Lives of the Saints Archives

Christ Thirsts for Man’s Charity

Fr. Ignatius of the Side of Jesus, Passionist

The last moments of our dying Redeemer are at hand. His throat being parched, and His whole Body consumed with inward fever owing to the

Three Sources of Spiritual Aridity from St. Teresa of Avila

Fr. Peter Rohrbach

Aridity, which may be defined as the withdrawal of consolation and enthusiasm in loving Christ, is best combatted by attacking its causes. There are three

The Incomplete Repentance of Judas Iscariot

Fr. James Groenings

There is no doubt that Judas was sorry for his treason. Holy Writ tells us that he repented himself. However, let us examine both the

Blessed Helen Duglioli

Joan Carroll Cruz

Blessed Helen was a member of the Valentini family of Udine, Italy, and was given in marriage at the age of fifteen to a knight

All Souls’ Day

Dr. Paul Thigpen

St. Catherine of Genoa had a vision of the souls in purgatory, which she carefully described and explained in a treatise on the subject. She

A Look At Sainthood

Fr. Alban Butler

The Church pays, day by day, a special veneration to some one of the holy men and women who have helped to establish it by

The Saintly Shepherdess: St. Germain Cousin

Joan Carroll Cruz

In the apostolic brief that placed the pious shepherdess St. Germaine Cousin among the Blessed, she is described as “a simple maiden, humble, and of

Mary, Our Model of Silence and Humility

Peter Kreeft

We have two voices in our souls. One is the voice of foolishness and fear, which seeks diversions. The other is the voice of truth.

Man: The New Angel

Mike Aquilina

We’re part stone, part angel A human being, says St. Gregory the Great, is in a way a representation of the whole universe. We have

The First Shall Be Last

Fr. Cajetan Mary da Bergamo

We have to practice two kinds of humility toward all our neighbors—one is of knowledge, the other of affection. The humility of knowledge consists in

The Centurion’s Conversion at the Cross

Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich

Jesus was almost fainting; His tongue was parched, and He said: “I thirst!” The disciples who were standing round the Cross looked at Him with

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You are great, O Lord, and to be praised indeed: great is your power, and your wisdom is beyond reckoning. And man, a mere part of your creation, desires to praise you, man, who bears his mortality about with him, and the testimony of his sin, and testimony that you resist the proud; and still this man, this part of your creation, desires to praise you. You rouse him up to take delight in praising you for you have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.

A Royal Example for the Laity

Joan Carroll Cruz

Saint Elizabeth, Queen of Portugal (1271-1336) Elizabeth (or Isabel) was born in 1271 to Peter III, King of Aragon, Spain, and Constantia, daughter of Manfred,