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St. Vincent Ferrer, OP (23 January 1350 – 5 April 1419) was a Valencian Dominican friar and preacher, who gained acclaim as a missionary and a logician. For twenty-one years he was said to have traveled to England, Scotland, Ireland, Aragon, Castile, France, Switzerland, and Italy, preaching the Gospel and converting many. He was a […]

St. Isidore of Seville (c. 560 – 4 April 636) was a Spanish scholar, theologian, and archbishop of Seville. He is widely regarded, in the words of 19th-century historian Montalembert, as “the last scholar of the ancient world”. At a time of disintegration of classical culture, aristocratic violence and widespread illiteracy, Isidore was involved in

St. Richard of Chichester (1197 – 3 April 1253), also known as Richard de Wych, is a saint (canonized 1262) who was Bishop of Chichester. St. Richard’s private life was supposed to have displayed rigid frugality and temperance. Richard was an ascetic who wore a hair-shirt and refused to eat off silver. He kept his

St. Francis of Paola, O.M., (or: Francesco di Paola or Francis the Fire Handler; 27 March 1416 – 2 April 1507) was an Italian mendicant friar and the founder of the Roman Catholic Order of Minims. Unlike the majority of founders of men’s religious orders, and like his patron saint, Francis was never ordained a

St. Hugh of Grenoble (1053 – 1 April 1132) was the Bishop of Grenoble from 1080 to his death. He was a partisan of the Gregorian reform and opposed to the Archbishop of Vienne, later Pope Callixtus II. St. Hugh was instrumental in the foundation of the Carthusian Order. He received Bruno of Cologne, perhaps

Bl. Jane of Toulouse (also called Joan of Toulouse) was born in the early 13th century. She received the Carmelite veil from Saint Simon Stock, taking a vow of perpetual chastity. She also used to follow the rule of Saint Albert of Jerusalem. Jane was not only the first Carmelite tertiary but also the foundress

St. Marie-Nicolas-Antoine Daveluy (16 March 1818 – 30 March 1866) was a French missionary and saint. Father Daveluy began work as a missionary in Korea, becoming fluent in the language. He wrote a Korean-French dictionary and other books about the Catholic Church and its history in Korean. He was arrested during a campaign by the

St. Gladys or Saint Gwladys ferch Brychan (died circa 523), daughter of King Brychan of Brycheiniog, was the queen of the saint-king Gwynllyw Milwr and the mother of Cadoc “the Wise”, whose Vita may be the earliest saint’s life to mention Arthur. Gladys’s other children were Cynidr, Bugi, Cyfyw, Maches, Glywys II and Egwine. Today

St. John of Capistrano (24 June 1386 – 23 October 1456) was a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest from the Italian town of Capestrano, Abruzzo. Famous as a preacher, theologian, and inquisitor, he earned himself the nickname “the Soldier Saint” when in 1456 at age 70 he led a crusade against the invading Ottoman Empire

St. Rupert of Salzburg (c. 660 – 710 AD) was Bishop of Worms as well as the first Bishop of Salzburg and abbot of St. Peter’s in Salzburg. He was a contemporary of the Frankish king Childebert III. Rupert is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches. Rupert is also