Saints

Priest. Founder of the Carthusians. Born in Cologne in 1033 to a noble family, Saint Bruno studied at the cathedral school in Rheims, where he was ordained priest and later taught theology for 18 years. When he criticised his archbishop, who obtained his see through simony, he was discharged from his office at the school. In 1084 with six companions, he withdrew to the Grande Chartreuse, a wild ... Read More

Mystic. Foundress of the Divine Mercy movement. St Faustina was born Helen Kowalska in the village of Glogowiec, Lodz Province in Poland on August 25, 1905. After hearing the Lord's calling from the age of seven she was accepted into the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy as Sister Mary Faustina of the Blessed Sacrament, in Warsaw on 1 August, 1925. In 1928, she took her vows as a... Read More

The apparition of Our Lady of the Rosary is by tradition attributed to Saint Dominic. According to the attribution, the Virgin Mary appeared to St Dominic in 1208, in the church of Prouille, in France and introduced him to the rosary. For centuries, Dominicans became instrumental in spreading the practice of praying the rosary. Today's feast was introduced by St Pius V, who was also a Dominican,... Read More