Saints' Corner

Walking with the Communion of Saints — men and women whose lives show us Christ. Free for everyone.

Featured Saint

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.

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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.