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Four-State Abortion Empire Crumbles Following Botched Abortion
The empire of a troubled New Jersey abortionist who headed a four-state abortion ring is slowly crumbling after ...
Don Bosco Relics Coming to United States and Canada
The relics of St. John Bosco will arrive Saturday in San Francisco to begin the U.S. and Canadian segments of a ...
St. Adrian
According to legend Adrian was a pagan officer at the imperial court of Nicomedia. Impressed by the courage of a ...
St. Adela
Benedictine noblewoman. Adela was the wife of Count Baldwin IV of Flanders. When the count died, she entered the ...
Bl. Anthony of St. Bonaventure
A martyr of Japan, a Franciscan. Anthony was born in 1588 in Tuy, Galicia, Spain, and was educated in Salamanca. ...
Bl. Thomas of St. Hyacinth
Japanese martyr. A native catechist, he assisted the Dominican mission in Japan until his arrest by authorities. ...
Bl. Thomas Tomaki
Japanese martyr. A young boy, he was beheaded with his father, Blessed John Tomaki, and three brothers.
St. Timothy & Faustus
Two martyrs who were executed in Antioch (modern Turkey), in some unknown year.
St. Corbinian
A bishop ordained by Poe St. Gregory II, an evangelist to Germany. Born in 670, Corbinian, a Frank, lived as a ...
St. Disibod
An Irish bishop also called Disen or Disibode. Discouraged by his lack of success as a missionary in Ireland, he ...
Bl.Dominic of Nagasaki
Japanese martyr. Arrested, this native Japanese received the Franciscan habit from Blessed Anthony of St. ...
St. Eusebius
Martyr with two brothers, Nestabus and Zeno. They destroyed a pagan temple in Gaza, Israel, and were arrested. ...
St. James Fayashida, Blessed
Japanese martyr. A native of Japan, he became a Christian and entered the Dominicans as a tertiary. He was ...
Bl. John Inamura
Japanese martyr who died at Nagasaki with Blessed John Tomaki for refusing to deny the Christian faith. They were ...
Bl. John Tomaki
Japanese martyr and Dominican tertiary. He was the father of four sons, also martyred at Nagasaki.
St. Kingsmark
A Scottish chieftain, also called Cynfarch. He lived in Wales, where he is venerated.
Bl. Lawrence Jamada
Martyr of Japan. He was the son of Blessed Michael Jamada and a Dominican tertiary. Lawrence was beheaded at ...
Bl. Leo Kombiogi
Martyr of Japan. A Dominican tertiary, he was beheaded at Nagasaki, Japan. Leo was beatified in 1867.
Bl. Louis Nifaki
Martyred Japanese Dominican tertiary. Arrested for sheltering missionaries. Louis was beheaded at Nagasaki, Japan, ...
St. Louis of Omura
Martyr of Japan. She was a Japanese who was arrested for being a Christian. Louise was martyred at Omura, Japan.
