Simon Mpeke was born in Cameroon to poor agricultural workers who were non-Christians. Early in life, Simon felt an attraction to Christianity and asked to be baptized. In 1935 he…

St. Nonna was born to Christian parents in Cappadocia (in present-day Turkey). She married Gregory, a magistrate in Nazianzus, though he belonged to a non-Christian sect. As one of her…

Paula González, who was born in Albuquerque, entered the Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati in 1954. After receiving a doctorate in biology, she went on to teach for many years…

Almost nothing is known of the life of Hadewijch, a Flemish mystic who lived in the thirteenth century. Although a prolific author, she inspired no biography. All that is known…

Peter Gojdic was born in Presov in present-day Slovakia. After his ordination as a Greek-Catholic priest, he entered a Basilian monastery and took the name Paul. Before taking his final…

Louis and Zélie Martin were canonized by Pope Francis in October 2015 during the Synod of Bishops on the Family. It was a fitting setting, as they became the first…

Rafael Cordero y Molina, a self-educated Afro-Puerto Rican, is remembered as the “Father of Public Education” in Puerto Rico. Born in San Juan to a poor family of free Blacks,…

If he had lived past his fourteenth birthday, if science had discovered a cure for the rare mitochondrial disorder that had previously claimed his three older siblings, Mattie Stepanek would…

Ten years ago, in the evening hours of June 17, 2015, a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was interrupted by a young white…

As a child in France, Gabrielle Bossis enjoyed a special sense of God’s presence. She liked to carry on “simple talks” with Jesus, a practice she continued all her life.…