John B. Manos

An Irish priest of noble stock, Gall follows Columban to France, then loses the Italian leg of the trip to a bad bout of illness.

At seven she runs from Avila hoping the Moors will finish the job. Brought home, she starts a hermitage in the garden with her brother.

Zephyrinus hands him the clergy and the cemeteries. Callistus enlarges the Appian Way ground so thoroughly that Rome still calls it his.

Exiled twenty-seven years, crowned at forty, married to please the nobles, and still the angelic purity never left the wedded state.

Twice exiled, once jailed, never sour. Wilfrid spends the fight tying England’s discipline to Peter’s chair, and dies to an angel’s tune.

Three men, different in age and nation, one in faith. Three examinations in Cilicia, and the beasts will not play their part.

Handsome, rich, and honored, Francis opens a queen’s coffin at Granada and vows never again to serve a sovereign who can change like that.

Of the Roman missionaries in Gaul, Denis goes farthest, plants his see at Paris, and leaves Chartres, Senlis, Meaux, and Cologne to his disciples.

A Swedish princess, married in obedience, mother of eight, then foundress of the Order of the Saviour once Ulpho entered the Cistercians.

October keeps the Rosary because the beads are not a hobby. They are how the Church remembers a battle won on its knees.