He was a Benedictine, and was for fifty-two years Bishop of Grenoble. He was made a bishop despite his humility in not wanting to be elevated to that dignity, and in spite of his efforts to retire and become a monk. He was one of the great supporters of Pope Saint Gregory VII. It was in the diocese of Grenoble, with Saint Hugh's permission, that Saint Bruno founded the Carthusian Order, in 1084.

She was a sister of the illustrious martyr, Saint Hermes, whom she helped during his imprisonment and torture under Emperor Hadrian. She was martyred a few months after her brother and they are buried together.

He was the founder of the Order of the Hermits of Saint Francis, called the Minims, which means the Least. He died on Good Friday, when he was ninety-one years old. He was canonized twelve years after his death. The French Calvinists opened his tomb in 1562. They found his body incorrupt, and destroyed and burned it.

She was a beautiful penitent who was converted to a good life in the Catholic Faith at the tomb of Our Lord, in Jerusalem. She then fled into the desert by the Jordan River and spent forty-seven years of her life doing penance. The details of her life were given by Saint Zosimus. It was the reading of her life that caused Saint John Colombini to become a saint.

He was a much-loved English bishop who was persecuted by King Henry III. By his courage, simplicity and poverty, he triumphed over all his enemies. He preached one of the crusades against the Turks. There were eight great crusades, waged by the Catholics to protect the sacred places in the Holy Land. The first crusade began in 1096 and the last one ended in 1291.

He was a bishop and a Doctor of the Universal Church. He was the brother of Saint Leander, Saint Fulgentius and Saint Florentina, whose feast days are respectively, February 27, January 16 and June 20. Saint Isidore succeeded his brother, Saint Leander, as Bishop of Seville and ruled there for forty years.

He was born in Sicily, the son of African slaves. He became a Franciscan. Although he was only a lay brother and could neither read nor write, his holiness was so outstanding that he was made superior of his monastery, which he governed wisely and well.

He was one of the greatest saints of the Dominican Order. He was a Spaniard and was born at Valencia. He was one of the main forces that ended the Great Western Schism, a hardship of the Catholic Church, which lasted from 1378 to 1417, when two, and eventually three, cardinals, one at Rome, one at Avignon and one at Pisa, were all claiming to be Pope. Saint Vincent Ferrer had the gift of tongues. Speaking in his own language, all who listened to him could understand him in theirs. Saint Vincent Ferrer raised forty persons from the dead. He cured thousands of the blind, the lame, the deaf and the dumb. He extinguished a fire with one blow of his breath. A laborer at Valencia, who had fallen from a staging, was suspended by Saint Vincent Ferrer in mid-air until he brought him safely and slowly to the ground. A swarm of butterflies flew into Saint Vincent Ferrer's room as he was dying. A great number of angels assembled there to take his soul to God. He was in his sixty-third year when he died.

She was a virgin and a martyr, and a sister of Saint Agape and Saint Chionia, two heroic girls who also suffered martyrdom for the Catholic Faith.

She was a prioress of the Order of Saint Augustine. She was responsible for the institution of the feast of Corpus Christi. This feast was set up for the Universal Church in 1264, but Blessed Juliana was responsible for its being first commemorated in 1247.

He was a German, a native of Cologne. He became a Premonstratensian monk. He had a great devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. When the monks added the name Joseph to his original name, Herman, Our Lady gave her approval to this addition by placing a ring on his finger. Saint Herman Joseph was ardently devoted to the memory of Saint Ursula and her 11,010 companions, martyred in Cologne, all as virgins, in the year 383, and whose bodies are kept in one of the churches there.

At the age of fourteen, Saint Julie took a vow of perpetual chastity. Later, she became a cripple, but was miraculously cured when she was fifty-three years old. She founded the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur in 1803. The French Revolutionists, in the horrible era of Napoleon, could not intimidate this courageous nun. She died when she was sixty-five years old.

He was a Benedictine monk who lived in France. He died on Good Friday and is called Saint Walter of Pontoise.

