SAINTS FOR SEPTEMBER

Despite the fact that much about Saint Giles is shrouded in myste

These priests were victims of the French Revolution. Though their

Gregory was the prefect of Rome before he was 30. After five year

Even as a child, Rose had a great desire to pray and to aid the p

Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the tiny woman recognized throughout t

A man convinced of the inestimable worth of each human being, Fr�

A native of Spain, young Jesuit Peter Claver left his homeland fo

Saint Thomas was from Castile in Spain and received his surname f

Cyprian is important in the development of Christian thought and

This feast is a counterpart to the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesu

The ambiguity and intrigue surrounding John, the great preacher (

Early in the fourth century, Saint Helena, mother of the Roman Em

For a while there were two feasts in honor of the Sorrowful Mothe

There was no pope for 14 months after the martyrdom of Saint Fabi

When Robert Bellarmine was ordained in 1570, the study of Church

Joseph of Cupertino is most famous for levitating at prayer. Alre

Little is known about the life of Januarius. He is believed to ha

The first native Korean priest, Andrew Kim Taegon was the son of

Matthew was a Jew who worked for the occupying Roman forces, coll

Lorenzo was born in Manila of a Chinese father and a Filipino mot

In one of the largest such ceremonies in history, Pope John Paul

John Henry Newman, the 19th-century’s most important Engli

Born into a military family in Bordeaux, Louis trained to become

Born near Brescia in northern Italy, Giovanni Battista Montini wa

The deathbed confession of a dying servant opened Vincent de Paul

If saints have been falsely characterized as “other worldly

Angels—messengers from God—appear frequently in Scr

Most of the saints are remembered for some outstanding virtue or