Saint Onofrio of Panaia, also known as Onofrio Catanzaro, Onofrio the Hermit, or Onofre, was a revered Catholic saint who lived a life dedicated to prayer, solitude, and spiritual discipline. He is particularly venerated in Calabria, Italy, where he spent most of his life as a hermit in the forests of Panaia. Onofrio was born in the town of Catanzaro in Calabria, around the end of the 10th...

Waltheof (c. 1095 – 1159) was a 12th-century English abbot and saint. He was the son of Simon I of St Liz, 1st Earl of Northampton and Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon, thus stepson to David I of Scotland, and the grandson of Waltheof, Earl of Northampton. Whether as a result of being a younger son in the world of Norman...

The image of Our Lady of the Angels is only about three inches high, and is carved in a simple fashion on dark stone. She has a round, sweet face, slanted eyes and a delicate mouth. Her coloring is leaden, with scattered golden sparkles. She carries the Christ Child on her left arm. Only the faces of Mary and the Child are visible; the rest is covered by a cloak that is gathered in pleats. The...

The Martyrs of Nowogrodek were a group of eleven Polish nuns from the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth who were shot on August 1, 1943 by Gestapo men in the forest near Nowogródek in Poland (now Belarus). They were beatified on March 5, 2000 in Rome by John Paul II. The nuns moved to Nowogródek in 1929 at the request of Msgr. Zygmunt Lozinski to take care of the...

Our Lady of Consolation or Mary, Comforter of the Afflicted (Latin: Nostra Domina de Consolatricis Afflictorum) is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated in the Catholic Church. The origin of this invocation is derived from the Augustinian friars who propagated this particular devotion. Along with Saints Augustine, and Monica, Our Lady of Consolation is one of the three patrons of the...