Tag: Saints
Pope Francis: St Gabriel an example for young people, 100 years on
Pope Francis sends a letter marking the start of a jubilee year to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the canonisation of Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows.
New Apostolic Letter highlights St Jerome’s love of Scripture
Pope Francis has written an Apostolic Letter for the 1600th anniversary of the death of Saint Jerome the “great doctor and father of the Church, who put the Bible at the centre of his life.”
Pope Francis adds feast of Saint Faustina to Roman Calendar
Pope Francis makes the feast of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska an optional memorial for the universal Church, celebrated on 5 October.
American priest heading for beatification died amid a global pandemic
Fr. Michael McGivney, an American priest soon to be beatified, died amid a 19th-century pandemic which may have been caused by a coronavirus.
‘A Storybook of Saints’ aims to showcase ‘heroic witness’ of saints
A new children’s book aims to tell the heroic stories of saints in a way that captures the interest, and imagination, of Catholic kids.