Saint Margaret of Scotland, also known as Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess and a Scottish queen. Margaret was sometimes called "The Pearl of Scotland". Born in exile in the Kingdom of Hungary, she was the sister of Edgar Ætheling, the shortly reigned and uncrowned Anglo-Saxon King of England. Margaret and her family returned to the Kingdom of England in 1057, but fled to...

St. Albert the Great (1206-1280) was born in Bavaria, Germany, the eldest son of a powerful military count. As a youth he was sent to study at the University of Padua where he encountered and entered the newly-founded Dominican order as a mendicant friar, forsaking his inheritance against his family's wishes. He was the first Dominican to earn a Master of Theology degree and was sent as a...

Nicholas Tavelic was a Franciscan missionary from Croatia who died a martyr's death in Jerusalem on November 14, 1391. He was beatified as part of Nicholas Tavelic, O.F.M. and companions, which included friars from Italy and France. All four members of his group (Deodatus Aribert of Rodez, Peter of Narbonne and Stephen of Cuneo) have been declared saints by the Catholic Church, making...

Pope St. Nicholas I, also called Saint Nicholas the Great, was Pope from 24 April 858 to his death in 867. He is remembered as a consolidator of papal authority and power, exerting decisive influence upon the historical development of the papacy and its position among the Christian nations of Western Europe. Nicholas I asserted that the pope should have suzerain authority over all Christians,...

They weren't Polish, and they weren't related, but were instead five hermits who were martyred together. They were - Benedict, Krystyn, Isaac, Jan and Mateusz. They were murdered during a robbery on the night of November 10, 1003, most likely in the village of Święty Wojciec near Międzyrzecz. Isaac, Mateusz and Krystyn are the first Polish saints canonized in the history of the...