All Saints' Day

He was born in Italy in 1815.  He founded a school and a boarding home for boys, and taught them how to use a printing press. He had many lifelike spiritual dreams about heaven and hell, which he passed on to his boys.  He also performed circus acts to get the boys to listen to his sermons. 

• St. John Bosco
• St. Francis of Assisi
• St. John Newman
• St. Henry

He was born in France, in 1567.  He is one of the doctors of the Church. He is best known for his strong preaching against Calvinism in Geneva, which brought many protestants back to the Catholic Church. 

• St. Francis of Assisi
• St. Francis de Sales
• St. Anthony
• St. Anselm

She was born in Poland in 1891, to Jewish parents.  By age thirteen, she had lost all interest in Judaism.  She received a PhD in Philosophy at age 25. In 1922, she converted to Catholicism.  She became a Carmelite nun in 1934, and became an excellent teacher. However, the Nazis forced her to resign her position.  She escaped to the Netherlands, but the Nazis soon captured her and her sister, also a Catholic convert from Judaism. She was gassed by the Nazis in 1942, in Auschwitz. 

• St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
• St. Elizabeth of Hungry
• St. Maria Goretti
• St. Teresa of Calcutta

He was born in England in 1478.  He became the Lord Chancellor of England for 3 years, a position in power second to the King.  When the King asked him to swear allegiance to him and his newly found Protestantism, he refused. He was taken to the Tower of London, where he awaited his martyrdom for the faith.  He was beheaded by the King in 1535. 

• St. Anthony
• St. Thomas More
• St. Athanasius
• St. Thomas Aquinas

He was born in Italy in 1887, to a farm family.  He became a Capuchin Monk in 1910.  During meditation before a crucifix in 1918, he received the stigmata.  He heard confessions most of the day, with penitents having to take a number to reserve their place in line, days ahead of time.  He had the gifts of beautiful aroma, bilocation, and the ability to know the sins of the penitents before they confessed them. He was harassed by the devil physically and spiritually, having many evil visions, as well as physical struggles with the evil one.  He said 20 or 30 rosaries a day.  His masses lasted up to 3 hours, while he would go into ecstasy during the consecration. 

• St. Anthony of Padua
• St. Francis of Assisi
• St. Padre Pio
• St. Peter

She was born in Italy in 1347.  She had a vision at age 6 where Jesus blessed her.  Refusing her parents’ desire to marry, she became a Dominican mystic and stigmatist.  Later in life, she had another vision where she was married to Jesus, and the infant Jesus presented her a wedding ring.  This doctor of the Church was a counselor to two popes. 

• St. Elizabeth of Hungry
• St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
• St. Catherine of Siena
• St. Maria Goretti

She was born in Italy in 1880.  She was a farm girl, one of 13 children. She became a nun in 1877, working at an orphanage.  When it closed, Pope Leo XIII asked her to move to the US. She founded 67 institutions, including schools, hospitals, and orphanages.  She became a US citizen, and was the first American citizen to be canonized a saint.

• St. Elizabeth of Hungry
• St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
• St. Catherine of Siena
• St. Frances Cabrini

He was born in Egypt, in 251. When his parents died, he sold everything, gave it to the poor, and moved to an abandoned fort in the desert.  Although he wished to live as a hermit, many people were so impressed by him, that they came into the fort to be healed by him, and to have his spiritual counsel.  He soon founded 2 monasteries on the Nile River.  At one point, he left his seclusion to go fight the Arian heresy, but he soon returned to the desert, living in a cave.  He and his followers had many demonic temptations, which they overcame by prayer and fasting. 

• St. Anthony of Padua
• St. Mark
• St. Anthony of the Desert
• St. Francis

He was born in a stable, in 1603, the son of a poor carpenter.  At age 8 he received ecstatic visions from heaven.  Having a hot temper, his mother continuously worked on him to overcome it.  Working as a shoemaker, he applied to become a Capuchin monk, but his ecstasies caused his superiors to reject him.  Finally becoming an oblate at a Franciscan monastery, his ecstasies helped him to overcome his lack of education, solving many problems for himself and others.  His ecstasies also caused him to levitate while saying Mass, which caused his superiors to forbid him from saying Mass in public.  He even survived being interrogated by the Inquisition.

• St. Joseph of Cupertino
• St. John Bosco
• St. Anthony of the Desert
• St. Anthony of Padua

He was born in Italy in  1515, the son of a notary.  As a young layman, he taught humanities to the Dominicans.  He took care of the poor, and soon received a vision of  a globe of fire that entered his chest and enlarged his heart, all the while in pure ecstasy.  Becoming a priest, he heard many confessions and had the gift of knowing the penitent’s sins before they confessed them.  Turning down the job of Cardinal, and beset by charges of heresy for having lay preachers, he died in 1595. 

• St. Francis of Assisi
• St. Thomas Aquinas
• St. Philip Neri
• St. Joseph of Cupertino