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.
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.