New Saints & Charms

St. Rocco, or Roch, was born around 1348 in France. After his parents' death, Rocco sold all he owned and began a pilgrimage to Rome. When the plag...

Jacinta Marto was the youngest of the three children to whom Mary appeared in Fatima, Portugal in 1916. Just six years old, she was cheerful, energ...

Isidore worked in the fields of a farmer near Madrid, Spain. He always went to morning Mass, and was sometimes late to work. When the farmer invest...

In the early 3rd century, Christians in North Africa were suffering terrible persecution. Two young Christian mothers, Felicity and Perpetua, were ...

Augustine Zhao Rong, a Chinese soldier, was ordered to escort a bishop to his death sentence in Beijing. The bishop's courage, patience and demeano...

Dorothy Day became Catholic in 1927, after a unique but difficult young adulthood. She was passionate about helping workers and the poor, writing a...

Barney Casey was born in 1870, the sixth of sixteen children in a Wisconsin farming family. Despite struggling in his studies, he became a Capuchin...