What little is known of St. Phoebe and her part in the early Church is derived from her brief mention in St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans: “And I commend…

Maria Micaela Desmaisières was born in Madrid to a noble family. Her mother died when she was a child, and she spent much of her early life in the company…

Gaspar Contarini was born to a noble family in Venice. After considering a religious vocation, he came to believe his calling was to serve Christ while remaining in the secular…

John Courtney Murray was one of the most significant American Catholic theologians of the twentieth century. His writings on pluralism and the “American experiment” helped overcome nativist doubts about the…

Ruth Pfau was born in Leipzig in 1929. After surviving Allied bombing during the war, she escaped East Germany to study medicine in Mainz. Inspired by the example of a…

On July 10, 1970, a frail and elderly man left the company of the Red Guards and walked across the bridge linking mainland China and the island of Hong Kong.…

According to an ancient legend, these seven young Christian men, seeking to escape persecution under the emperor Decius (d. 251), hid in a cavern, where they fell into a miraculous…

Julia Frances Catherine Postel was born in a small French town near Cherbourg. After studying in a Benedictine convent, she returned home to teach school, though privately she dedicated herself…

For years, Eve Lavalliere was the toast of Parisian society, a famous beauty and the most popular actress on the French stage. While performing for royalty across Europe, she enjoyed…

The Way of a Pilgrim, an extraordinary narrative published in Moscow in 1884, is the story of an anonymous man of peasant origins, who, following the death of his wife,…