Monastic · July 11
St. Benedict of Nursia
The father of Western monasticism who formed communities around prayer and work.
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319 lives of faith. Showing 1–12.
Founder · October 4
St. Francis of Assisi
A merchant’s son who embraced poverty, peace, and joyful fraternity.
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Founder · August 11
St. Clare of Assisi
A contemplative whose radical poverty shone with quiet strength.
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Doctor of the Church · October 15
St. Teresa of Ávila
A Carmelite reformer who taught the Church the depth of interior prayer.
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Doctor of the Church · October 1
St. Thérèse of Lisieux
A quiet Carmelite whose “little way” found holiness in ordinary love.
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Modern martyr · August 14
St. Maximilian Kolbe
A Franciscan priest who offered his life for another prisoner at Auschwitz.
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Modern religious · February 8
St. Josephine Bakhita
A woman who survived enslavement and became a radiant Canossian sister.
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Doctor of the Church · June 13
St. Anthony of Padua
A Franciscan preacher who made the Gospel clear and challenged injustice.
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Founder · July 31
St. Ignatius of Loyola
A wounded soldier whose conversion became a school of prayer and discernment.
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Modern religious · September 5
St. Teresa of Calcutta
The founder of the Missionaries of Charity who served people on society’s margins.
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Religious founder · January 4
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was an American Catholic educator, known as a founder of the country's parochial school system.
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Bishop · January 5
St. John Neumann
John Nepomucene Neumann was a Bohemian-born American Catholic prelate who served as the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia from 1852 to 1860.
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