Talk about a miracle of modern technology! A team of researchers in France claims to have reconstructed the face of St. Mary Magdalene, based on a relic of her skull in that country. Here’s what they came up with: The team took 500 photographs of the skull, housed in...
This guy can sing! Justin Tucker is a kicker for the Baltimore Ravens in the NFL and he’s had quite an impressive career so far, to say the least! He holds several franchise and NFL records, including “Most accurate kicker in NFL history” and “Longest field goal in a...
St. Dominic is one of the Church’s greatest saints, and the order that bears his name, the Dominicans, is one of the Church’s greatest orders. But how many Catholics know the meaning of the Dominican dog? Yes, lots of iconography related to St. Dominic and the Dominicans include...
St. Padre Pio was not only a holy man, miracle worker, and mystic, he was also a prophet. Edward Pentin over at the National Catholic Register recently shared a fascinating story about the saint of Pietrelcina in which he predicted the demographic consequences of widespread abortion that much of the...
These are saints for our times! Ss. Justa and Rufina were sisters born to a poor Christian family in Seville, Spain in the 3rd century. They helped support their family and many of the city’s poor by making pottery. Remember that this was before Constantine, so Christians were still...
Venerable Margaret Occhiena Bosco was born April 1, 1788 in Italy. She was baptized the same day. Her parents were peasants in a small Italian town. There were ten children in her family and many died young. But her family remained close to God. The town was too small to...
