Saints

Today’s feast of the Conversion of St Paul is an important annual anniversary for me, falling one day shy of

If somebody closes his eyes and for a moment thinks in a Spanish soldier the resultant image would depict under a characteristic

The reason behind martyrdom is faith in Jesus Christ, at least from the martyr’s point of view. He is ready

‘Today, perhaps more than ever before, the world is eager to make a clean sweep of its past… In such

A son of a freed slave from Panama and a Spanish nobleman, Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru,

It would be a terrible mistake to consider the testimony of this woman simply as such, the testimony of a

What is the Angel's share? In the process of making whisky, barley is milled and then mixed with yeast and

‘For the love of God’: it’s an utterance of exasperation at an unwelcome or intimidating task and said with sincerity

As with several Apostles, we know next to nothing about St Bartholomew. His name features in the list of Apostles

This year, the 800th of the Dominican Order, our governing body, the General Chapter, met in Bologna to discuss and

In the last month we have celebrated the Feasts of, variously, St Aloysius, St Cyril of Alexandria, St Irenaeus, St

The title of Laura Smoller’s book “The Saint and the Chopped-up Baby: The Cult of Vincent Ferrer in Medieval and