A Pilgrim's Journey

On August 26, 1910 a baby girl was born to a couple of Albanian heritage in Skopje, Macedonia. She was baptized with the name of Agnes, and ...

St. Cuthbert, one of the great saints of Britain, was born in Northumbria in about the year 635, at about the same year in which St. Aidan f...

Labor Day, observed each year on the first Monday in September, has become synonymous with barbeques and bargains, and for most of us it mar...

St. Gregory, known as "the Great," served the Church as Supreme Pontiff from 590 until 604. Before this he had served the city of ...

  Jesus told his disciples, "If any man would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wou...

O precious Lord, once born for us in stable small and poor; be born again within our hearts, and there let us adore. As once our Saviour th...

The Holy Island of Lindisfarne has a recorded history from the 6th century AD. It was an important center of Christianity not only under St....

The three martyrs we commemorate on August 30th are numbered amongst the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, who suffered death for the Cath...

The circumstances surrounding the martyrdom of St. John the Baptist are rather unsavoury.  We have a drunken king who makes an oath because ...

St. Augustine was born in A.D. 354 in what is modern-day Algeria. His family was of some substance and highly respected. His father Patriciu...

  When Jesus came into the district of Cæsarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, “Who do men say that the Son of man is?” And they said, “S...

From Aragon where he was born in 1556, to Rome where he died 92 years later, fortune alternately smiled and frowned on the work of Joseph Ca...

St. Louis IX, (1215-1270) became King of France at the age of twelve. He had been brought up by his mother to be a faithful Catholic ruler, ...

In St. John's Gospel, Bartholomew (son of Tolomai) is known by the name Nathaniel.  His home was Cana in Galilee, where the miraculous t...

St. Rose of Lima, the first canonized saint of the New World, has one characteristic common to so many saints – she was not really understoo...