Saints

Scholar, craftsman and statesman, St Dunstan helped lead the English Benedictine revival and became one of the defining churchmen of Anglo-Saxon England

Andrew Cusack

From confronting Attila the Hun to shaping the theology of Chalcedon, Leo the Great helped guide the Church through the end of the ancient world while offering lessons for turbulent times

Andrew Cusack

From suppression under Napoleon to destruction by earthquake, the Benedictines of Norcia have rebuilt their monastic life through prayer, work and perseverance

Fr Dwight Longenecker

The Roman martyr Saint Pancras gave his name to one of London’s great railway stations, though few travellers know the story of the teenage saint behind it

Andrew Cusack

St John Henry Newman warned that the Church should not measure its vitality by conversions alone, but by the formation of a Catholic mind

Jan C. Bentz

Clergy and laity alike shaped the legacy of the Forty Martyrs, whose lives illuminate both sacrifice and the sustaining culture of the Faith

Andrew Cusack

How a disciple of St Mungo gave his name to one of Britain’s smallest cathedral cities

Andrew Cusack

The feast of St Joseph the Worker was created in the 20th century to offer a Christian vision of labour against the secular ideologies that sought to claim May Day for themselves

James Bradbury

Long before modern arguments about identity, St George had already been claimed by England as a saint whose witness stood above blood, region and politics

Andrew Cusack

A pilgrimage to Chartres and a visit to the Colosseum illuminate the moral gulf between Christian and pagan civilisation, and the enduring power of Marian devotion

Clement Harrold