[caption id="attachment_17726" align="alignright" width="350"] Saint Joseph of Cupertino[/caption]St. Joseph of Cupertino was hardworking, simple, and a cheerful member of the Franciscan order. He would rather spend his time in the stables of their monastery taking care of the animals than to study. But the visiting...
St. John, named Chrysostom (golden-mouthed) on account of his eloquence, came into the world of Christian parents, about the year 344, in the city of Antioch. His mother, at the age of 20, was a model of virtue. He studied rhetoric under Libanius, a pagan,...
[caption id="attachment_17150" align="alignright" width="350"] St. Maximilian Kolbe[/caption] St. Maximilian Kolbe was born as Raymund Kolbe on January 8, 1894, in Poland, part of the Russian Empire. He was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and a martyr in the German death Camp of Auschwitz during World War...
Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, known as John in English, was born May 8, 1786 in Dardilly, France and was baptized the same day. He was the fourth of six children born to Matthieu and Marie Vianney. John was raised in a Catholic home and the family often helped...
James is the Son of Zebedee and Salome and brother of John the disciple---the title "the Greater" was added to St. James' name to help distinguish him from the Apostle James "the Less." Saint James the Greater was one of Jesus' first disciples. James was...
Saints Joaquin (sometimes spelled "Joachim," pronounced "wal-keem") and Anne, are the parents of the Virgin Mary. There are no mentions of them in the Bible or Gospels, what we know comes from Catholic legend and the Gospel of James, which is an unsanctioned, apocryphal writing...
[caption id="attachment_15629" align="alignleft" width="232"] San Isidro Labrador (St. Isidore the Laborer)[/caption]St. Isidore Bishop and Doctor of the Church "Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us...
Zechariah, the father of John the Baptist, was a priest of the course of Abijah, the eight of the 24 courses into which the priests were divided. The birth of John the Baptist was announced in a most striking manner. Zechariah and Elizabeth were both righteous. During...
[caption id="attachment_16577" align="alignleft" width="260"] St. John Chrysostom[/caption] St. John Chrysostom Doctor of the Church “To become adult Christians you must learn familiarity with the scriptures” [On the Letter to the Ephesians - Education of Children] Saint Augustine Bishop and Doctor of the Church "Holy Scripture is invested with supreme authority...
St. Isidore was born at Madrid, Spain, in the latter half of the 12th century. For the greater part of his life he was employed as a laborer on a farm outside the city. Many marvelous happenings accompanied his lifelong work in the fields and...