Saint Gertrude the Great
Precursor of the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Saint Gertrude or Geltrude (1256-1302), known as the Great, was a mystic who spent almost all her life in that exceptional centre of spirituality and culture that was the Monastery of Helfta.
Saint Albert the Great
His genius can be appreciated simply through his explanation of the perfect harmony between faith and science, his teachings transmitted to St Thomas Aquinas and his critical appreciation of Aristotle. He deserved the title of Doctor Universalis
Saints Nicholas Tavelić and Companions
They spent years in the Holy Land to guard the places of the life, death and resurrection of Our Lord. Imitating Saint Francis in his encounter with the Sultan, they announced Jesus Christ to the Muslims.
Saint Agostina Pietrantoni
She lived in the years immediately following the Unification of Italy, marked by radical hostility to Catholicism on the part of power. She served God by giving herself to the sick...
Saint Josaphat Kuncewycz
He had such a love for the Church and her unity that he asked God for the grace of martyrdom. He wished to offer himself as a sacrifice to reconcile all the schismatic churches into the one fold.
Saint Martin of Tours
He is one of the founders of monasticism in Europe, to whose evangelisation he admirably contributed
Saint Leo the Great
He fought Pelagianism, Nestorianism, and Manichaeism. And, above all, with the famous Tomus ad Flavianum he disavowed the Eastern monk Eutyches and his Monophysism, which heretically denied the human nature of Jesus
Dedication of the Lateran Basilica
Its full name is “Papal Archbasilica of the Most Holy Saviour and Saints John the Baptist and the Evangelist in the Lateran”. As the cathedral of Rome, it is in this basilica that the Pope's investiture on the Roman Cathedra is celebrated as Peter's successor and therefore pastor on earth of the universal Church
Four Crowned Saints
The stonemasons Simphorianus, Claudius, Nicostratus and Castorius, known as the Four Crowned Saints (†304), suffered martyrdom during Diocletian's persecutions
Saint Vincenzo Grossi
He spent hours in the confessional, educating consciences in the Christian virtues and nourished himself with prayer, penance and contemplation of the Blessed Sacrament.
Saint Leonard of Noblac
He was baptised on Christmas Eve 496 by St Remigius, with King Clovis as godfather. He declined the offer of a bishopric because he preferred the hermit life
Saint Guido Maria Conforti
The founder of the Xaverians never ceased to encourage the evangelisation of non-Christians in the world.
