Saints

Laurence was a deacon who worked closely with Pope Sixtus II. He is thought to have been born in Spain, at Huesca, a town in the Aragon region. According to legend he brought the Holy Grail - the chalice which Jesus used at the last supper, to Spain. Today the Holy Grail is venerated in a special chapel in Valencia Cathedral, Spain. Laurence was martyred a few days after Pope Sixtus during the p... Read More

Martyr. Patron of Europe. Edith Stein, born in 1891 in Breslau, (now Wroclaw) in Poland, was the youngest child of a large Jewish family. She was an outstanding student, well versed in philosophy with a particular interest in phenomenology. While Stein had earlier contacts with Roman Catholicism, it was her reading of the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Ávila during summer holidays in Bad Bergz... Read More

Founder of the Poor Clares. Patron of television. Born in Assisi to the Offreduccio family, on 16 July, 1194, at the age of 18 Clare was so impressed by the preaching of Saint Francis she renounced all her possessions and took the habit of a nun. She was formed at two nearby Benedictine convents. Francis then offered her and her companions a small house next to the church of San Damiano which he ... Read More