Editor
Mario Luiz Valerio Kühl
Editorial Board
Severiano de Oliveira;
Silvia Gabriela Panez;
Marcos Aurelio Chacaliaza
Lives of the Saints
St. Peter of Verona – “Tower of Integrity and Fortitude, Paladin of the Faith”
It was the 13th century and the noble Lady was ill; pestilential worms were proliferating inside her and threatening to take over her entire...
The Martyrdom of St. Jean de Brébeuf
His was a life dedicated to evangelization and crowned with a glorious martyrdom. He is an example for Catholics of all times.
The evangelizing epic...
Blessed Maria Concepción Cabrera de Armida – The Cross and Love Embrace
The extravagant Queen Christina of Sweden liked to apply the following maxim to herself: “There are people for whom everything is permitted and nothing...
Blessed Elizabeth Canori Mora – Seer of the Tribulations of the Church
“Wretched city, ungrateful people! The justice of God will punish you!” “It seemed to me, therefore, that I saw the whole world in disorder,...
St. Francis de Sales – To Love God Without Measure
When the twenty-six-year-old priest set off for the province of Chablais – a region now divided between France and Switzerland – perhaps not even...
Venerable Francisco de Paula Tarín – A Tireless Apostle of Rural Spain
In the first decades of the 19th century, Spain faced a strong anti-clerical movement, which instilled in souls doubts and prejudices about the Catholic...
St. Leonard of Port Maurice – “To die with sword in hand against hell”
The sacred edifice was packed to hear that great preacher. Clothed in the brown tunic of the sons of St. Francis, few knew that...
Servant of God Julio Maria de Lombaerde – A Fiery Missionary in Brazil
Belgium, September 25, 1912. From the river port of Antwerp, on the banks of the Scheldt, the steamship Krefeld sets sail for the icy...
Blessed Camillus Costanzo – The Angel of the Rising Sun
The wood crackled and gradually the flames rose. For a moment, everything seemed to indicate that the supreme sacrifice was over and the victim...
St. Radegunde – A Life of Splendid Contrasts
It was during the fifteenth century that John, Duke of Berry, brother of King Charles V of France, asked for a fragment of St....
Blessed Suzanne-Agathe Deloye – “Happy are those whose way is blameless”
Seven kilometres from the town of Orange, in the south of France, is the small Chapel of Gabet. A naturalistic and distracted gaze could...
St. Lutgardis of Aywières – Conquered by Divine Love from Childhood
In the distant year of 1182, a little girl with bright and lively eyes was born into a family in Tongres, a town in...