Saint Columbanus of Luxeuil
An Irish monk of the 6th century, Columbanus left his homeland to evangelize Gaul, where he founded the famous abbeys of Annegray and Luxeui…
Iconographic attribute
sun on the chest
4 saints
Blessed Sanctes of Urbino
A member of the Brancacini family, Sanctes entered the Order of Friars Minor after accidentally killing an assailant. He lived for twenty ye…
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Born in 1226 into a noble Italian family, Thomas Aquinas joined the Order of Saint Dominic despite the violent opposition of his relatives. …
Saint Thomas Aquinas
An illustrious 13th-century Dominican theologian, Saint Thomas Aquinas is the author of the Summa Theologica. Canonized in 1323, his relics …