The first missionary woman to the New World, Marie was born in Tours, France in 1599. Denying her own attraction to religious life, Marie honoured her father’s wishes and married Claude Martin in 1617.  Claude died only three years later.  Soon after, Marie began receiving revelations concerning the Incarnation, the...

BORN:  1347 DIED: 29April 1380 CANONIZED: 1970. PATRONESS OF FIRE PREVENTION Saint Catherine from her childhood consecrated her virginity to God. She was so great a woman who underwent all kinds of humiliations in her own house just because her parents wanted her to marry against her wish and will...

Born in St-Malo, France, Louis Grignion (1673-1716) was the founder of the Company of Mary, the Daughters of Wisdom and the Brothers of St. Gabriel. Ordained in 1700, he was first appointed chaplain to a hospital in Poitiers.  While his introduction of much needed reforms led to the beginning of...

BORN: 1474 (Italy) DIED: 1540 Saint Angela joined the Tertiary of Saint Francis but later in a vision discovered what mission God had for her that of reaching out to souls in a different dimension. She later established a school for the instruction of young girls. Saint Angela was the...