SAINTS FOR FEBRUARY

The “apostle of the north” (Scandinavia) had enough f

At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pi

We know more about the devotion to Saint Blaise by Christians aro

Joseph was born at Leonissa in the Kingdom of Naples. As a boy an

As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Churc

Nagasaki, Japan, is familiar to Americans as the city on which th

Colette did not seek the limelight, but in doing God’s wil

For many years, Josephine Bakhita was a slave but her spirit was

A careless and irreligious soldier for the city-state of Venice,

Twins often share the same interests and ideas with an equal inte

On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Imm

The persecution of Christians began in Alexandria during the reig

In the same year that a power-hungry Napoleon Bonaparte led his a

Because their father was an officer in a part of Greece inhabited

This is a special day for the Jesuits, who claim today’s s

Gilbert was born in Sempringham, England, into a wealthy family,

Can you imagine seven prominent men of Boston or Denver banding t

The patron of Christian artists was born around 1400 in a village

Born of a noble family in northern Italy, Conrad as a young man m

Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three Portuguese shepherd ch

Maybe because he was orphaned and had been treated shabbily by on

This feast commemorates Christ’s choosing Peter to sit in

Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, disciple of Saint John the Apostle an

In 1220, Saint Anthony was preaching conversion to the inhabitant

Sebastian’s roads and bridges connected many distant place

If anyone knew rejection, ridicule and disappointment, it was tod

Born in Italy into a large family and baptized Francis, Saint Gab

Daniel spent most of his life in the trenches—one way or a