Franciscan Saints and Blessed
March 2025: Blessed Angela (Aniela) Salawa (1881-1922) – (March 12)
Blessed Angela Salawa, the youngest of ten children of Bartholomew and Eve Salawa, was born...
Read MoreFebruary 2025: Japanese Franciscan Tertiaries – Martyrs (Feb. 6)
Christianity was introduced to Japan in the sixteenth century by Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries, resulting...
Read MoreJanuary 2025: Blessed Pope Gregory X (Jan. 10)
This Tertiary pope of the 13th century, a friend of St. Bonaventure, was a true...
Read MoreDecember 2024: Blessed Hugolinus Magalotti (c. 1320 – 1373)
Hugoline was born into a noble family in Camerino, Italy, and lived a life of...
Read MoreNovember 2024: Blessed Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi (1880 – 1951) and Blessed Maria Corsini (1884 – 1965), Spouses
Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi was born in Catania on 12 January 1880. He...
Read MoreNovember 2024: Venerable Servant of God Lodovico Coccapani (1849 – 1931)
The Venerable Servant of God Lodovico Coccapani was born on 23 June 1849 in Calcinaia...
Read MoreOctober 2024: St. Anna Schäffer (1882-1925)
Lay mystic; Franciscan tertiary; born in Mindelstetten (between Regensburg and Ingolstadt), Bavaria, Germany, on February...
Read MoreOctober 2024: JOHN XXIII (1881-1963)
ANGELO GIUSEPPE RONCALLI was born in Sotto il Monte, in the Diocese and Province of...
Read MoreSeptember 2024: St. Rose of Viterbo (1233-1251)
Rose was born in Viterbo (Italy) in 1233. It was the time of the emperor...
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