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...
Saint Dominic Loricatus, also known as Domenico Loricato, was born in 995 in Italy. He is well-recognized for his extraordinary devotion to penance and asceticism throughout his life. Dominic's path as a saint began under unique circumstances, as his parents committed the sin of simony in their zeal to secure his ordination. To rectify the sinful act committed on his behalf, Dominic...