A Pilgrim's Journey

At the Annunciation, God sent His messenger, the archangel Gabriel, to announce to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she would bear the Incarnate...

Together with St. Rose of Lima, St. Turibius is among the first of the known saints of the New World, serving the Lord in Peru, South Americ...

Our knowledge about St. Joseph is not extensive, and yet enough is known to reveal his character. What we know of him, we know from the Gosp...

As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. And he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the man’s eyes w...

Cyril of Jerusalem loved to study the Holy Scriptures from the time he was a child, and he made such progress that he became known for his d...

St. Patrick is known as the Apostle to Ireland. His specific place of birth isn't known, except that it was someplace in Britain. Some c...

[At that time] Peter came up and said to Jesus, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven t...

When Jesus had come to Nazareth, he said to those in the synagogue, "Truly, I say to you, no prophet is acceptable in his own country. ...

If you were to go about forty miles by road north of Jerusalem, you would come to the modern city of Nablus, which is the site of the ancien...

Lest we forget that God's plan for us is always best, just look at the life of St. Frances of Rome. She was a child born into privilege ...

St. John of God was born at the end of the 15th century. From the time he was a child he tended to be a very impulsive person. When he was p...

With the lives of so many early martyrs shrouded in legend, we are fortunate to have the record of the courage of Perpetua and Felicity from...

It was an astonishing sight for Peter, James, and John, when they saw the Lord Jesus Christ radiating His divine glory, talking with Moses a...

St. Casimir known to the people of Poland as "The Peace-maker," was the third of the thirteen children of Casimir IV, King of Pola...

Katharine Drexel was born in Philadelphia in 1858, into a very wealthy and prominent family. She had an excellent education and traveled wid...