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...

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

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...

“Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow ...

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...

The circumstances of St. Monica's life could have made her a nagging wife, a bitter daughter-in-law and a despairing parent, yet she did...

Joshua said to all the people, “If you be unwilling to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers se...

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...

Our understanding of the queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary has grown over the centuries, but it has its roots in Scripture. At the Annunc...

A young boy named Joseph Sarto was born in Venetia on June 2, 1835, the son of a cobbler. His was a loving family, but a poor one. He was ed...