Here’s the great thing about St. Theodore: His public and professional life began at age 66, and continued for the next 22 years! He served as an archbishop. He founded a school of learning. He made peace between warring kings.
All from the age of 66 onward! Doing his thing from the year 668 to 690! Inspiring!
Thomas of Villanova (1488-1555) had every quality that saints should have (his first words as a baby were “Jesus” and “Mary”; he shunned attention; he p...
Hildegard has often been described as a “polymath”–which, as I found out, means a person with wide-ranging knowledge and learning (which may or may not in...
Cyprian is securely in the upper echelons of Important Saints of the Early Church. He lived in northern Africa during the third century and adroitly dealt with ...
St. John the Dwarf–yes, that was the name attached to this short-of-stature Egyptian who lived primarily in the 4th century–had a story that he loved tellin...
By age 16, Catherine was married, against her will but in obedience to her father, to what the family thought a fine catch for her–a “young nobleman of Geno...
Amatus lived in the sixth and seventh centuries in present-day France. The priesthood seemed an inevitability for him from an early age, and he applied himself ...