She was one of the "three Marys" who followed Our Lord and stood at the foot of the Cross on Calvary when He died. She was the wife of Saint Cleophas, the brother of Saint Joseph. She was the mother of Saint Simon, Saint James the Less and Saint Jude, Apostles, and of Saint Mary Salome, the mother of the Apostles Saint James the Greater and Saint John. Saint Mary of Cleophas was put on a boat with others by the Jews in the year 47, and pushed out to sea without sails or oars. She died in France. The island in France where she landed, after her miraculous journey from Jerusalem, is called les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer ("the Holy Marys of the Sea"), named for Saint Mary of Cleophas, Saint Mary Magdalen and Saint Mary Salome.

Ezechiel was one of the four major prophets of the Old Testament. He was put to death by a Jewish judge and buried in the tomb of Sem, one of Noah's sons. Early Christians made many pilgrimages to the grave of this great prophet, Ezechiel, whom Catholics now call Saint Ezechiel on his feast day.

There have been thirteen Popes named Leo; five of them are canonized saints: Saint Leo I, Saint Leo II, Saint Leo III, Saint Leo IV and Saint Leo IX. Saint Leo I, called Saint Leo the Great, was a Pope and Doctor of the Church. He reigned for twenty-one years and fought all manner of heretics. He was "the soul of the Council of Chalcedon," in 451, which condemned the Monophysites, those heretics who held that the human nature of Jesus was absorbed into the Divine, and no longer exists. This heresy would leave Mary, the Mother of God, without a Child. Saint Leo the Great, by his personal power and fearlessness, kept Attila and the Huns from invading the city of Rome in the year 452.

She was a beautiful Italian girl of Lucca in Italy. Because of her ardent love of God she received great visions and had conversations with her Guardian Angel. She worked many miracles and bore the stigmata, the five wounds of Our Lord, in her body. She died at the age of twenty-five. She wanted to become a Passionist nun, but her health was too poor and that Order refused her.

He was a Goth in what is now Rumania. He was captured by heathen soldiers and cruelly martyred with his companions for the Catholic Faith because he would not eat food that had been dedicated to the pagan gods. His memory is in the Catholic Church forever.

He was a prince, the son of a Gothic king of Spain. He was put to death by his father because he would not receive Holy Communion from the hands of an heretical Arian bishop. His father had him beheaded.

She was the daughter of a duke and a descendant of Charlemagne, the great Holy Roman Emperor. Blessed Ida was the mother of Godfrey de Bouillon who fought valiantly in the First Crusade. After her husband's death, Blessed Ida dedicated herself as an Oblate in the Benedictine Order. She died a most holy death when she was seventy-three years old.

He was a Polish Franciscan priest, completely dedicated to Our Lady, who founded the Militia of the Immaculata to convert sinners, heretics and especially enemies of the Church. The Marytown friary he set up in Poland and devoted to publishing grew to be the largest in the world. Saint Maximilian was an apostle of the Miraculous Medal of Our Lady. He died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz on August 14, 1941, having voluntarily taken the place of a prisoner who was condemned to death. He once said, "One day, you will see the statue of the Immaculata in the center of Moscow atop the Kremlin."

She was a Greek woman who turned her house into a convent where many courageous Catholic girls went and lived as nuns. They called Saint Athanasia their abbess. She was an adviser to the royalty, including an empress, Theodora. The name Athanasia means immortal. Saint Athanasia is immortal in the love and veneration of the Catholic Church.

These were two noble Roman women, disciples of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul. They were the pallbearers of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, and buried the bodies of these Apostles after they were martyred, in the year 67. Saint Basilissa and Saint Anastasia were themselves martyred one year later by the Emperor Nero.

He was a saintly man who spent his life as a pilgrim and as a beggar in France and in Italy. He went about from church to church, spending most of his day in adoration of the Blessed Sacrament. His favorite shrine, to which he made a pilgrimage every year, was the Holy House of Loreto, the house where Mary was conceived and born, and where she conceived her Divine Child--and which had been miraculously transported through the air by angels, in 1291, from Nazareth to Dalmatia, and in 1294, from Dalmatia to Loreto. Saint Benedict Joseph Labre, the beggar, was canonized one hundred years after his death.

He was the twelfth Pope, a Syrian and a martyr.

Blessed Kateri was an American Indian born at Ossernenon (Auriesville) in New York State in 1656. She was baptized at the age of twenty by a Jesuit missionary and lived a life of prayer, penance and care of the sick. She took a vow of perpetual virginity. On April 17, 1680, she died, at the age of twenty four. The "Lily of the Mohawks," as she is called, was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1980 and canonized in 1991. In the United States her feast is on July 14.

