Saint of the day


Saint Katharine Drexel

Saint Katharine Drexel

She was a missionary among African Americans and the American Indians, fostering their education and bringing them the proclamation of Christ.


Saint Agnes of Bohemia

Saint Agnes of Bohemia

With the works of charity that flowed from this love and by her example, Agnes “played a remarkable role”, as John Paul II said in his homily for her canonization, “in the civil and cultural development of her nation”.


Saint Albinus of Angers

Saint Albinus of Angers

Attracted to the life of the monks, he entered the monastery of a small Breton village and became its abbot in 504.


Saint Auguste Chapdelaine

Saint Auguste Chapdelaine

Martyr in China, he belonged to the Society of Foreign Missions of Paris


Saint Romanus of Condat

Saint Romanus of Condat

Wanting to imitate the ancient hermits, at 35 years old he retired to live under a large fir tree in Condat (today's Saint-Claude).


Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

He made a vow to spread the devotion to the Virgin of Sorrows, whom he often called in his letters "our Co-redemptrix"


Saint Alexander of Alexandria

Saint Alexander of Alexandria

He is remembered above all for the important role he played in the conflict of the heresiarch Arius. St. Alexander was also the guide for St. Athanasius


Saints Aloysius Versiglia and Callistus Caravario

Saints Aloysius Versiglia and Callistus Caravario

When these two Salesians in love with Christ first met in 1921, Monsignor Aloysius Versiglia (1873-1930) was passing through Turin...


Saint Æthelbert

Saint Æthelbert

He was the first English sovereign to convert to Christianity. His life came to a turning point when he married Bertha, a devout Christian woman


Saint Polycarp

Saint Polycarp

He had the grace of being a direct witness of the charisms of the apostles; he was a disciple of Saint John the Evangelist, who consecrated him Bishop of Smyrna


Chair of Saint Peter

Chair of Saint Peter

The feast of the Chair of Saint Peter has very ancient origins. From the Latin cathedra, "chair" indicates the seat of the bishop, including the Holy Father's, as Bishop of Rome


Saint Peter Damian

Saint Peter Damian

He drafted a Rule stressing the importance of the "rigour of the hermitage" and defining the monastic cell as the "parlour where God converses with men"