Clement Vismara
An Italian missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME), Blessed Clement Vismara dedicated sixty years of his life to …
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Cristobal and 2 companions (3)
Three young Tlaxcalans converted by the Franciscans, put to death between 1527 and 1529 for their faith, considered the first martyrs of the…
Saint Ghislain (Guillain)
Originally from Athens, Ghislain left his episcopal see following a vision to settle in Hainaut. There, he founded the monastery of La Celle…
Hermann Joseph
A Premonstratensian canon of Steinfeld Abbey who died in 1241, Hermann Joseph was a Rhenish mystic famous for his devotion to the Virgin Mar…
José Sánchez del Río
A fourteen-year-old Mexican boy, José Sánchez del Río was put to death on February 10, 1928, in Sahuayo for refusing to renounce his faith d…
Saint Philomena (19th-century wonderworker)
Greek princess martyred in Rome at the age of thirteen under Diocletian for refusing to break her vow of virginity. Her relics, discovered i…