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        "But, above all, as we have already said, it is a holy life that is indispensable for those who are getting ready for the apostolate. Indeed, it is necessary that the one who preaches God be, in fact, a man of God".  

 


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Biographies and reflections on the lives of witnesses

 

The Martyrs and Saints - canonized or beatified – today’s evangelizers and those of bygone ages, these are the hands and feet of God, carrying the proclamation of the Gospel to peoples of every continent. Their hearts, minds, and activities - indeed, their very lives - announce Christ, the same yesterday, today and always.  

Biography of St. John de Britto

John de Britto was born in Lisbon in 1647 from parents who belonged to the Portuguese aristocracy. He was set and he would have lived his life in the court if he had not fallen seriously ill. Devoted to Saint Francis Xavier and in ...

Biography of St. Peter Calungsod

Pedro Calungsod was a young man from the Visayas region in the Philippines: born in 1654 in the territory of Cebu, he attended the Jesuit missions as a boy until he became a catechist. Young, local natives like Pedro who were ...

Biography of Saint Kateri Tekakwitha

Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 to Iroquois parents in the Ossernenon region, now in New York State, where just a few years earlier Jesuits Jogues, Goupil and de La Lande were martyred. When Kateri was four years old, a ...

Biographies from around the world

Insights

Benedict XVI: Catechesis on the Witnesses of the Faith.

Missionary Witnesses contained in the Guide