Claude La Colombière SJ, was a French Jesuit priest best known as the confessor of Margaret Mary Alacoque. He is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. He was born in 1641 in the city of Saint-Symphorien-d'Ozon, then in the ancient Province of Dauphiné, the third child of the notary Bertrand La Colombière and of Margaret Coindat. The family soon moved to the nearby city of Vienne,...

Saint Juan García Lópezrico, also known as Giovanni Battista della Concezione, Giovanni Garcia Xixon, John Baptist de la Concepción Garcia, John Baptist of the Conception, Juan Bautista Rico, Juan Bautista de la Concepción, Juan García Gijón, Juan García Xixón, and Juan Rico, was born on July 10, 1561, in Almodóvar del Campo, Ciudad Real, Spain. He was the fifth of eight children born to Xixón...

Saint Fulcran of Lodève, also known as Fulcrano or Fulcranno, was a pious and dedicated individual who from an early age decided to dedicate his life to the Church. Born in an unknown year, Fulcran showed exceptional devotion to his faith and became a shining example of piety and virtue. Fulcran was ordained a priest and eventually appointed as the Bishop of Lodève, France. His consecration as...

Saint Benedict of Aniane was responsible for a revival of Frankish monasticism in VIII/IX Centuries. He was the scion of a noble Visigoth family and served as cupbearer to Pepin III and Charlemagne before becoming a monk c. 770/773 at St.-Seine near Dijon. Benedict became a hermit on his family estate and lived on the banks of the Aniane, where several other solitaries joined him. Benedict...

Gregory II was born c. 669. Pope St. Gregory II was the scion of a noble Roman family. Under Sergius I, Gregory was the librarian and the keeper of the purse; he accompanied Pope Constantine when the pope traveled to Constantinople to protest the anti-western canons of the Second Trullan (or Quintisext) Council (692). Successful, the two returned to Rome in 711. Gregory was elected to the...