Often referred to as the Lily of the Mohawks, St. Kateri was born in 1656, the daughter of a Native American warrior. She was baptized at the age of 20 and angered her tribe when she left home, traveling by foot and canoe, to join a colony of Christians in Canada. There she was admired for her humble spirit, reverence and great love of the Eucharist.
Ordained in 1925, Miguel Pro was a Jesuit priest in Mexico where public worship was banned. But Pro was kind and clever. He served the poor unceasingly and performed the...
Born in Germany in 1830, Mother Maria Theresia Bonzel founded the Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration. These amazing nuns ran orphanages, served as battlefield nurses, and even outsmarted...
Stanley Rother was born into a family of hard-working Oklahoma farmers. In 1968, five years into his priesthood, Fr. Rother requested reassignment to a mission in rural Guatemala. There he...