Sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution and martyred. When the revolution started in 1789, a group of twenty-one

According to my resources, the name Carmen is a derivation of Carmel which is one of the titles given to

St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Feast day-July 15) St. Bonaventure, known as “the seraphic doctor,” was born

St. Kateri Tekakwitha is the first Native American to be recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was

St. Henry, son of Henry, Duke of Bavaria, and of Gisella, daughter of Conrad, King of Burgundy, was born in

Saint John Gaulbert, Abbot – Feast day is July 12th The city of Florence gave to the world Saint John

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