The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, along went some other episcopal conferences around the world, called for the Church Father, Saint Irenaeus (A.D. 140-202) to be declared a Doctor of ...

This is the prison diary of a young woman martyered in Carthage in 202 or 203 CE. The beginning and ending are related by an editor/narrator; the central text contains the words of Perpetua herself.

A child goes to give Pope Francis a hug at the end of his weekly general audience April 19, 2023, in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) Below is the text of Pope Francis’ ...

SAINTS & ART: Steeled by the example of these great saints, let us not be ashamed of proclaiming the name of Jesus in the public and private lives of Canada and the United States. Background: The ...

But Sarah Ruden’s new biography of the martyr dismisses her Christian community as misogynist. In the spring semester of anno Domini 2000, I was a first-year college student enrolled in a survey of ...

Blessed Titus Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite martyred at the Dachau concentration camp, is pictured in an undated photo. He is among 10 new saints to be proclaimed by Pope Francis at a May 15 Vatican ...

The artist reflects on the meaning of martyrdom today in his bold new project at the National Gallery. Artist Ming Wong posing as modern day Saint Sebastian in front of the altarpiece The Martyrdom of ...

Weiner, Mina Rieur, ed., "Edwin Howland Blashfield: Master American Muralist," New York, NY: W. W. Norton and Company, 2009, pg. 116-117. The information provided about this artwork was compiled as ...

A number of young catechumens were arrested, Revocatus and his fellow slave Felicitas, Saturninus and Secundulus, and with them Vibia Perpetua, a newly married woman of good family and upbringing. Her ...