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Saints 2
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…
Maximilian Kolbe
Rajmund Kolbe was born on January 8, 1894, in Zdunska Wola, in Russian-occupied Poland. His parents were devout Franciscan tertiaries; two of their sons entered religious life. Rajmund joined the Conventual Franciscan no…
Miracles 6
Our Lady of Medjugorje
On June 24, 1981, six young people from the village of Medjugorje in what was then Yugoslavia (now Bosnia and Herzegovina) reported seeing a luminous young woman on Podbrdo Hill. The seers — Ivanka Ivanković, Mirjana Dra…
Eucharistic Miracle of Legnica
On Christmas Day, December 25, 2013, during the distribution of Communion at the Sanctuary of Saint Hyacinth in Legnica — a city in Lower Silesia, southwestern Poland — a consecrated host fell from a priest's hands to th…
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
In the summer of 1830, a twenty-four-year-old novice of the Daughters of Charity in Paris received the first of several visions that would eventually result in one of the most widely distributed religious objects in Cath…
Our Lady of the Rosary (Ratisbonne)
On January 20, 1842, Alphonse Ratisbonne, a young Jewish banker from Strasbourg who was openly anti-Catholic, entered the Church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte in Rome on a brief errand. He had reluctantly agreed, days earl…
Our Lady of Laus
Between 1664 and 1718, Benoîte Rencurel, a young shepherdess in the Hautes-Alpes of southern France, reported numerous apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the valley of Laus near the village of Saint-Étienne-le-Laus. Unlik…
Our Lady of Kibeho
Beginning on November 28, 1981, three young women at the Kibeho secondary school in southern Rwanda reported apparitions of the Virgin Mary, who identified herself as *Umubyeyi w'Ijambo* — Mother of the Word. Alphonsine …