Italy

July 3 – The Pope Who Condemned His Predecessor for Not Opposing Heresy

July 2, 2020

July 5 – He founded the Barnebites and reformed two religious orders, but only lived 37 years

July 2, 2020

June 30 – He began a crusade against the immorality of his time

June 29, 2020

June 28 – He fought to preserve the Pope’s independence

June 25, 2020

June 25 – Servant of God Maria Clotilde of Savoy

June 22, 2020

June 25 – St. Maximus of Turin

June 22, 2020

June 25 – St. William of Vercelli

June 22, 2020

June 19 – St. Juliana Falconieri

June 18, 2020

June 20 – The Pope Who Was the Son of Another Pope, Also a Saint

June 18, 2020

June 21 – He Was More Angel than Man

June 18, 2020

June 22 – St. Paulinus, Bishop of Nola

June 18, 2020

June 16 – Pope Innocent III

June 15, 2020

June 12 – He Crowned Charlemagne

June 11, 2020

June 12 – Saint Guido of Acqui

June 11, 2020

June 9 – A simple palace servant, God confided to her the destiny of nations

June 8, 2020

June 10 – Anti-pagan Renaissance Saint

June 8, 2020

Poverty and Splendor: Harmonious Extremes in the Firmament of the Church

June 4, 2020

June 5 – Franciscan preacher of crusade

June 4, 2020

June 2 – Saved from the Byzantine Emperor’s roaster, ironically, by the Moslems

June 1, 2020

June 4 – St. Francis Caracciolo

June 1, 2020

May 31 – St. Camilla Battista da Varano

May 28, 2020

June 1 – The Aristocrat Who Gave His Life for the Poor

May 28, 2020

May 26 – He converted a young nobleman by showing him a vision of hell, and called the City of Rome his “Desert”

May 25, 2020

May 22 – St. Rita of Cascia

May 21, 2020

May 23 – St. John Baptist de Rossi

May 21, 2020

May 25 – First Pope to transform a pagan temple of Rome into a Christian church

May 21, 2020

May 25 – He Forced the Emperor To Wait Three Days in the Snow

May 21, 2020

May 25 – She withstood the devil

May 21, 2020

May 20 – St. Bernardine of Siena

May 18, 2020

May 20 – Mentor of the Duke of Ferrara

May 18, 2020

May 18 – Martyr of Envy

May 14, 2020

May 13 – “Can anyone receive Jesus into his heart and not die?”

May 11, 2020

May 9 – St. Nicholas Albergati

May 7, 2020

May 7 – The Pope who adopted two princes

May 4, 2020

May 7 – Bl. Agnellus of Pisa

May 4, 2020

May 2 – Economist

April 30, 2020

April 30 – “Thank God for the victory”

April 27, 2020

April 26 – Pope St. Cletus

April 23, 2020

April 27- Abused by her noble patrons, she remained a model of harmony

April 23, 2020

April 17 – Controversial Pope

April 16, 2020

April 19 – The saintly warrior pope

April 16, 2020

April 19 – Blessed Conrad of Ascoli

April 16, 2020

April 10 – Pope Gregory XIII

April 9, 2020

April 11 – American Hero of the Seal of Confession

April 9, 2020

April 12 – Crusader in every sense of the word

April 9, 2020

April 12 – Pope St. Julius I

April 9, 2020

April 13 – Born blind, lame, deformed, hunchbacked and dwarfed

April 9, 2020

April 13 – Pope St. Martin I

April 9, 2020

“Thus Died Bayard” – Part II

April 2, 2020

April 3 – Last survivor of the ancient hierarchy of England

April 2, 2020

April 4 – Crusader Pope

April 2, 2020

April 6 – With his head split open, he wrote on the ground with his own blood: “Credo”

April 2, 2020

March 31 – St. Balbina

March 30, 2020

April 2 – St. Francis of Paola and the Bartlett Pear

March 30, 2020

“Thus Died Bayard”

March 26, 2020

March 27 – Pope Clement III

March 26, 2020

March 27 – The Last French Pope

March 26, 2020

March 28 – Pope Martin IV

March 26, 2020

March 28 – Preacher of Crusades

March 26, 2020

March 29 – One of many Irish missionaries who labored to convert Central Europe

March 26, 2020

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