Stanislaus was born to the Polish nobility, son of Belislaus and Bogna, and raised in a pious family. He was Educated at Gnesen, Poland, and may have studied at Paris, France. When his parents died, Stanislaus distributed his inheritance to the poor. His first ministry was as a parish priest at Czembocz, Poland. He moved on and became a Canon and preacher, and later vicar-general at the Cracow...

Ezekiel is the central protagonist of the Book of Ezekiel in the Hebrew Bible. In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Ezekiel is acknowledged as a Hebrew prophet. In Judaism and Christianity, he is also viewed as the 6th-century BCE author of the Book of Ezekiel that reveals prophecies regarding the destruction of Jerusalem, the restoration to the land of Israel, and what some call the...

St. Prochoros is one of the seven deacons chosen in chapter six of the Acts of the Apostles.  He and his companions were chosen to meet the needs of the Greek or Hellenized (Gentile) converts who were part of the Nazarene community of Jerusalem.  Reputedly, he later became the bishop of Nicomedia and was put to death at Antioch, probably during the persecutions of Emperor Nero...

St. Aedesius was the brother of St. Apphian. A Christian of some note in Caesarea, Aedesius witnessed the persecution of Christians during the reign of Emperor Diocletian (284-305 AD) and publicly rebuked the local Roman officials who were placing Christian virgins in brothels as part of the persecutions.  Arrested, Aedesius was tortured and then drowned.  His feast is kept on April...

Born Jewish, he became an adult convert to Christianity. Hegesippus lived twenty years in Rome, Italy where he researched the early Church, but in later years he retired to Jerusalem. He was the first to trace and record the succession of the bishops of Rome from Saint Peter to his own day, and is considered the father of ecclesiastical history. Little of his writings survive, but he was...