Saint Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin
On the morning of Saturday December 9, 1531, the Blessed Virgin appeared to the peasant Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzin. Thus began the extraordinary story of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
This truth of faith was solemnly affirmed on December 8, 1854, by Pius IX with the apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus.
Saint Ambrose
For his work to safeguard correct doctrine, he was proclaimed among the first four great doctors of the Church, together with Augustine, Jerome and Gregory the Great.
Saint Nicholas of Bari
The title “of Bari” is due to the transfer to the Apulian capital of many of his relics, which took place in 1087.
Saint Sabbas the Archimandrite
Founder of a particular type of monastery, called “lavra,” he played a substantial role in the spread of Eastern monasticism.
Saint Sabbas the Archimandrite
Founder of a particular type of monastery, called “lavra,” he played a substantial role in the spread of Eastern monasticism.
Saint John Damascene
He wrote sublime pages about the Blessed Virgin and was able to refute the then widespread iconoclasm.
Saint Francis Xavier
He is considered the greatest missionary of modern times.
Saint Bibiana
Her martyrdom was perpetrated during the historical interlude of the empire of Flavius Claudius Julianus (361-363), known as the Apostate.
Saints Edmund Campion and Companions
Saint Edmund Campion (1540-1581), known as the Pope’s Champion, was born in London during the vicious years of the Anglican Schism.
Saint Andrew
He was the first apostle to lead Peter to the Lord. Andrew preached the Gospel in Asia Minor and Scythia. He suffered martyrdom in Greece, in Patras, where he was crucified on an X-shaped cross.
Saint Francis Anthony Fasani
He had joined the Franciscans as an adolescent taking the religious name of the two saints of the Order to whom he was most devoted, Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua.
