Saint Anthony of Padua (Ferdinand)
Born in Lisbon in 1195, Ferdinand became Anthony upon joining the Franciscans to seek martyrdom. A prodigious preacher a…
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Born in Lisbon in 1195, Ferdinand became Anthony upon joining the Franciscans to seek martyrdom. A prodigious preacher a…
Portuguese Dominican, Archbishop of Braga and a major figure of the Council of Trent, Bartholomew of the Martyrs was a r…
A Christian virgin of Caesarea, Dorothy refused to sacrifice to idols before the judge Sapricius. After converting two a…
A Portuguese Jesuit and visitor to the missions in Brazil, Ignatius of Azevedo was martyred in 1570 with thirty-nine com…
Jacinta Marto (1910-1920) was the youngest of the three shepherds of Fatima, witnesses to the Marian apparitions of 1917…
Portuguese priest (1899-1966), founder of the Obra de Santa Zita and the Secular Institute of the Cooperators of the Fam…
A Portuguese Jesuit missionary in South India, John de Brito adopted the lifestyle of Tamil ascetics and was beheaded in…
A 17th-century Portuguese Jesuit, John de Britto dedicated his life to the evangelization of India, adopting local custo…
Born Giulio Cesare in Brindisi, Lawrence became an eminent Capuchin, theologian, and diplomat in the service of the papa…
Luiza Maria Andaluz (1877-1973) was a Portuguese religious sister, foundress of the Congregation of the Servants of Our …
A Portuguese priest and key witness to the apparitions of Fatima, Venerable Manuel Nunes Formigão founded the Congregati…
Portuguese Blessed (1843-1899), foundress of the Congregation of the Franciscan Hospitaller Sisters of the Immaculate Co…
María Emilia Riquelme y Zayas (1847-1940) was a Spanish religious sister, foundress of the Congregation of the Missionar…
A religious of the Congregation of the Good Shepherd, she inspired Pope Leo XIII to consecrate the human race to the Sac…
A Spanish nobleman who became a Dominican after a humiliating fall from his horse, Peter Gonzalez served as an advisor t…
Peter Kibe and his 187 companions are a group of Japanese Catholic martyrs put to death for their faith in the 17th cent…
Peter Kibe Kasui and his 187 companions are Japanese Catholic martyrs put to death for their faith between 1603 and 1639…
Foundress of the Congregation of the Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena in Portugal, she dedicated her life t…