Saints

Jesuit lay-brother and martyr. There is no record of his family, birthplace, date of birth, or baptism. Nicholas was a carpenter and servant of the Society of Jesus. He joined the order around 1580. At the execution of St Edmund Campion he openly declared him innocent and was imprisoned. After his release he served Fathers Henry Garnett and John Gerard for eighteen years. Small in stature - he was... Read More

Abbot. Born in Co Meath, during the 6th century, Enda was a boy soldier who became a monk. He was trained at St Ninian's monastery in Whithorn, Galloway and then returned to Drogheda and founded monastic communities in the Boyne valley, before settling in Inishmore in the Aran Islands. This became his base. Many monks came to to join him there including Ciaran of Clonmacnoise. Enda was the earli... Read More

Reforming bishop. A patron of missionaries and South America. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrobejo was born in Mayorga, in Spain, in 1538. A law professor at the University of Salamanca, he was appointed chief judge of the Inquisition at Granada by King Philip II. He was still a layman, when in 1580, he was made a bishop and sent to work in Lima, Peru. He arrived in the following year to find the huge... Read More