Category: Saints

Marcel Van: A Soul for Priests

Called Not to Be a Priest, But to Be for Priests For a long time, the Servant of God, Vietnamese Redemptorist Brother Marcel Van (1928-1959)...

Soon-to-be-Saint Jeanne Jugan

Today is the feast of Blessed (and soon to be Saint) Jeanne Jugan (1792-1879), foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Blessed Jeanne Jugan,...

Pax tecum, Filumena

Connecticut and Ireland I am writing, dear readers, from Hamden, Connecticut where I am spending a few days with my parents before leaving for Ireland...

Doctor Zelantissimus

Siamo Napoletani Given that grace builds on nature, my Neapolitan ancestry may, in some way, account for my spiritual affinity with Saint Alphonsus Maria Liguori....