St. Gaspar del Bufalo was a priest, a founder, and a missionary preacher. Gaspar was born in 1786 in Rome. His parents named him Gaspar Melchior Balthazar in memory of the traditionally attributed names of the three Magi who sought and venerated Christ as an infant. His father, Antonio del...

St. John of God was a shepherd and a soldier, who had a dramatic conversion and became the founder of a charitable religious order. John was born at Montemayor-el-Novo, Portugal in 1495, the only child of middle-class parents. At age eight, John inexplicably vanished, and it is not known whether...

. By Sarah Bedia St. Stanislaus Papczynski was a priest, military chaplain, and a founder of a religious order.  John (Jan) was born in 1631 in the small village of Podegrodzie in southern Poland.  His father Tomasz was the bailiff for the village and a blacksmith, and John had seven...