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  • St John Fisher

    Featured Saint: St John Fisher (1469 -1535) St John Fisher was born the eldest of four children into a moderately prosperous merchant family in Beverley, England. He had a good education and progressed to the University of Cambridge. He was ordained a Priest in 1491 and maintained a long work history with Cambridge University. He…

  • St Thomas More

    Featured Saint: St Thomas More (1478 – 1535) St Thomas More was born into an upper class family in London. He was educated at St Anthony’s School, deemed “one of the finest available”. Between the ages of 12 and 14 he was an attendant to the Archbishop of Canterbury who nominated him for a place…

  • St Aloysius Gonzaga

    Featured Saint: St Aloysius Gonzaga (1568 – 1591) St Aloysius was born the eldest of seven children into the illustrious Italian House of Gonzaga. He was destined to become the next Marquis and, in preparation, given early military experience from the age of 5yrs. At 8 he was sent to Florence to further his education…

  • St Alban

    Featured Saint: St Alban (Died 251 or 304) St Alban was born in St Albans, England, during the time of the persecution of Christians by the Roman Emperor Diocletian. He was a Romano-British pagan but, impressed by the commitment and piety of a Christian Priest, whom he hid from fellow soldiers, he converted to Christianity.…

  • St Romuald

    Featured Saint: St Romuald (951 Approx. – 1027) St Romuald was born into an aristocratic family in Ravenna, Italy. In his youth, he is said to have indulged in the pleasures and sins of the world using the substantial wealth available to him! However, all changed when the 20-year old Romuald watched his father kill an opponent…

  • Matt Talbot

    Featured Person: Venerable Matt Talbot (1856 -1925) The Venerable Matt Talbot was the second of twelve children. He was born into a poor Dublin family in Ireland. His education was short. He took up full time work at the age of twelve in a wine merchant. Then he moved to a whisky distillery and thereafter,…

  • St Joseph Cafasso

    Featured Saint: St Joseph Cafasso (1811 – 1860) St Joseph was born into a peasant family at Castelnuovo d’Asti, Italy. Having decided, at an early age, to become a Priest, he entered the seminary of Turin. After his ordination he continued to teach at the seminary as well as at Turin University and the Institute…

  • St Richard of Chichester

    Featured Saint: St Richard of Chichester (1197 Approx. – 1253) St Richard was born into a ‘gentry’ family at Burford, England, but sadly, orphaned at a young age. He received a good education and worked for his older brother on the family farm estate. St Richard chose a life of study and the Church, rather…

  • St Marie-Marguerite

    Featured Saint: Saint Marie-Marguerite d’Youville (1701 – 1771) Saint Marie-Marguerite was born the eldest daughter of a very poor family near Quebec, Canada.  Her education was short and limited. She married a travelling salesman at 19yrs. She had six children but by the age of 30, her father, husband and four of her children had died. When…

  • St Albert Chmielowski

    Featured Saint: St Albert Chmielowski (1845 -1916) St Albert was born, one of four children, into a wealthy aristocratic family at Krakow, Poland. Sadly both his parents died in his early childhood. St Albert studied agriculture with the intention of managing his family estate, however, he also ventured into civil rights politics and lost a…

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