Source Angelo was born in Jerusalem to Jewish parents who later converted to Christianity. At the age of eighteen, he and his twin brother became Carmelites. Angelo lived for five years as a hermit and then he went to Sicily to convert Jews. He was finally stabbed to death in 1220.

Source Louis Mary Grignion was born on January 31, 1673 in Montfort. He was ordained in 1700 and later made a chaplain at a hospital near Poitiers but later resigned. He later went to Rome and the pope made him a missionary. He also wrote a book called True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin . He died at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sèvre in 1716.

Source George the Younger was a native of Mitylene and he was a rich man, but he gave his money to the poor and entered a monastery. Not long after, he was appointed bishop! When Leo the Armenian became emperor, George stood up against the persecutions, but he was exiled to Chersonese and died there in 816.

Source Very little is known about Bl. Joan of Toulouse's early life, but we do know that she was accepted into the Carmelite order in 1225. She was the founder of the first tertiary Carmelite order and schooled boys for preparing to enter the Carmelites.

Source Irenaeus was the bishop of Sirmium, a short distance from Belgrade. In 304, he was taken before the governor of Pannonia and tortured for refusing to sacrifice to false gods. He was going to be drowned in the river, but he insisted that he would rather not be drowned. He was beheaded instead.

Source Gertrude was born in Landen in 626 and was the daughter of Bls. Pepin and Itta. She refused to marry, becoming a nun instead. After her father died, her mother founded a double monastery at Nivelles. She became abbess in 652, the year that her mother died. She died on March 17, 659.

  Source Aurea lived with her parents in the eleventh century in Villavelayo, during the Moorish occupation of Spain. She liked reading the lives of the saints and Scripture. She became a Benedictine nun at the convent of San Millán de la Cogolla, but she had only spent a little while at the convent when she fell ill and died around 1069, aged 27.

Source Anselm was a duke in earlier life, and he served his brother-in-law who was a king. He left for Rome to be a monk in around 753. He was later appointed abbot and given permission to inter Pope Sylvester's remains into his abbey. He died in 803, having been a Benedictine for fifty years.

  Source Walburga was born in around 710 and was the daughter of a West Saxon chieftain and her brothers were named Willibald and Winebald. (Later on, Willibald became a bishop and Winebald founded two monasteries. They both became saints.) Walburga was schooled at the monastery where she later became a nun. In 748, she was sent to Germany to help St. Boniface with his missionary work. When her brother Winebald died, she was appointed abbess of the two monasteries that he founded. She died in 779.

Source Elizabeth was born in 1428 to wealthy parents and received a thorough religious education. Her father taught her Latin so that she could read the Divine Office and her mother taught her meditation. After her mother's death, Elizabeth and her sisters became and formed a community of third order Servites. She died in 1468 and many people attended her funeral.

Source St. Lazarus became Bishop of Milan in around 439. He is believed to have developed the Rogationtide litanies, and the First Council of Orleans approved the celebration of Rogationtide. At that time, the Ostrogoths were invading Italy, but Lazarus held up. He died on March 14, 450.

Source Adelaide was the daughter of the Count of Guelder. She eventually took charge of the two nunneries that her father founded. First, she was the abbess of the convent at Bellich, near Bonn, and another one. She was a Benedictine abbess, and made her nuns study Latin so that they could follow the Divine Office. She died in 1015.

Source Little is known about Sulpicius' early life. He was appointed Bishop of Bourges in 584 and is credited with writing a very popular biography of St. Martin of Tours (Nov. 11). In 585, he went to the Council of Mâcon. He died in 591.

Source Laura was born in Chile in 1891. Her father was a soldier and died when she was young. A widow, her mother moved to Argentina and settled down in a boardinghouse owned by Manuel Mora. When Laura was eight, she went to boarding school with the Salesian Sisters and decided that she would become one of them. But in 1901, she got sick. She got sicker and sicker until in 1904, Manuel got drunk and ordered Laura to return home. Distraught, she ran away, but she was caught and beaten! She died of her wounds a week later, on January 22, 1904. She is the patron of abuse victims. Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains a single grain, but if it dies, it bears much fruit. (John 12:24)

Source  St. Arnold Janssen was born in Goch, Germany on November 5, 1837 and was ordained in 1861. For a while he taught science, but later founded an order called the Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters, whose mission was to bring the Gospel to the whole world, in 1889. He also founded the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters in 1896.