Marc Chagall was born to a Hasidic Jewish family in a town in Belarus, part of the Russian Empire. Determined to become an artist, he moved to Paris, where his distinctive style drew on various modernist influences.

In 2015, the Vatican decreed that Archbishop Oscar Romero of San Salvador had died as a martyr “in hatred of the faith,” opening the way for his beatification, and ultimately his canonization in 2018.

Until 1962, the life of Fannie Lou Hamer was little different from that of her parents or other poor Black women in the Mississippi Delta.

“The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity,” an account of the martyrdom of a prosperous young woman and her servant in Carthage, is one of the most powerful and poignant documents of the early Church.

In every encounter he devoted his full attention, imparting the conviction that each person and each moment in life is precious.

In 1933 Michael Sopocko, a priest and professor of moral theology, was assigned as confessor to a small community of nuns in Vilnius (then in Poland). There he met a young nun named Mary Faustina Kowalska, who worked in the garden.

Miguel Febres Cordero, the first saint of Ecuador, was born with misshapen legs that made it difficult for him to walk properly.

Observing there to be no available public education for Black children in the city, Elizabeth and a friend opened a school in their home.

von Hügel came to play a role in the Modernist controversy, which involved a loosely connected network of scholars seeking to reconcile Catholic faith with principles of modern philosophy, biblical interpretation, and historical consciousness.

hich Nhat Hanh wrote extensively on parallels between the ways of Jesus and Buddha, and his wide audience and devoted followers were drawn from many religious traditions.