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St. Bede (672 – 26 May 735) was an English monk, scholar, and author. He was renowned as one of the greatest teachers and writers of the Early Middle Ages. His most famous work, “Ecclesiastical History of the English People,” earned him the title “The Father of English History.” Bede spent most of his life […]

Mary, the Help of Christians (Latin: Sancta Maria Auxilium Christianorum) is a Roman Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, based on a devotion now associated with a feast day of the General Roman Calendar on 24 May. The Catholic saint, John Chrysostom was the first person to use this Marian title in year 345

St. William of Perth (died c. 1201), also known as St. William of Rochester was a Scottish saint who was martyred in England. St. William was born in Perth, Scotland, and dedicated himself to God after a wild youth. Working as a baker, he set aside a portion of his bread for the poor. One

St. Rita of Cascia, born Margherita Lotti (1381 – 22 May 1457), was an Italian widow and Augustinian nun venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. After Rita’s husband died, she joined an Augustinian community of religious sisters, where she was known both for practicing mortification of the flesh and for the efficacy

St. Eugene de Mazenod (1 August 1782 – 21 May 1861) was a French aristocrat and Catholic priest. When he was eight years old, Mazenod’s family fled the French Revolution, leaving their considerable wealth behind. As refugees in Italy, they were poor, and moved from place to place. He returned to France at the age

St. Bernardino of Siena, OFM (8 September 1380 – 20 May 1444), also known as Bernardine, was an Italian priest and Franciscan missionary preacher in Italy. He was a systematizer of Scholastic economics. His greatest contribution to economics was a discussion and defence of the entrepreneur. His preaching, his book burnings, and his “bonfires of

St. Ivo of Kermartin, T.O.S.F. (17 October 1253 – 19 May 1303), also known Yvo, Yves, or Ives, was a parish priest among the poor of Louannec, the only one of his station to be canonized in the Middle Ages. In 1267 Ivo was sent to the Faculty of Law of Paris (University of Paris),

St. Felix of Cantalice, O.F.M. Cap. (18 May 1515 – 18 May 1587) was an Italian Capuchin friar of the 16th century. Until the age of twenty-eight he worked as a farm laborer and shepherd. He developed the habit of praying while he worked. Toward the end of autumn 1543, Felix entered the newly founded

St. Pascal Baylon O.F.M. (16 May 1540 – 17 May 1592) was a Spanish Roman Catholic lay professed religious of the Order of Friars Minor. He served as a shepherd alongside his father in his childhood and adolescence, but desired to enter the religious life. He was refused once but later was admitted as a

St. Simon Stock (circa 1165 – 16 May 1265) was an English Catholic priest and saint who lived in the 13th century and was an early prior of the Carmelite order. He is believed to have lived at Aylesford in Kent, a place that hosted in 1247 the first general chapter of the Carmelite Order