Today is the feast day of St. Martin de Porres, one of my favourite saints. St. Martin was born in Lima, Peru on December 9, 1579 to a Spanish nobleman and a freed slave from Panama. His parents were never married, and his father abandoned his family after St. Martin’s sister was born. St. Martin ...read more

Your brief introduction to Blessed Marguerite Bays, the "simple Swiss seamstress" to be canonized this fall. ...read more