The family of Catholic converts killed by the Nazis • The Munk Family

He sacrificed himself to save parishioners from a bomber • Servant of God Akash Bashir

The 6-yr-old who could become the youngest Catholic saint • Venerable Antonietta Meo

The Wisconsin missionary killed in Guatemala • Blessed James Miller

Holy Catholics who lived with disabilities

The nun who refused to abandon POWs in WWII • Blessed Janina Szymkowiak

The Maronite blessed who helped the needy during WWI • Blessed Estephan Nehme

He sacrificed himself to rescue drowning students • Servant of God Pedro Manuel Salado

The convert who led her community during persecution • Blessed Victoire Rasoamanarivo

The priest buried alive in the communist "swamp of death" • Blessed Josif Papamihali

"The American Don Bosco" • Venerable Nelson Baker

Catholic priests who were murdered in their own churches

Catholic convert and daughter of Nathaniel Hawthorne • Venerable Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

The Ukrainian priest who disappeared in Communist custody • Blessed Roman Lysko

The saint who helped workers and faced betrayal • Saint Leonie Aviat

The Catholic judge killed by the mafia • Blessed Rosario Livatino

Holy men and women who converted to Catholicism

The poet killed because he wouldn't abandon a leper colony • Servant of God John Bradburne

She gave up love to grow closer to Jesus • "Chiquitunga" • Blessed Maria Guggiari Echeverria

The brave missionary who died after torture in China • Father Frederic Vincent Lebbe

The 12-year-old Louisiana girl who could be a saint • Servant of God Charlene Richard

Inspirational examples of Catholic fatherhood

She turned heartbreak and grief into many good works • Venerable Silvia Cardoso

The Catholic journalist who saved Jewish people in WWII • Blessed Odoardo Focherini

She gave up life in a palace to fight slavery • Blessed Maria Teresa Ledochowska

The priest executed for baptizing a baby • Blessed Shtjefen Kurti

Holy Catholics who struggled with anger and resentment

The nun who died because she insulted Hitler • Venerable Angela Maria Autsch

The shy young Irishman who became a superstar missionary • Servant of God Alfie Lambe

The priest buried alive by communists • Blessed Mario Borzaga

The childless widow who was a mother to the poor • Servant of God Matilde Salem

Inspirational Catholic Mothers

The brilliant doctor who saved patients from a volcano • Saint Giuseppe Moscati

The priest killed for opposing drugs & prostitution • Servant of God Nazareno Lanciotti

The dying teenager who brought her friends to Christ • Venerable Montserrat Grases

Catholics who faced obstacles finding their vocations

The bishop killed during the worst humanitarian crisis • Servant of God Christophe Munzihirwa

Her atheist husband became a priest after her death • Servant of God Elisabeth Leseur

The nuns who gave their lives to save people from Nazis • The Blessed Martyrs of Nowogrodek

This teen’s life and death inspired everyone • Servant of God Darwin Ramos

Brave last words of Catholic martyrs

The priest who battled depression and mental illness • Blessed Enrico Rebuschini

The nun sentenced to solitary confinement by communists • Servant of God Anna Abrikosova

The doctor, seminarian, and "surfer saint" • Venerable Guido Schaffer

The Catholic brothers who fought Nazis and Communists • Andrey Sheptytsky & Klymentiy Sheptytsky

Future saints who experienced infertility

The Italian friar buried alive by Nazis • Venerable Placido Cortese

The disabled Catholic who cared for the sick • Servant of God Eileen O'Connor

The priest who offered his life for his congregation • Venerable Francis Xavier Truong Buu Diep

She founded the first black Catholic school in the USA • Venerable Mother Mary Lange

Murdered Catholics who forgave their own killers

"God's Architect" • Venerable Antoni Gaudi

The brilliant nun killed by an anarchist • Blessed Marie Deluil-Martiny

The holy toddler who inspired Pope Pius X • Ellen Organ

The brave American bishop murdered in China • Servant of God Francis X. Ford

Future Catholic saints who had their hearts broken

The lawyer who sacrificed his life for a prison hostage • Venerable Franz de Castro Holzwarth

St. Therese of Lisieux's "lame duck" sister? • Servant of God Leonie Martin

The Czech priests murdered after a communist show trial • Jan Bula & Vaclav Drbola

The doctor who was secretly a priest in communist Romania • Venerable Martin Benedict