A Russian Evangelist: St. Sergius of Radonezh
Saint Sergius was known as a spiritual leader, a monastic reformer of medieval Russia and one of the most highly venerated saints of Russia. Born May 13, 1314,…
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Saint Maximilian Kolbe; Apostle of Consecration to Mary
Everyone seems to know about Fr. Maximillian Kolbe killed at Auschwitz. But do you know his life and how devoted he was to evangelization? Father Kolbe was…
St. Felix of Cantalice, the Joyful Evangelizer
When I was a child, there were four Catholic schools in our little city of 50,000. Each covered K-12. There was the German parish, the Irish parish,…
St. John the Evangelist
St. John the Evangelist can certainly be classified as one of the first Christian evangelists. St. John is given many titles, the Beloved, the Apostle, the son of…
St. Francis De Sales, Gentle Evangelizer
We all know St. Francis de Sales. He is the one those schools and churches are named after. He is a saint. He wrote books. Didn’t he?…
John Henry Cardinal Newman, Writer
A complex, highly gifted man who wrote volumes of works, John Henry Newman is the evangelist of today’s post. John Henry, born in 1801, at the height…
Monseigneur Robert Hugh Benson, Novelist
A gifted novelist, essayist, and evangelizer, Robert Hugh Benson was born the youngest son of Edward White Benson and his wife Mary. Edward was an English Anglican priest.…
Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal of Social Justice
Henry Cardinal Manning was one of those remarkable men and women of 19th century England who reversed the decline of Roman Catholicism and helped make the religion acceptable…
JACINTA MARTO, THE YOUNGEST EVANGELIZER
Everyone sees Jacinta Marto as a seer or as a potential saint. Here we will look at her as an evangelizer, the youngest evangelizer we know of. Who…
Reverend William Henry Anderdon, Modern Evangelist
A man is not a saint because many years after his death he was proclaimed so. And a man is not an evangelist by having traveled much as…