sort of one-woman counterpart to the new Franciscan Order. The beginning of her religious life was indeed movie material. Having refused to marry...
St. Dominic de Guzman, the founder of the Dominican Order, was a man of remarkable character and broadness of vision. He had the deepest compassion for every sort of human suffering, and he saw the need to use all the resources of human learning in...
‘Labrador’ usa ka langyaw nga pulong nga nagapasabot trabahante o mamumuo. Si San Isidro Labrador usa ka trabahante sa uma nga nahimong santo sa Madrid, Espanya. Siya nihalad sa iyang kinabuhi sa Ginoo pinaagi sa iyang pag-ampo usa mag-uma. Naminyo siya kay Maria de la Cabeza...
Pope Pius IX called her ‘the Woman Apostle’ when he declared her as Venerable Marie Rivier. Pope John Paul II called her ‘a Prophet for our times’ during her Beatification on May 23, 1982. To the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary and to her...
Saint Justin Russolillo as an Apostle of Vocations, came to the Philippines. In 1993, the Vocationist Sisters arrived in the Philippines through the invitation of Bishop Vicente Ataviado, D.D., Bishop of the Diocese of Maasin, in the Province of Southern Leyte. They opened the Holy...
Do you know what Padre Pio said when the Vatican tried to suppress him? Imagine you were part of the leadership of the Catholic Church, and you lived all the way in the Vatican. Far away from experiencing the holiness of a man like Padre Pio....
Francoise-Marie Therese Martin (also known as St. Therese of the Child Jesus, Little Flower of Jesus or Little Flower, St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Teresa of the Infant Jesus – was born in Alencon, France in January 2, 1873. She was 4 years old when...