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| was one of the first deacons in the Church |
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| those who heard him were blinded by anger. They rush at him, dragged him outside, and then stoned him to death. |
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| One story tells how he freed three unjustly imprisoned officers. |
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| another story tell how he brought back to life three innocent boys who were murdered. |
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| Her name means light, she kept the light of her loyal faith burning through the experience of death. |
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| One tory about her is that she is said to have made a vow to remain unmarried. When the man to whom she was engaged found out, he turned her in as a Christian. |
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| His indian name means the eagle who speaks. |
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| On December 9, 1531, as he was walking the fourteen miles to Mass a beautiful lady dressed as an Aztec maiden and surrounded by light appeared. She told him she was the Virgin Mary. |
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| Stending before the bishop, he opened his white tilma, letting the fragrant roses fall in a shower to the floor. On his tilma a life-sized image began to appear. |
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| People called him the pilgrim because he always walked alone and seemed to be praying. |
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| He joined the Congregation of Holy Cross. At the end of a year he was told to leave because of his bad health. |
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| In his room near the door, he kept a statue of St.Joseph on the windowsill. |
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| He would say, "it is St.Joseph who cures. I am just his little dog." |
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| The Holy Cross Communtiy had tried in vain for many years to buy a piece of land nearby. Then he buried a medal of St. Joseph on the land, and suddenly the owners agreed to sell the land. |
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| he is know as "the miracle man of Montreal" |
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| Was the first person born in the US to be declared a saint. |
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| because there had been an epidemic in New York before her and her family left, when they landed in Italy the police quarantined them in an old fort. |
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| To support herself and her children, she opened a Catholic boarding school for girls in Maryland. |
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