The story of the apostle known as “doubting Thomas” begins after the first Easter. In fear for their lives after the crucifixion of Jesus, the

St. Hallvard Feast day: May 15 In the small army of Scandinavia’s saints, one of the most appealing is St. Hallvard. He was a seafarer

During the eighth century the royal families of England produced a bumper crop of holy men and women. Within Milburga’s immediate family her mother, Ermenburga,

The Bible mentions only three archangels by name – St. Michael, the warrior who drove Lucifer and the rebel angels out of heaven and down

St. Expeditus was one of six Armenian Christians, possibly Roman soldiers, who were martyred in Melitene. His fellow martyrs are Sts. Hermogenes, Gaius, Aristonicus, Rufus and Galata. There is documentary evidence that St. Expeditus was venerated in Turin in northern Italy during the Middle Ages. From there, devotion to him spread to Germany and Sicily in the 17th century, but how he became the saint of procrastinators is harder to pin down.

There are two reasons why St. René Goupil is the patron of anesthesiologists: first, because he had been a student of medicine in France, and second, in tribute to the terrible sufferings he endured at the hands of the Mohawk Indians.