WHEN a mere boy, Martin became a Christian catechumen against his parents’ wish; and at fifteen was therefore seized by…
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AFTER a holy youth, Lancelot Avellino was ordained priest at Naples. At the age of thirty-six he entered the Theatine…
ST. THEODORE was born of a noble family in the East, and enrolled while still a youth in the imperial…
PROTESTANTISM pretends to regard the veneration which the Church pays to the relics of the Saints as a sin, and…
WILLIBRORD was born in Northumberland in 657, and when twenty years old went to Ireland, to study under St. Egbert;…
LEONARD, one of the chief personages of the court of Clovis, and for whom this monarch had stood as sponsor…
That the truth is stranger than fiction is verified in the life of this holy man who was born on…
ABOUT fifty years after the Protestant Reformation had broken out, Our Lord raised up a mere youth to renew the…
ST. HUBERT’S early life is so obscured by popular traditions that we have no authentic account of his actions. He…
THE Church teaches us that the souls of the just who have left this world soiled with the stain of…