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...

St. Albinus was born to a noble family of Brittany and grew to be a pious child. He became a monk from his mid-20's into his 60's at Timcillac, which later renamed itself Saint Aubin's in his honor. He was elected Abbot for 25 years, beginning in 504. In 529 he was installed as Bishop of the diocese of Angers, France from c.529. His episcopacy was known for his charity to the poor,...

Chapdelaine was born on a farm in La Rochelle-Normande, France. By the age of twenty, he had entered the seminary at Coutances. He was ordained a priest in 1843 and in 1851 joined the Institute of Foreign Missions in Paris. He left from Antwerp in April 1852 to join the Catholic mission in the Guangxi province of China. The Taiping Rebellion led to suspicion of Christians and foreigners were...