Epic Martyrdoms
This saint gave his life in place of a fellow prisoner because he had a family.
Saint Maximillian Kolbe
Despite her son's wishes, this mother followed him through his travels praying constantly for his eventual conversion
Saint Monica
This saint became patron of hopeless causes since people would only pray to him as a last resort
Saint Jude the Apostle
This Saint led the French troops to take Orleans form the English.
Saint Joan of Arc
This saint is known for levitating during the Mass, bilocating, reading souls, bearing the stigmata, and being physically attacked by the devil.
Saint Pius of Pietrelcina (Padre Pio)
Often pictured his own skin, this saint was famously flayed alive.
Saint Bartholomew
After her sons swore revenge on the man who killed their father, this saint prayed that God would take their lives before they could commit mortal sin.
Saint Rita of Cascia
According to medieval tradition, this patroness of young girls will sometimes reveal to them in a dream the man that they will someday marry.
Saint Agnes
This Roman soldier cut his cloak in half to share with a beggar.
Saint Martin of Tours
This saint called down a thunderstorm so that she could spend more time with her brother.
Saint Scholastica
After Saint Michael appeared and destroyed the spiked wheel which had been built to executed this saint, she had to be beheaded.
St Catherine of Alexandria
All six of this saint's daughters entered the convent.
Saint Zelie Martin
This studious saint is venerated as the patron of students.
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Legend says this soldier saved a young maiden by slaying a dragon.
Saint George
This saint's heart was miraculously physically enlarged after he received the gifts of the Holy Spirit as doctors confirmed in an autopsy after his death.
Saint Phillip Neri
After being beheaded, this saint picked up his own head and walked for several miles, preaching a sermon on repentance.
Saint Denis
This saint died due to complications from a pregnancy after refusing to abort her unborn daughter to save her own life.
Saint Gianna Molla
As a baby, a swarm of bees settled on this saint's face, leaving behind a drop of honey to signify the sweetness of his preaching, making him the patron of beekeepers.
Saint Ambrose
This young soldier experienced radical conversion as a prisoner of war and rededicated his life to Christ through poverty and evangelization.
Saint Francis of Assisi
After this saint blessed a cup of wine, the cup shattered, showing the wine was meant to poison him.
Saint Benedict
After being sentenced to death, this saint was handed over to his own students to be executed, who slowly used their pens and writing tablets to kill him.
Saint Cassian
This early saint gave birth to her daughter in prison shortly before being martyred.
Saint Felicity
After suffering painful disfigurement, this saint built a hermitage next to a church so that others would not see his face and is now venerated as the patron saint of ugly people.
Saint Drogo
After he was hit by a cannonball, this saint founded a great order of priests.
Saint Ignatius of Loyola
This saint identified three children who had been placed in a pickling barrel and brought them back to life.
Saint Nicholas