Saints' Corner
Walking with the Communion of Saints — men and women whose lives show us Christ. Free for everyone.
Featured Saint
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Priest, Franciscan Friar, Martyr of Charity
A Franciscan priest and pioneering Catholic media pioneer, Kolbe was arrested by the Nazis for hiding refugees and publishing against the regime — and in Auschwitz, volunteered to die in place of a stranger, a husband and father, condemned to a starvation cell.
Read their story →Venerable Francis Libermann
Priest, Founder of the Society of the Holy Heart of Mary; Superior General of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (Spiritans)
Born Jacob Libermann, the son of a rabbi, he converted from Judaism to Catholicism as a young man, was ordained despite years of delay from severe illness, and went on to found a missionary society for the evangelization of Africa and the African diaspora — which he then merged with an older struggling community to create the modern Congregation of the Holy Spirit (the Spiritans), still serving across Africa and the world today.
St. Josephine Bakhita
Virgin, Religious Sister (Canossian Daughters of Charity), Patroness of Sudan and South Sudan, Patroness of Trafficking Survivors
Kidnapped and enslaved as a child in Sudan, so traumatized she forgot her own birth name, Bakhita endured years of brutal abuse before finding freedom, faith, and religious life in Italy — and became one of the clearest living proofs that forgiveness can outlast even the worst evil done to a person.
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Virgin, Doctor of the Church, "The Little Flower of Jesus", Co-Patroness of the Missions
A cloistered Carmelite nun who died at 24 having never left her convent or done anything the world would call remarkable, Thérèse became one of the most beloved and influential saints of modern times through her 'Little Way' — doing the smallest ordinary acts with total love and total trust in God's mercy.
St. Maximilian Kolbe
Priest, Franciscan Friar, Martyr of Charity
A Franciscan priest and pioneering Catholic media pioneer, Kolbe was arrested by the Nazis for hiding refugees and publishing against the regime — and in Auschwitz, volunteered to die in place of a stranger, a husband and father, condemned to a starvation cell.
St. Charles Lwanga and Companions
The Uganda Martyrs — Lay Catechists and Royal Pages, Martyrs
Young pages and catechists in the royal court of Buganda, mostly teenagers and young men, who chose death by fire rather than renounce their newfound Catholic faith or submit to the king's demands — their courage helped plant the Church so firmly in East Africa that Uganda remains one of the continent's most vibrant centers of Catholic life today.
St. Teresa of Calcutta
Religious Sister, Founder of the Missionaries of Charity, "Mother Teresa"
Born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu to an Albanian family, she left a stable teaching order to found the Missionaries of Charity, dedicating her life to 'the poorest of the poor' on the streets of Calcutta — becoming, in her own lifetime, perhaps the most recognized face of Christian charity in the modern world.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Priest, Dominican Friar, Doctor of the Church ("Angelic Doctor", "Common Doctor")
Born to a noble family that wanted him to become a powerful abbot, Thomas defied them to join the new, controversial mendicant Dominican order — going on to become the greatest systematic theologian in Church history, before a mystical experience near the end of his life led him to call all his vast writing 'straw' compared to what he had seen of God.