Saint Winifred (or Winefride; Welsh: Gwenffrewi; Latin: Venefreda or Vinifreda) was a Welsh virgin-martyr of the 7th century. Her story was celebrated as early as the 8th century, but became popular in England in […]

Known today as “the Little Flower,” St. Therese was born in Lisieux (lees-YUH), France in 1873, the pampered daughter of a mother who had wanted to be a saint and a

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati (1901—1924) is a saint for the young people of our time. Born in 1901 in Turin, Italy, Pier Giorgio was a model of virtue, a “man of

St. Kateri Tekakwitha is the first Native American to be recognised as a saint. She was born in 1656, in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon, later known as Auriesville, New

Bl. Isidore Bakanja, a member of the Boangi tribe, was born in Bokendela (Congo) between 1880 and 1890. In order to survive, even as a boy, he had to work

Saint Josephine Margaret Bakhita was born around 1869 in the village of Olgossa in the Darfur region of Sudan. She was a member of the Daju people and her uncle

St. Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru on December 9, 1579. Martin was the illegitimate son to a Spanish gentlemen and a freed slave from Panama, of African

The first recorded Christian from Africa was the man from Ethiopia, whom St. Philip the Deacon evangelised on his chariot and baptised along the road, as recorded in the Acts of

The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at The Oratory was an outstanding evening of adoration, musical beauty and excellence on Friday, 16th December. It was exhilarating to be enveloped