He was a Roman senator who was accused of being a Christian by one of his slaves. He stood on trial before the Roman Senate, and gave a most beautiful profession of his Faith in the Catholic Church. After this, he was taken out and beheaded.

He was the one hundred and fifty-fourth Pope. He was the cousin of an emperor. He was imprisoned by the Normans whom he eventually changed into protectors of the Holy See. He died before the high altar of Saint Peter's in Rome. He was a friend and ally of the future great Pope, Saint Gregory VII, the famous Benedictine monk, Hildebrand.

He was a bookseller, in London. He was imprisoned and hanged for selling Catholic books after the Protestant Reformation had taken over England. As he was dying, this is what he said to his fellow countrymen: "It is as impossible for anyone to be saved outside the Catholic Church as it was for anyone to avoid the deluge who was outside Noah's Ark."

She entered the Order of Saint Dominic when she was a young girl. She was later made a prioress, and died when she was only forty-nine years old. She is one of the five Dominican women religious who are canonized saints. The others are: Saint Catherine of Siena, Saint Catherine de Ricci, Saint Margaret of Hungary and Saint Rose of Lima.

Saint Anselm was born in Italy. He later went to France and became abbot of the famous abbey of Bec. He then went to England and became Archbishop of Canterbury. His life was written by one of his monks. Every detail of it is one of edification and instruction. Saint Anselm is one of the thirty-three Doctors of the Universal Church.

He was a Welsh saint, and an abbot. He founded several monasteries in Wales. The Society of Jesus in North Wales has a very noted house dedicated to his name. When Saint Beuno's neice, Saint Winifred, was beheaded by Caradog of Hawarden for resisting his impure advances, Saint Beuno took her lifeless body and her head, wrapped them in his cloak and placed them at the foot of the altar while he said Mass. During the Mass, Saint Winifred's head and body were reunited; she came to life once more. She later became a nun and is one of the greatest glories of Wales.

He was a Capuchin saint of the last century, who lived in Bavaria. He became a Capuchin when he was thirty-one years old, and spent more than forty years as the doorkeeper of his friary. He was canonized in 1934, only forty years after his death.

He was the twenty-ninth Pope and a relative of the Emperor Diocletian. Saint Caius shed his blood for the Catholic Faith which the cruel Emperor Diocletian was persecuting. The niece of Saint Caius was Saint Susanna, whose feast day is August 11.

He was the thirteenth Pope and was martyred for the Catholic Faith. He was a great opponent of the horrible heresy of Montanism, which claimed that there are unforgivable sins which even Jesus cannot absolve us from.

He is known as the "great martyr." He was an officer in the army of Diocletian, the Roman Emperor. Because he refused to offer sacrifice to a pagan god, he was tortured and beheaded. Saint George is one of the fourteen Holy Helpers. He protects those who invoke him against skin diseases. Saint George is one of the great patrons of England.

He was a former lawyer who joined the Capuchins. He tried to convert to the Catholic Faith for the sake of their salvation the people of Switzerland who had lost the Faith during the Protestant Reformation. Saint Fidelis was so successful in bringing lapsed Catholics and Protestants back to the Faith that his enemies in Switzerland grew furious. They stabbed him to death.

She was the foundress, in 1829, of the Good Shepherd nuns. This is one of the most charitable and apostolic orders of women in the Catholic Church. The fruits of their work among poor and wayward girls are known everywhere. Saint Euphrasia died at the age of seventy-two. This was the same age as Our Blessed Lady when she died.

He was an Evangelist, the disciple of Saint Peter and the first Bishop of Alexandria, in Egypt, and the writer of the second Gospel. His full name was John Mark. He was a cousin of Saint Barnabas. His mother, Saint Mary, has her feast day on June 29. Saint Mark dropped the John from his name in favor of Saint John the Evangelist, who lived in his house. Saint Mark was martyred in Alexandria. His body was tied to a rope and dragged around the streets until he died, of bleeding and exhaustion. His body was taken in 828 to Venice, where a cathedral was built for him in 830, the famous Cathedral of Saint Mark in Venice.

