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| St.Catherine (Siena, 1347 – Rome, 1380)
She was a herald of peace in a society ravaged by fierce rivalries and worked with courage and generosity to get back the Pope from Avignon (1376) and restore peace in Europe. Deeply in love with her Saviour she spent her life in ardent prayer and works of charity.
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| St.Brigid (Sweden, 1303 – Rome, 1373)
She was a wife, a mother and a lady at court and with her husband they became Franciscan tertiary. Once a widow, she reached Rome and supported by her great love for Christ crucified and the Virgin, she worked steadily for the coming back of the Pope from Avignon and for the peace in Europe so badly ravaged by religious divisions, wars and political disquiet.
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St.Theresa Benedicta of the Cross - Edith Stein
(Germany, 1891 – Auschwitz 1942)
Born in a Jewish family she abandoned her faith when she was still an adolescent. Her love for truth and the friendship with some Christians will lead her into the Catholic Church where she feels a vocation for monastic life. She is a victim of Nazi violence and a witness of how the Christian people is grafted into the Jewish one and of how pagan a people becomes when he attacks his holy roots. |
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| St Benedict (Norcia, 480 – Montecassino, 547)
Father of the western monastic movement, his Rule contributed to the formation of Latin European culture , promoting the fusion of the Roman people with the Barbarians and of the different social classes, developing agriculture , the study of Scriptures and of the Fathers of the Church.
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St.Cyril (Thessalonica, 827 – Rome, 869)
St.Metodius (Thessalonica, 815 - Czech Republic, 885)
Brothers in blood and faith, they preached the Gospel to the Slavs, translating the texts of Scripture and the liturgy into their language, putting the foundations of the literature for those countries.
As faithful children of the Church they travelled to Rome in 867 to ask for Pope’s approbation of the liturgy in Slavonic. Their presence in Rome at that time proved providential because they acted as Pope’s experts in healing the breach caused that year by the patriarch Fotius.
Cyril died in Rome, while Metodius was ordained bishop and appointed legate for the Slavs.
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