She is called “the Penitent”. St. Mary was given the name ‘Magdalen’ because, though a Jewish girl, she lived in

Caesare de Rossi was born at Brandisi, kingdom of Naples, on July 22nd. He was educated by the conventual Franciscans

Nothing certain is known of her, but according to her untrustworthy legend, she was the daughter of a pagan priest

Confessor and hermit on the Nile. Arsenius, who was born in Rome in 354, was the tutor of the children

St. Frederick, Bishop of Utrecht, Martyr Frederick was trained in piety and sacred learning among the clergy of the Church

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