Details: Joseph Mukasa was one of the Uganda Martyrs; a group of 22 Catholic and 23 Anglican converts to Christianity in the historical kingdom of Buganda, now part of Uganda, who were executed between 31 January 1885 and 27 January 1887. Very little is known about the individual martyrs. They...
Details: Pierre Toussaint (27 June 1766 – June 30, 1853) was a Haitian-American hairdresser, philanthropist, and former slave brought to New York City by his owners in 1787. A candidate for sainthood, he was declared Venerable by Pope John Paul II in 1996. Freed in 1807 after the death of his...
Details: Mary Elizabeth Lange, OSP (born Elizabeth Clarisse Lange; c. 1789 – February 3, 1882) was a Black Catholic religious sister who founded the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first African-American religious congregation. She was also, via the Oblates, the first-ever African-American Mother Superior. Her cause for her beatification was opened...
Details: Irmã Dulce, also known as Saint Dulce of the Poor (26 May 1914 – 13 March 1992) was a Brazilian Catholic Franciscan Sister who was the founder of the Obras Sociais Irmã Dulce also known as the Charitable Works Foundation of Sister Dulce. In 1949, she started caring for the...
Details: Daniel Jules Alexis Brottier, C.S.Sp. (7 September 1876 – 28 February 1936), was a French Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (who currently refer to themselves as Spiritans). He was awarded the Croix de Guerre and the Légion d'honneur for his services as a...
Details: Joseph Gérard (12 March 1831 – 29 May 1914) was a French Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate; he worked in the missions among the Basotho people in Lesotho and the Free State province of South Africa. His works in the mission...
Details: Maria Teresa Goretti (October 16, 1890 – July 6, 1902) is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Catholic Church, and one of the youngest saints to be canonized. She was born to a farming family. Her father died when she was nine, and the family had to share a house with...
Details: Ludwika Szczęsna, SSCJ (18 July 1863 – 7 February 1916) was a Polish Catholic nun and was also the co-founder of the Sisters, Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus which she established with Józef Sebastian Pelczar. She took the name of "Klara" when she became a nun. She...
Details: Escape from Chile Laura del Carmen Vicuña was born on April 5, 1891, in Santiago, Chile,[2] to José Domingo and Mercedes Pino. The Vicuña family were Chilean aristocrats, the father in military service and the mother working at home. Forced out of Santiago by the revolution, the family...
Details: Julia Ledóchowska (17 April 1865 – 29 May 1939) was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious and the foundress of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus. Ledóchowska was a prolific supporter of Polish independence which she often spoke about at conferences across Scandinavia while she settled in Russia...
Details: Saint Rafqa, also known as Saint Rebecca, was born in Hemlaya, Lebanon on June 29, 1832. She was the only child of Saber El-Choboq El-Rayess and Rafqa Gemayel. Her parents were devout Christians and taught her daily prayers. According to legend, when she entered the convent and gazed upon...
Details: Ghébr-Michael (1791 – 30 July 1855) was an Ethiopian Roman Catholic priest and Congregation of the Mission postulant. He professed as a monk in the Coptic Orthodox Church in 1813 and subsequently met Giustino de Jacobis on a journey. That unexpected meeting would eventually change his life since de Jacobis...
Details: Blessed Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta was a religious sister from Congo who was killed by invading rebels fighting the 1964 civil war. Anuarite Nengapeta was born in Congo in 1939, and was educated in the first mission in her region of Africa. When she entered the religious community of the...
Details: From 1978 to his death in 2005, Pope John Paul II was the head of the Catholic Church and the sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was chosen Pope by the second papal conclave of 1978, which was summoned after John Paul I, who had been elected to...
Details: Fulton John Sheen (May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) was an American Catholic bishop notable for his preaching and, in particular, his work on television and radio. Sheen was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in 1919 and immediately rose to prominence as a theologian, winning the...
Details: Mother Teresa, commonly known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was a Roman Catholic Albanian-Indian nun who founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. Her passport name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, but she was born Anjez Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Üsküb, which is now the...
Details: Padre Pio, OFM Cap., commonly known as Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic. In the Catholic Church, he is regarded as a saint. Padre Pio became famous for having stigmata for the most of his life, which sparked a lot of...
