Saint of Month

Born in Lyon (France) in 1826, Antoine Chevrier came from a family of modest means. He entered the Saint Irénée seminary and was ordained priest for the diocese of Lyon in 1850. Sent then as vicar to the parish of S. André de la Guillotière, in a poor and working-class district of Lyon, he discovered […]

José Jorge Bunader was born on January 15, 1889, in El Metn (Jabal Lubna, Lebanon). After moving to Argentina, he remained there for the rest of his life. He was a lay Catholic of the Maronite rite. He was married and had a large family, which he cared for with admirable attention and devotion. His

Saint Pius X, in the world Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, wrote the following words in his will and testament: “I was born poor, I have lived in poverty, and I wish to die poor”. He was a Pope from a humble social background, who was elected to the See of Peter, after going through all the

Isabella of Aragon, also known as Saint Elizabeth of Portugal, was born in Zaragoza on January 4, 1271. She was the third child of Peter III the Great, the king of Aragon, Valencia, and Count of Barcelona, and Constance of Sicily. At the age of 12, she was married to Dionysius, the king of Portugal,

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