Tag: Our Lenten Journey

Anyone who has seen the classic movie "Song of Bernadette," will remember the dramatic conflict when church authorities did not believe the poor peasant...

With her auspicious beginnings in protestant early America, one would never suspect that Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton would become the founder of a religious...

In this time of modern pandemic, meet a little-known saint who came from nobility, but led a life serving the sick and the poor. Virginia...

She was weakened physically by smallpox, but it couldn't keep her strong spirit from accomplishing great things. Meet French-born American Saint Theodora Guerin, the...

Like the pooka and the kelpie, St. Brigid of Kildare may have been a mythical Celtic creature -- or she may be one of...

She spent most of her life in an area of France less than 50 miles big. She lived in cloister, devoting her time to...

Gianna Beretta Molla was a model of the successful twentieth century woman: She had an advanced degree and was a working mother. She loved...

She was a simple woman who worked as a nurse and spent the last years of her life alone and in poverty. She didn't...

Not much is known about the life of St. Martha, except for the few mentions she receives in the Gospels. What we do know is...

Even though she lived more than 1600 years ago, St. Monica faced some of the same problems of today’s women. Her husband had a...