Father Eusebius of the Child Jesus (Ovidio Fernández Arenillas) and the entire Community of Discalced Carmelites of Toledo, suffered martyrdom between the months of July and September 1936, during the religious persecution experienced in Spain in...
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Mercedes was born in Tunja (Boyacá), Colombia, on November 18, 1930. At the age of 22 she entered the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Villa de Leyva, receiving the name of Mary Celine of...
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The Servant of God Pura Rose of Carmel Olmos Professed Religious of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa of Jesus (Arg.) Secundina Guadalupe Olmos was born on 26 February 1896 in the locality of La Canada...
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Joseph Kalinowski was born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1835, He was a military engineer and captain of General Staff. He worked on building railways and fortresses. He participated, albeit reluctantly, in the Polish-Lithuanian uprising against the...
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Peter Berthelot was born in Honfleur (Calvados, France) on December 12, 1600 and at a very young age he gave himself to navigation, traveling to Spain, England, America. In 1619 he went to India, where, as...
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Rudolf of the Transverberation was born on November 14, 1919 in Bachowice, (Poland) not far from Wadowice, in the archdiocese of Krakow, into a practicing and farming family. He completed his middle-classical studies in the grammar...
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Rosa Ojeda y Creus was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú on August 30, 1871 into a poor family. In 1877, following the death of her parents, she and her two siblings were taken in by...
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Rufino was born in Villaveta Zazpe Zabalza (Navarre), Spain, on November 16, 1891. Fleeing the wars of his time, he emigrated to Chile in 1913. In the same year he joined the Discalced Carmelites of Santiago,...
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Salvador Riviera Garcia was born in Salvatierra, Guanajuato (Mexico) on June 27, 1934. Like everyone else, he was a lively and playful child, but also very intelligent and willing to help. As a boy, he began...
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Saturnina Jassá y Fontcuberta was born in Spain on March 3, 1851 in Calaceite, an Aragonese municipality then belonging to the diocese of Tortosa in the province of Teruel. After a normal childhood and youth, Saturnina,...
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Sergio Sorgon was born in San Donà di Piave on 12 November 1938, the fourth of ten children. In 1949, he entered the minor seminary in Verona. In 1955, he took the religious habit and professed...
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Edith Stein was born in Breslau, the capital of Prussian Silesia, on October 12, 1891, to a Jewish family of German stock....
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