St. Benedict, the Father of Western monasticism and brother of Scholastica, is considered the patron of speliologists (cave explorers). He

Martyr with eleven companions in Lebanon. A Spanish Franciscan, Emmanuel and the others were caught up in the rising of

Capuchin mystic who had many spiritual gifis. A native of Binasco, near Milan, Italy, born in 1660, she entered the

Benedictine abbot also called Grimwald, invited to England by King Alfred in 885. Grimbald arrived in England and declined the

English martyr. He was born at Stocksteads, Hampshire, and was a convert. He was arrested the day he received his

Born on October 16 1890 in Corinaldo, in the Ancona Province in Italy, her farmworker father moved his family to

Cofounder of the Barnabites. Born in 1502 in Cremona, Italy, Anthony became a medical doctor. In 1528 he was ordained

Elizabeth was a Spanish princess who was given in marriage to King Denis of Portugal at the age of twelve.

St. Thomas was born a Jew and was called to be one of the twelve Apostles. His birth and death

St. Bernardino Realino was born into a noble family of Capri, Italy in 1530. After receiving a thorough and devout