St Charles Borromeo (November 4) as Archbishop of Milan was hugely influential at the Council of Trent
Spiritual Life
Saint Of The Week
The friar who led an army against the Turks
Friday, 21 October 2011
Saint of the week
St John of Capestrano (October 23) was approaching 70 when he plunged into battle
The much-loved schoolmaster executed under Elizabeth I
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Saint of the week
St Richard Gwyn (October 17) was imprisoned for four years, put in stocks, and disemboweled for his faith
The missionary who laboured to save the most abandoned souls in the world
Friday, 7 October 2011
Saint of the week
St Daniel Comboni (October 10) inspired new European attitudes to Africans
A formidable English bishop who rooted out corruption
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Saint of the week
St Thomas of Hereford (October 2) was canonised only 20 years after his death after some 500 miracles had been attributed to his intercession
The saint who threw Satan out of heaven
Thursday, 22 September 2011
Saint of the week
St Michael the Archangel (September 29) provides aid in the spiritual struggle fought in every human soul
The archbishop who helped restore faith to England after a plague
Friday, 16 September 2011
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St Theodore of Tarsus (September 19) probably never gave England a thought before the age of 66. But English civilisation owes him a great debt
The saint who dreamed of a tree stretching across Ireland
Friday, 9 September 2011
Saint of the week
St Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (September 9) founded a monastery attracting recruits from all over Europe
The Patriarch whose fervour worried his mother
Wednesday, 31 August 2011
Saint of the week
St Laurence Giustiniani (September 5) was born an aristocrat but became renowned for his extreme asceticism
A singularly beneficent power in a period without orthodox medicine
Thursday, 25 August 2011
Saint of the week
St Giles (September 1) is the patron saint of smithies
The blind pro-life activist who puts Britain’s feminists to shame
By Madeleine Teahan