We cannot forget the sacrifices of the countless faithful who bore witness to Christ during one of the most challenging ...

Mother Teresa of St. Augustine and her 15 companions, who were guillotined in Paris as they sang hymns of praise, are now saints in the Catholic Church. Spain has 3,500 beatified martyrs from the ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB ... or the lives of those in the Church’s calendar of saints.” The National Shrine of Our Lady of Martyrs in Auriesville, New York.

According to one legend, Pope Gelasius wanted to put an end to the debauchery in the late fifth century. He declared Feb. 14 ...

Lichens in his new book, “Weird Catholic Handbook ... art form aimed at celebrating the life, and death, of saints and martyrs. The most spectacular, he says, are found in Melk Abbey ...

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has confirmed the national shrine status of Our Lady of Martyrs Shrine in Auriesville ...

BC sought to acquire the historic windows—depicting Catholic saints, martyrs, and religiously significant moments in the history of the Jesuits—to store in its new Catholic Religious Archives. “The ...

Or is the history darker, marked by Roman bacchanalia, martyrs and ... As many as 50 saints with some variation of the spelling have been recognized by the Catholic Church, said Henry Kelly ...

“We can have saints here, we can have blessed people here in Goma, it’s not impossible,” Abbé Jean Baptiste Bahati, a Catholic priest, said during the commemoration. Being declared a martyr ...