Saint of Month

Peter Reddy, also known as Paul Chinnappa Reddiar or Paradesi Peter (Pilgrim Peter), was born on 30 April 1895 in Periooru, a village in the Madurai region of Tamil Nadu, in southeastern India. His parents were Hindus who converted to Lutheranism, and he, at the age of eighteen, first heard about Saint Francis from Anglican […]

Mariana de Paredes y Flores was born in Quito (Ecuador) on 31 October 1618 into a noble family of Spanish origin, whose lineage combines Andalusia and Castile. A prodigy of piety, owing to the precocious maturity of her spirit, she had already bound herself by vows of poverty, chastity and obedience at the age of

José Anacleto González Flores was born in Tepatitlán (Jalisco, Mexico) on July 13, 1888, in an environment of extreme poverty. In 1908, he entered the auxiliary seminary of San Juan de los Lagos; he quickly made great strides in the sciences. When he realized that his vocation was not the ministerial priesthood, he enrolled in

Amadeus IX of Savoy, remembered as “the Happy”, was born in Thonon (France) to Duke Louis of Savoy and Anne de Lusignan. As a child he was betrothed to Yolande of Valois, daughter of King Charles VII and sister of Louis XI. Their marriage in 1451 was both a political alliance and a personal bond,

Top photo: Sarcophagus of Blessed Alojzije Stepinac behind the main altar of Zagreb Cathedral. (iStockphoto/Getty Images) Aloysius Stepinac came from a peasant family, born in Brezarici near Krasic (Croatia) on May 8, 1898. He was the fifth out of eight children, and his mother always prayed that he might one day become a priest. In

László Batthyány-Strattmann was born on October 28, 1870, in Dunakiliti, Hungary, the sixth child of a family of ancient Hungarian nobility. In 1876, the family moved to Kittsee-Köpcseny in present-day Austria due to the constant threat of flooding on the Danube. When László was twelve, he lost his mother, who died at the age of

Delphine was born in Provence, France, in 1284. Left an orphan in her infancy, she was placed under the guardianship of her uncles, and under the direction of her aunt, the Abbess of St. Catherine of Sorbo. She grew up in the practice of every virtue and took a vow of virginity which she kept

A Franciscan Saint for the Entire World Dr. José Gregorio Hernández was a Venezuelan physician born in 1864 and a member of the Secular Franciscan Order since joining the Fraternity of La Merced in Caracas in 1899. As a physician and university professor, he stood out for his Christian and merciful care for the neediest

Luigi Guanella was born on December 19, 1842, in Fraciscio, a village in the Diocese of Como, Italy. Raised by practicing Catholic parents who prayed the Rosary daily and read the lives of the saints, he developed a deep devotion that shaped his future ministry. After completing his studies at the seminary in Como, he