Isaac Jogues and his companions were the first martyrs of the North American continent officially recognized by the Church. As a young Jesuit, Isaac Jogues, a man of learning and culture, taught literature in France. He gave up that career to work among the Huron Indians in the New World, and in 1636, he and his companions, under the leadership of Jean de Brébeuf, arrived in Quebec.
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St. Proculus of Pozzuoli (San Procolo) was an early Christian deacon and martyr who lived in the Campanian city of Pozzuoli, near Naples. According to ancient tradition, he served the local Christian community during the persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian in the early fourth century. He is remembered as one of the companions of St. Januarius (San Gennaro), the famous...
In the Hebrew Bible, Hosea, also known as Osee, son of Beeri, was an 8th-century BC prophet in Israel and the nominal primary author of the Book of Hosea. He is the first of the Twelve Minor Prophets, whose collective writings were aggregated and organized into a single book in the Jewish Tanakh by the Second Temple period (forming the last book of the Nevi'im) but which are distinguished...
Gall was a priest and abbot, a disciple of Columbanus, who was born in Ireland about 545. He studied at Bangor Abbey under Comgall of Bangor and Columba. He was one of the twelve who went with Columbanus to France and helped found Luxeuil Abbey. In 610 he went into exile with Columbanus, and then on to Austrasia, where his preaching around Lake Zurich and near Bregenz had little success....
Teresa of Ávila (born Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda Dávila y Ahumada; 28 March 1515 – 4 or 15 October 1582), religious name Teresa of Jesus, was a Carmelite nun, prominent Spanish mystic and spiritual reformer.
Active during the Counter-Reformation, Teresa became the central figure of a movement of spiritual and monastic renewal, reforming the Carmelite orders of both women and men. The...