Elisabetta Tasca Serena
An Italian layperson and mother, Elisabetta Tasca Serena lived a simple and hardworking life of family devotion and abandonment to God, guid…
Saints Calendar
November 3rd
11 saints celebrated
Saint Guenael
Son of lords from Cornouaille, Guenaël became a disciple of Saint Guénolé at Landévennec before succeeding him as abbot. After an evangeliza…
Saint Hubert of Aquitaine
A nobleman from Aquitaine and avid hunter, Hubert converted after seeing a stag with a crucifix between its antlers. A disciple of Saint Lam…
Saint Malachy of Armagh
A reformer of the Church in Ireland in the 12th century, Malachy was Bishop of Connor and later Archbishop of Armagh, struggling against lay…
Manuel Lozano Garrido
Manuel Lozano Garrido (1920-1971), nicknamed Lolo, was a Spanish lay journalist. Despite total paralysis and blindness, he dedicated his lif…
Saint Marcellus of Paris
Born in Paris and raised by Bishop Prudence, Marcel became bishop of the city in the 5th century. Famous for his miracles, notably that of t…
Maria Maddalena of the Holy Cross Alesci
An Italian Capuchin Poor Clare nun, Carmela Alesci (Sister Maria Maddalena) offered herself to Merciful Love through illness.
Blessed Martin de Porres
Born in Lima in 1569, Martin de Porres was a Dominican lay brother renowned for his profound humility and charity toward the poor, the sick,…
Nicolò Cortese
An Italian Conventual Franciscan priest, Father Placido Cortese (1907-1944) directed the magazine Il Messaggero di Sant'Antonio and saved hu…
Saint Pirmin
Saint Pirmin, an 8th-century abbot and bishop, was a great missionary and founder of famous abbeys such as Reichenau, Murbach, and Hornbach.…
Rupert Mayer
A German Jesuit priest, Blessed Rupert Mayer was a courageous opponent of Nazism in Munich and a tireless apostle to the poor.