Sylvester was one of the first 12 followers of Saint Francis of Assisi and was the first priest in the Franciscan Order. A descendant of a noble family, Sylvester once sold Francis stones which were to be used to rebuild a church. When, a short while later, he saw Francis and Bernard of Quintavalle distributing Bernard’s wealth to the poor, Sylvester complained that he had been poorly...

St. Kieran or Ciarán of Saigir (5th century – c. 530), also known as Ciarán mac Luaigne or Saint Kieran (Welsh: Cieran), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and is considered the first saint to have been born in Ireland, although the legend that he preceded Saint Patrick is questionable. Ciarán was bishop of Saighir (Seir-Kieran) and remains the patron saint of its successor, the...

Blessed Gjelosh was born on the September 9, 1925, in Ndreaj of Shoshi, of the Diocese of Pult, now The Struga-Pult. From the age of 7, he attended schools in The Minor Frets and then at the Papnor Albanian Seminary. He studied in Italy. He was secretary of the Military Hospital of Kumanovo and a member of the political organization "Albanian Union". He was arrested and imprisoned in...

St. Cunigunde was one of eleven children born to Siegfried I of Luxembourg (922 – 15 August 998) and Hedwig of Nordgau (c. 935 – 992). She was a seventh-generation descendant of Charlemagne. She married St. King Henry in 999. During their marriage, her husband, Henry, then only Duke of Bavaria, was crowned as King of Germany ("Rex Romanorum") on 9 July 1002 in Mainz, in...

St. Luke Casali was educated by the abbot of the monastery of Saint Philip at Agira, Sicily, Italy. He eventually joined the monastic community himself and became the reluctant abbot of his house.  St. Luke eventually, for unknown reasons, went blind. One day while they were travelling to Nicosia, one his monks tried to play a trick on the blind abbot by telling him that some townspeople...