Saints

Saint Dominic Founder of the Dominicans. Saint Dominic was born at Calaruega in Castile in 1170, the youngest son of the town warden. His uncle educated him and he became an Austin Canon at Osma cathedral. In 1201, he was made sub-prior. Three years later, on his way to Denmark he met the Cathars for the first time. These were a popular sect that lived communally and had a number of extreme beli... Read More

Founder and reformer. The son of a count, Cajetan was born in Vicenza, Italy, in 1480. He graduated from the University of Padua with law degrees. After working in the papal offices in Rome he was ordained a priest. With the death of Pope Julius II in 1513, Cajetan withdrew from the Papal Court. Recalled to Vicenza by the death of his mother, he founded a hospital for incurables in 1522. By 1523... 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