Moses the Black is probably one of the most dynamic and exciting saints of all time! This knife-wielding bandit terrorized northeast Africa with his tribe of felons until, while seeking asylum in a monastery, he was moved to change his ways. Though his adventurous spirit never died, Moses eventually became a priest and a spiritual leader of desert hermits.
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...