Saint of the Day

Antonio Maria was born to poor peasants in Cereta (La Spezia), today in the diocese of Chiavari, on 12 April 1789,…

Saint Norbert’s Story: In the 12th century in the French region of Premontre, Saint Norbert founded a religious…

Boniface, known as the apostle of the Germans, was an English Benedictine monk who gave up being elected abbot to…

Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions’ Story: one of 22 Ugandan martyrs, Charles Lwanga is the patron of youth and…

Saints Marcellinus and Peter’s Story: Marcellinus and Peter were prominent enough in the memory of the Church to be…

Saint Justin Martyr’s Story: Justin never ended his quest for religious truth even when he converted to…

The Story of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary: this is a fairly late feast, going back only to the 13th or…

Saint Joan of Arc’s Story: burned at the stake as a heretic after a politically-motivated trial, Joan was beatified…

Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Pope Paul VI, was born in Concesio, a small town in the Brescia area, on 26…

News about Saint Germanus is few and fragmented. The rather pompous biography was written by his friend Fortunatus…