COMMENTARY: St. Paul Miki and his companions did more than simply die for the faith. They lived it with missionary vigor and ...

The lambs — carried in baskets dressed in white with red roses for St. Agnes’ virginity and martyrdom — were later blessed in ...

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church today commemorates Saint Agatha the Martyr. On this day, people bearing the names Dobrin, Dobromir, Dobri, as well as women with related female names, mark their name day ...

A group of Christian Native Americans and missionary priests - all who died in St. Augustine and near present-day Jacksonville centuries ago while defending their faith - have been proposed for ...

The English priest St. John Plessington was among dozens martyred because of an anti-Catholic hoax in the seventeenth century. Now a diocese seeks to confirm whether remains long venerated as a martyr ...

The largest Benedictine abbey in Asia has opened the canonization cause for 36 martyrs of the Benedictine mission in North Korea. Abbot Simon Petro Ri Hyeong-u of the Order of St. Benedict Waegwan ...

Sisters make the walk from their nearby convent, adjacent to OSF St. Anthony’s Medical Center, to St. Joseph’s Cemetery for the solemn ceremony Friday evening. ALTON — The Sisters of St. Francis of ...

In his new encyclical, “Spe Salvi” (Saved by Hope), Pope Benedict draws upon the example two saints—one from Africa and one from Vietnam—to show people how to live in hope. At the very outset of ...

St. Ethelbert (also known as Albert or Albright), King of East Anglia and Martyr (in the Eastern tradition—Passion-Bearer), is venerated as the main patron saint of the city of Hereford in western ...