Giovanni Battista Scalabrini was born on July 8, 1839 in Fino Mornasco, Como, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, third of eight children. From childhood, Giovanni was noted for being very bright and …
Mona Tyndall was born April 14, 1921 in Ireland, one of six children of a businessman and his wife, and grew up in County Dublin. In 1940, Mona joined the …
Guido Vidal França Schäffer, often called “The Surfer Angel,” was born in the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 22, 1974. His father was a physician, and his …
Mary Elfrieda Scruggs was born on May 8, 1910 in Atlanta, Georgia, second of eleven children. Though she was born in Georgia, she grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. At the …
Throughout the more than 2,000-year history of Catholic Christianity, there have always been people who have had a very special, very noble devotion to the care of children. One such …
Sandra Sabattini was born on August 19, 1961 in Rimini, Italy, the first of two children. Her brother Raffaele followed and became a medical doctor. The Sabattini family moved to …
Peter Chanel was a nineteenth century foreign missionary whose life shows how we the seeds we sow throughout our lives don’t often produce visible results. It is only much later …
Luigia Rosina Rondi was born in Pedrengo, Italy into a humble Catholic family on December 10, 1924. When she grew up, she became a member of the Sisters of the …
James Anthony Walsh was born on February 24, 1867 in Cambridge, Massachusetts into an Irish-American, Catholic family. After attending public schools for his grade school, James attended a Jesuit high …
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