Every Jan. 27, the Church celebrates St. Angela Merici, foundress of the Order of St. Ursula, whose members are known as Ursulines, the first religious order dedicated entirely to the education of ...

Friar Sánchez described the patron saint of Spanish poets as a discreet and virtuous man who 'did not seek to act for reward ...

As a graduate student, I was first drawn to Angela of Foligno (c. 1248-1309) because of her intensity. Here was a woman who, in a moment of devotion and penitence, stripped herself naked before the ...

One day in the fall of 1291, a woman in her early 40s walked into the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi. A few years earlier, she had experienced a conversion to a life of penance inspired in part by ...