The Book of Margery Kempe offers a vivid self-portrait of a remarkable religious seeker from fourteenth-century England. Margery was the wife of a beer brewer, with whom she bore fourteen…
St. Joseph was born to a poor family in the small Italian town of Cupertino. His early life gave no evidence of any special gifts. He was considered slow-witted and…
Sadhu Sundar Singh, who wore the robes of an Indian holy man to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ, was one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of modern…
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…
