Frances Xavier Cabrini
Italian religious sister (1850-1917), foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and apostle to Italian immigrants in …
Patronage
Migrants
4 saints
Francesco Zirano
A Sardinian Franciscan priest, Francesco Zirano was martyred and flayed alive in Algiers in 1603 for refusing to renounce his Christian fait…
Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
Bishop of Piacenza and founder of the Missionaries of St. Charles (Scalabrinians), Giovanni Battista Scalabrini (1839-1905) dedicated his ep…
Saint John Macias
A Spanish Dominican friar who emigrated to Peru, John Macias spent his life as the porter of the Convent of Saint Mary Magdalene in Lima, de…