Saint Nuño de Santa Maria Álvares Pereira was a Portuguese general, born Nuno Álvares Pereira on 24 June 1360 in Cernache do Bonjardim. He was the illegitimate son of Dom Álvaro Gonçalves Pereira, prior of Crato, and Iria Gonçalves do Carvalhal. About a year after his birth a royal decree legitimised him, so he received a knightly education. At 16 he married Leonor de Alvim, a wealthy young...
Ampliatus, called Amplias in the King James Version, was a Roman Christian whom Paul greets in his letter to the Romans: "Greet Ampliatus, whom I love in the Lord." The Eastern Orthodox Church counts him among the Seventy Disciples. Tradition holds that he and his companions joined the Apostle Andrew and died as martyrs. He may have been bishop of Odessos (Varna), in modern Bulgaria....
Saturninus is honored as a Christian martyr of Cagliari in Sardinia. His memory is associated with the persecution under Diocletian, and the National Museums of Cagliari place the traditional martyrdom in 303 or 304.
The later martyrdom tradition presents him as a young man raised by Christian parents. During sacrifices to Jupiter at the city’s Capitolium, someone recognized him as a...
Abraham of Rostov (?–1077), Archimandrite of Rostov, in the world Abercius, was born in the tenth century in Chuhloma, which is in Kostroma region near Galich, Russia. Born Abercius, he was very ill as a child. He converted to Christianity in his youth after, according to tradition, being cured of illness through prayer. He decided to become a monk at Valaam and with the new name...
The Lord of Miracles (Spanish: Señor de los Milagros), also known as Christ of Miracles, is a Catholic devotion and title of Jesus Christ that is associated with a painting of Christ crucified venerated in Lima, Peru. The image was painted during the 17th century by Benito or Pedro Dalcon, an African taken from what is now Angola to Peru as a slave. An annual procession commemorating the image...