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Saints 11
Pope John Paul II
Karol Józef Wojtyła was born on May 18, 1920, in Wadowice, Poland, the youngest of three children of a devout Catholic family. His early life was shaped by loss — his mother died when he was eight, his older brother when…
Francisco Marto
Born June 11, 1908, in Aljustrel, a small hamlet near Fátima in central Portugal, Francisco de Jesus Marto was the fourth of seven children of Manuel Pedro Marto and Olímpia de Jesus. His younger sister Jacinta and his c…
Jacinta Marto
Born March 11, 1910, in Aljustrel, near Fátima, Portugal, Jacinta de Jesus Marto was the youngest of seven children of Manuel Pedro Marto and Olímpia de Jesus. Seven years old at the time of the apparitions, she was the …
Catherine Labouré
Born May 2, 1806, in Fain-lès-Moutiers, Burgundy, France, Zoé Labouré was the ninth of eleven children of a farming family in the Côte-d’Or. Her mother died when she was nine years old. She later said she took the househ…
Padre Pio
Francesco Forgione was born on May 25, 1887, in Pietrelcina, a small hill town in the Campania region of southern Italy. He was the fourth of eight children in a devout peasant family; his father emigrated to America twi…
Faustina Kowalska
Helena Kowalska was born on August 25, 1905, in Głogowiec, a small village in central Poland, the third of ten children in a poor farming family. She felt drawn to religious life from childhood but her family could not a…
Gianna Beretta Molla
Gianna Beretta was born on October 4, 1922, in Magenta, near Milan, the tenth of thirteen children in a devout Catholic family. Several of her siblings also pursued religious life; the family's faith was not nominal but …
Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 at Ossernenon, a Mohawk village in present-day Auriesville, New York. Her father was a Mohawk chief; her mother was an Algonquin woman who had converted to Christianity. When Kateri was…
Louis Martin
Louis Joseph Aloys Stanislaus Martin was born on August 22, 1823, in Bordeaux, France, the son of a soldier in the post-Napoleonic army. His childhood was spent moving between garrison towns before the family settled in …
Zélie Martin
Azélie-Marie Guérin was born on December 23, 1831, in Gandelain, a small village near Alençon in Normandy, France. She was baptized on Christmas Eve. Her father was a gendarme; her childhood was marked by strictness and …
Carlo Acutis
Carlo Acutis was born on May 3, 1991, in London, where his Italian parents were temporarily living. He was raised in Milan, and from his earliest years showed an unusual spiritual seriousness that coexisted with an entir…
Miracles 13
Our Lady of La Salette
On September 19, 1846, two shepherd children — Mélanie Calvat, aged fourteen, and Maximin Giraud, aged eleven — reported seeing a weeping woman on the slopes of a mountain above La Salette in the French Alps. The woman s…
Our Lady of Pontmain
On the evening of January 17, 1871, near the end of the Franco-Prussian War, two brothers — Eugène Barbedette, aged twelve, and Joseph, aged ten — reported seeing a silent, smiling woman in the night sky above their farm…
Our Lady of Fatima
From May to October 1917, three shepherd children in a village near Fátima, Portugal, reported six apparitions of a luminous woman who identified herself as Our Lady of the Rosary. Lúcia dos Santos was ten years old; her…
Our Lady of Siluva
In 1608, in the village of Siluva in central Lithuania, a group of children reported seeing a young woman weeping and holding an infant on a large rock in a meadow. The apparition recurred and drew adult witnesses. The w…
The Miracle of the Sun
On October 13, 1917, at the Cova da Iria near Fátima, Portugal, an estimated 70,000 people gathered in the rain to witness a promised sign. For months, ten-year-old Lúcia dos Santos had told investigators and pilgrims th…
Healing of Consiglia De Martino
Consiglia De Martino was a married woman with three children living in Salerno, Italy. On October 31, 1995, she began to feel acute pain in her chest, followed by the rapid growth of a large mass below her left collarbon…
Healing of Jake Finkbonner
Jake Finkbonner was a six-year-old boy and member of the Lummi Nation, living in Ferndale, Washington, in the northwest corner of the state near the Canadian border. In February 2006, he was playing basketball when he fe…
Healing of Matheus (Pancreatic Disease)
Matheus Vianna was a young child living in Campo Grande, in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul. He had been diagnosed with annular pancreas — a congenital condition in which a ring of pancreatic tissue wraps aroun…
Healing of Maria Emilia Santos
Maria Emilia Santos lived at the Institute of Saint Francis in Leiria, Portugal, a care facility for people with chronic illness. By 1987 she had been paralyzed and largely confined for approximately twenty-two years fol…
Our Lady of Beauraing
Between November 29, 1932, and January 3, 1933, five children from two families in Beauraing, Belgium — the Voisin and Degeimbre children, aged nine to fifteen — reported thirty-three apparitions of the Virgin Mary in th…
Eucharistic Miracle of Buenos Aires
On August 18, 1996, at the Parish of Santa María in the Caballito neighborhood of Buenos Aires, a consecrated host was found desecrated at the base of a candle holder in the back of the church. Following standard protoco…
Lourdes Healing of John Traynor
John Traynor was born in Liverpool in 1883. During the First World War he served in the Royal Naval Division and was severely wounded by machine-gun fire in 1915 at Gallipoli, sustaining injuries to his head and chest. T…
Our Lady of Gietrzwald
During the summer of 1877, two thirteen-year-old girls — Justyna Szafrańska and Barbara Samulowska — reported a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Gietrzwald, in the Warmia region of Poland, then under Prussian …