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This evangelist wrote the Gospel bearing his name and accompanied both St. Paul and St. Peter in the early Church
Who is St. Mark?
At Herod’s birthday banquet, this prophet was beheaded after Herodias’s daughter asked for his head on a platter.
Who is St. John the Baptist?
In a garden in Milan, this future bishop heard a child’s voice say “tolle lege”—“pick up and read”—and opened St. Paul’s Letter to the Romans, a decisive moment in his conversion.
Who is St. Augustine of Hippo?
This saint served Jesus as a true human father—not by begetting him, but by caring for and raising him, and helping him grow “in age, wisdom and grace.”
Who is St. Joseph?
This mother of St. Augustine prayed and worked for years for her son’s conversion.
Who is St. Monica?
Beheaded on Tower Hill in 1535 for refusing to acknowledge Henry VIII as head of the Church in England, this Bishop of Rochester became a martyr.
Who is St. John Fisher?
On the road to Damascus, this persecutor of Christians encountered the risen Christ, was struck blind, and became an apostle to the Gentiles.
Who is St. Paul?
After his wife died, this father devoted himself to raising their daughters and supported his youngest, Thérèse, in pursuing religious life—even accompanying her to Rome to seek permission for her to enter Carmel at age fifteen.
Who is St. Louis Martin?
This archangel is associated with an apparition at Monte Gargano
According to the traditional account of her martyrdom, this Roman saint survived three sword strikes to the neck and lived for three more days.
Who is St. Cecilia?
After a cannonball wounded him at Pamplona, this future founder of the Jesuits read the lives of Christ and the saints while recovering—and began turning away from worldly ambition to follow Christ.
Who is St. Ignatius of Loyola?
Christian tradition names this saint, husband of St. Anne, as the father of the Blessed Virgin Mary. 1
Who is St. Joachim?
Catholics celebrate this penitential saint, famous in the Gospel accounts, on July 22.
Who is St. Mary Magdalene?
Tradition remembers this Bishop of Beneventum as one of seven Christians beheaded at Pozzuoli during the persecution of Diocletian.
Who is St. Januarius?
While in Italy after her husband’s death, this New York widow was drawn to the Catholic faith by the example of the Filicchi family. Despite opposition from relatives and friends, she was received into the Church in 1805 and later founded the Sisters of Charity of St. Joseph.
Who is St. Elizabeth Ann Seton?
This French king and saint was the father of eleven children with his wife, Marguerite of Provence.
Who is St. Louis the IX?
While serving as a Roman soldier in Amiens, this future bishop cut his cloak in half and gave one part to a shivering beggar.
Who is St. Martin of Tours?
This bishop of Paris was beheaded on the highest hill in Paris for his faith alongside his companions, Rusticus and Eleutherius. Legend says, he then walked several miles carrying his severed head, preaching repentence.
Who is St. Denis?
After years of studying Church history and concluding that Christian unity and doctrinal authority belonged to the living Catholic Church, this former Anglican clergyman was received into the Catholic Church in 1845 by a Passionist priest.
Who is St. John Henry Neuman?
This saint and English statesman was a devoted father of four children, taking an active role in their religious, moral, and intellectual education.
Who is St. Thomas More?