On December 16, there is named in the Roman Martyrology and in certain Irish calendars a Saint Bean in Ireland,

There is very little known about them. Chrysanthus was an Egyptian, son of a Patrician, Polemius. He was brought to

Claretian archbishop and founder. Anthony was born in Salient in Catalonia, Spain, in 1807, the son of a weaver. He

St. John was born at Capistrano, Italy in 1385, the son of a former German knight in that city. He

Karol J. Wojtyla, known as John Paul II since his October 1978 election to the papacy, was born in Wadowice,

Abbot and disciple of St. Anthony the Great, companion of St. Hesychius. He was born in Tabatha, Palestine, and was

St. Paul of the Cross was born at Ovada in the Republic of Genoa, January 3, 1694. His infancy and

In 1642 the Huron country was in great distress. Harvests were poor, sickness abounded, and clothing was scarce. Quebec was

Luke, the writer of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, has been identified with St. Paul’s “Luke, the

“I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place

St. Gerard Majella is the patron of expectant mothers. He was born in 1726 in Muro, Italy to a family

Teresa of Ávila was born Teresa Ali Fatim Corella Sanchez de Capeda y Ahumada in Ávila, Spain. Less than twenty

Imagine that your biography was written by an enemy of yours. And that its information was all anyone would have

Edward the Confessor was the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I