Born into the jewish faith, the road to faith in Jesus Christ was not an easy one for Edith

Summary: St Nathy (6th Century)    A pupil of St Finian of Clonard, he had a reputation for holiness. St Finian put him in charge of a monastery at Achonry. It is probably for this reason that, sometime after the diocese was formally erected at the Synod of [...]

Summary : St Felim of Kilmore (1) 6th century patron of Kilmore diocese. Very little is known about hermit Felim around whom a monastery grew up and later a cathedral. 

Patrick Duffy explains some of the background.

Dominic was a man who pursued his dream and who remained faithful to his calling even when he found himself in the midst of failure. T

Cajetan worked hard for the poor and the sick and founded a hospital for incurables.

Summary: Pope St Sixtus & Companions, martyrs. They died on 6 August 258, martyred the year after his election as bishop of Rome during the persecution of the emperor Valerian. According to his contemporary, Saint Cyprian, Sixtus was not so much ‘killed’ as ‘crowned’,  along with four deacons, [...]

Matthew says Jesus "was transfigured before them. His face shone as the sun: his garments became white as snow". (Mt 17:1-6

Summary: St Oswald, king and martyr. ~ There are two St Oswalds in England: one lived in the 7th century; he was the King of Northumbria who brought St Aidan to Lindisfarne; his feast is on 5th August. (The other was a 10th century monk and bishop of [...]

Mary was excommunicated by the Bishop of Adelaide for insubordination and disobedience. Mary took it all with patience and good humour. Later the bishop admitted his mistake

John Vianney preferred to show the attractive side of virtue rather than the ugliness of vice.

Peter Julian Eymard had an intense devotion to the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament

At Vercelli Eusebius set up a kind of monastic rule for the clergy to live in common with other priests

Summary: St Alphonsus Liguori Many of us, especially as we get older, suffer from arthritis, rheumatism, sciatica, and back and joint pains. Some cannot get any relief.

Peter Ward CSsR proposes St Alphonsus Liguori as patron for all those suffering from arthritis, sciatica, muscular [...]

In his later years Alphonsus suffered badly from arthritis. -patron of arthritis sufferers

Summary: St Ignatius of Loyola, priest, religious. Born at Loyola (Spain) in 1491; died on this day at Rome in 1556. A Spanish nobleman trained in diplomacy and the use of arms, wounded in battle against the French. The experience of conversion while convalescing led him [...]

Summary: The image of the Jesuits as the “shock-troops of the Vatican” is not quite how their founder, St Ignatius of Loyola, saw either himself or his companions. Rather they were “pilgrims” who had a desire “to love and to serve the Lord with their whole being”.

Ignatius, a man of God who in his life put God, his greatest glory and his greatest service, first"

Peter Chrysologus ("Golden-worded").became famous for his short, inspiring homilies, 176 of which still survive today.

Martha : the woman of faith, who said: "I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, the one who was to come into the world"

Samson is revered as one of the seven founding saints of Brittany

As a young man, Simon had a dream in which he was told to dig deeper foundations to his house - penance and mortification were to be these foundations.

Summary: St Celestine  was born and became a deacon in Rome around the time of Pope Innocent I (401-417). Later he himself became Pope 422-432 AD and continued the fight against the Pelagian heresy, which was now waning. He had the satisfaction of seeing it die away in [...]

The Roman Church has had some hesitancy in giving official recognition to a feast of St Joachim (authorised by Julius II, suppressed by Pius V , restored by Gregory XV) but .......

James is numbered with Peter and John as present at raising the daughter of Jairus to life (Mk 5:35-43); the transfiguration (Mk 9:2-8); and during his agony in the garden(Mk 14:32-42).

SsPatrick, Declan and Ailbe met up at Cashel where their respective areas of influence (bisoprics) seem to have been sorted.

Summary: St Sarbel Makhluf, Born on 8 May 1828 at Beka’Kafra (Lebanon); died on Christmas Eve 1898 at Annaya. Maronite monk for 16 years, whose religious name is Sarbel or Charbel, received a good education and was ordained priest. Spent his last 23 years as a hermit. Noted [...]

In 1999 Pope John Paul II made her, along with St Catherine of Siena and Sister Teresa Benedicta (Edith Stein), one of three co-patronesses of Europe.

Summary: St Mary Magdalene,  A faithful disciple of Christ, Mary ministered to his needs after having seven devils cast out from her. Witnessed his crucifixion, was present at his burial, and was the first to see the risen Lord. Commissioned by Christ to proclaim the good news of [...]

Mary was among the women who were present at the crucifixion of Jesus whenhis male disciples, save for John, abandoned him.

Lawrence was a brave Capuchin priest played an important part in promoting the Catholic faith in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.