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St. Catherine of Siena - She Lived on Earth as if She Were in Heaven

God, in His infinite wisdom, sets out for each member of the faithful a specific path of sanctification, granting special graces for the fulfilment of this calling. Some He chooses for missions of exceptional importance. These are providential souls, destined to reveal the divine will for a particular epoch and …
Isabelle Farias - 31, March 2021

St. Agnes of Prague - Soul of Valour, Heart of Fire!

At the beginning of the 13th century, King Ottokar I of Bohemia and his wife Constance had their first daughter, whom they named Agnes. She came into the world with blood ties to the most eminent royal and princely families of Central Europe. However, more than the brilliance of earthly …
Editorial team - 29, February 2020

St. Isidore of Seville - The Last Father of the Western Church

Slowly, deeply, and solemnly, the bells of the Church of the Holy Cross of Jerusalem, the most important in Seville, announced the departure from this world of Archbishop Isidore, admirable for his knowledge, his writings and, most especially for his upright life. It was April 4, 636. Clothed in episcopal …
Sr. Maria Beatriz Matos - 31, March 2016

St. Vincent Ferrer - The Saint Who Opposed Tepidity

“The wind blows where it wills...” (Jn 3:8). In His renowned nocturnal conversation with Nicodemus, Jesus used this image to explain to this Pharisee how the Holy Spirit acts in souls. God has a plan for each person, endowing everyone with adequate graces to attain holiness, but to some He …
Sr. Juliane Campos - 31, March 2014

St. Odilo of Cluny - The “Archangel of the Monks”

Through the gift of vocation, God traces out a specific path of sanctification for each of His children and provides natural and supernatural abilities that favour the fulfilment of this individual and unique calling. But He also invites us to place these talents, in one way or another, at the …
Sr. Carmela Werner - 31, December 2013

Blessed Maria de Jesus López de Rivas - A Fiery Heart, Accustomed to Heroism

Let us turn our attention to the fervid lands of Spain. Its vast expanses have seen the birth of countless Saints and heroes. The combative Ignatius of Loyola, his zealous disciple St. Francis Xavier, and the austere St. John of the Cross are but a few examples. Among these illustrious …
Sr. Maria de Jesús Tavárez - 31, August 2022

St. Catherine of Alexandria - A Wise and Warlike Virgin

“I preferred [wisdom] to sceptres and thrones, and I accounted wealth as nothing in comparison with her. Neither did I liken to her any priceless gem, because all gold is but a little sand in her sight, and silver will be accounted as clay before her. I loved her more …
Sr. Juliana Montanari - 31, October 2025

Blessed Margaret Pole - The Price of Integrity

At the break of dawn on May 27, 1541, the Countess of Salisbury was told that her last hour had come. Her long and unjust captivity in the dreaded Tower of London was over. In defence of her innocence, her sense of justice still led her to protest against King …
Bruna Piva - 30, April 2022

St. John Houghton - For the Holy Church, I Am Ready to Suffer

“Look, Margaret!” From a barred window in the Tower of London, Sir Thomas More called to his daughter to witness the scene: five priests – John Haile, a secular clergyman, Richard Reynolds, a Brigittine monk and renowned theologian, and three Carthusian priors, John Houghton, Robert Lawrence and Augustine Webster, clad …
Sr. Elizabeth Veronica MacDonald - 30, April 2025

St. Francis de Sales - To Love God Without Measure

When the twenty-six-year-old priest set off for the province of Chablais – a region now divided between France and Switzerland – perhaps not even the most optimistic of men could have foreseen what would result from his activity. More than sixty years of fierce Calvinist domination had practically banished the …
Victor Hugo Morais - 31, December 2023

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