Joan of Arc
France
"The world is one's ship and not one's home"
Therese of Lisieux
Fathers
Joseph
Beheaded by Herod
John the Baptist
Italy
"You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you."
Augustine
Athletes
Sebastian
Grilled alive
Lawrence
USA
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”
JP II
hopeless causes and desperate situations
Jude
Auschwitz concentration camp in 1941
Maximilian Kolbe
Josemaría Escrivá
Spain
“Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Francis of Assisi
Musicians
Cecelia
Stoned by a crowd led by Saul
Stephen
Faustina
Poland
Ignorance of Scripture, is ignorance of Christ
Jerome
Pilots
Joseph of Cupertino
beheaded in 1535 by King Henry VIII for refusing to renounce papal supremacy