He was the third Pope. He ruled the Church for eleven years before his cruel martyrdom. He was of Roman blood. He was the first Pope to set up parishes in Rome. His name is mentioned in the Roman Canon of the Mass.

Saint Clarence was a bishop of the diocese of Vienne in France.

He was a native of Holland who was received into the Society of Jesus when he was twenty-two years old. He was the great leader of the counter-Reformation against Protestants in German countries in the sixteenth century. He worked in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bohemia and Poland. He has been made a Doctor of the Universal Church, one of the two members of the Society of Jesus to receive this honor. The other is Saint Robert Bellarmine. Saint Peter Canisius has been called "the second apostle of Germany." The first apostle of Germany was Saint Boniface, who died in 755, and whose feast is June 5. It is Saint Peter Canisius who assures us that Saint Maternus, the son of the widow of Naim, was the first Bishop of Cologne in Germany.

She became a little servant maid for a wealthy family at Lucca, in Italy, at the age of twelve. She worked for them all her life, and was sixty years old when she died. Because of her radiant sanctity in every simple and humble thing she did, she has become the patron saint of housemaids and domestic servants.

He was born of poor parents, in France, ordained a priest in 1700, and died in 1716 when he was only forty-three years old. He founded the Order of the Daughters of Wisdom and also the Company of Mary (the Montfort Fathers). He was one of the greatest apostles of devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the whole of Catholic history. His masterpiece on this subject, called True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, may well make him one day a Doctor of the Universal Church. He revived the practice of saying the Rosary, first begun by Saint Dominic, which was being neglected in his day. The true practice of saying the Rosary, according to Saint Dominic and Saint Louis Marie, and to another dear apostle of the Holy Rosary, Blessed Alan de la Roche, is to recite it daily and always to keep the Rosary beads on one's person and in one's house. Saint Louis Marie de Montfort was a tall, handsome, noble and heroic priest, constant in the thought of Mary, the Mother of God, in everything he did and said.

He was the founder of the Passionist Order, which has done so much to revive in the hearts of all true Catholics a love for the sorrows of Jesus upon the Cross. Two other members of his Order have already been canonized as saints. They are: Saint Vincent Mary Strambi, who died in 1824, and Saint Gabriel of the Most Sorrowful Virgin, who died in 1862. Saint Vincent Mary Strambi wrote the life of Saint Paul of the Cross.

He was a French priest, a member of the Marist Order, and a missionary to Oceania. He was martyred on the island of Futuna by cannibals he had come to convert.

She was the wife of Saint Vitalis and the mother of Saints Gervase and Protase. She was martyred near Milan during the persecution of Marcus Aurelius.

He is called Saint Hugh the Great, and is one of the glories of the Benedictine Order. He was the adviser to nine Popes. One of his disciples was the monk of Cluny called Hildebrand, who after his election to the papacy was named Gregory VII, and is one of the greatest of the Popes.

She was the twenty-fifth child of a wool dyer and his wife, who lived in northern Italy. She became a Third Order Dominican at the age of sixteen. Though never educated in any formal way, she was one of the most brilliant theological minds of her day. This was because of special graces and inspiration given her by God. She succeeded in persuading the Pope to go back to Rome from Avignon, in 1377, and when she died she was endeavoring to heal the Great Western Schism, which had begun in 1378. Her letters, four hundred or more of them, and a treatise which is innocently called "a dialogue," are among the most brilliant writings of the saints in the history of the Catholic Church. Saint Catherine was thirty-three years old when she died, the same age as Jesus at His death. Saint Catherine of Siena is the patron saint of Italy. By way of letting her know how much He knew she loved Him, Jesus gave her the wounds of the nails and the spear in her hands, her feet and her side. She was declared a Doctor of the Church by Pope Paul VI in 1970.

Blessed Miles Gerard was born in England and became a schoolmaster. He studied for the priesthood at Rheims. During the era of the Protestant Reformation he was martyred for the Catholic Faith and for his priesthood at Rochester in England.

She was born in France, married at eighteen, widowed at twenty, and then became an Ursuline nun. In 1639 she came to Canada where she was the first missionary Sister. She was a great contemplative but led a most active life. She is called the "Mother of the Catholic Church in Canada."