Saints

Abbot. A patron of pregnant women. Dominic was born in 1000, at Rioja in Navarre. His parents were farmers and he worked the land with them for some years before becoming a monk. He was later ordained priest and became prior at St Milan de la Congolla, however after a dispute over property rights he was exiled with two companions. Ferdinand I of Old Castile welcomed these monastic refugees and g... Read More

Thomas De, Dominic Uy, Augustine Moi, Francis Xavier Mau and Francis Man, were Vietnamese catechists who were martyred together in 1839, under the persecution of the Emperor Minh Mang. Thomas De was a tailor who entered the Dominicans as a tertiary. Arrested on the charge of giving aid and shelter to foreign missionaries, he was strangled at the age of 26. Augustine Moi, also a Dominican tertiar... Read More

Jesuit Priest and Doctor of the Church. Peter Canisius worked tirelessly to defend the Catholic faith during the Protestant Reformation in Germany, Austria, Bohemia, Moravia, and Switzerland. The restoration of the Catholic Church in Germany after the Reformation is largely attributed to the work there of the Society of Jesus, which he led. Peter Canisius was born in 1521 in Nijmegen in the Duch... Read More