Joan of Arc, a peasant girl from Domrémy, changed the course of the Hundred Years' War by leading France to victory over ...

Joan of Arc, a peasant girl from Domrémy, altered the course of the Hundred Years' War by leading France to victory over ...

There are at least 34 documented stories of transgender saints’ lives, three of which had widespread popularity in medieval ...

"It's a sacrifice — just like the one Jesus made for us," said Sr. Stella Aketch "The Ugandan martyrs also gave their lives ...

They were tortured and massacred “out of hatred for the Christian faith,” a phrase traditionally used for martyrs ... the Sisters of Saint Zita. One of her students was a future saint ...

While beheadings grab headlines, poverty and cultural friction push emigration to the West—where the welcome is not always ...

As noted by the Women’s and Gender Studies Program ... She divided her lecture into talking about three different virgin martyr saints: St. Margaret, St. Christina of Bolsena and St. Cecilia. Horner ...

Many of our earliest female martyr saints – such as Saints Agatha, Agnes, Lucy and Cecilia, who are named in one of our Eucharistic prayers at Mass – are considered consecrated virgins. With the ...

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Both women were deeply devout Christians. Ahmet would permit the old woman to go to church on feast days. Taking the blessed bread or antidoron from the church and back to the house, she would give it ...

Here men bear mute witness that the Christ—whose birth the outside world celebrates unthinkingly at Christmas—can still inspire a living faith for which men and women even now endure im ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday decided to make the Martyrs of Compiègne ... by what happened to these women. In many ways, it resembles the reactions of the Romans when Saint Lawrence was burned ...