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 →Showing: Priests & Bishops
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. 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.