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Erik Varden

Erik Varden: "Human history, despite its absurdities, has a meaning".

Erik Varden is a Cistercian monk and president of the Scandinavian Bishops' Conference. In this interview, he explains for today's society the concepts of equity, inclusion and diversity, starting from Benedictine spirituality.

Paloma López Campos

San Francisco de Sales, by Francisco Bayeu (Museo del Prado).

St. Francis de Sales, immersed in the love of God

La Iglesia celebra el 24 de enero al santo obispo francés de Ginebra, patrono de periodistas y escritores, san Francisco de Sales. El Papa Francisco reflexionó sobre su magisterio en una Carta apostólica publicada con motivo del cuarto centenario de la muerte del santo, titulada ‘Totum amoris est’ (‘Todo pertenece al amor’).  

Rafael Miner

SantoToribio Mogrovejo, second Archbishop of Lima

José A. Benito: "Santo Toribio Mogrovejo promoted the dignity of the Indians in America".

The second archbishop of Lima in Peru was, between the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Saint Toribio Mogrovejo. A great itinerant evangelizer and patron of Latin American bishops, praised by the Popes, he fought for the dignity of the Indians and their human and social promotion in councils and synods, historian José Antonio Benito explains to Omnes.  

Rafael Miner

Saint Vincent, deacon and martyr

St. Vincent, deacon and martyr

St. Vincent martyr was one of the deacons who gave his life for Christ in the persecution of Diocletian. He descended from a family from Huesca, studied in Zaragoza, and was martyred in the year 304 in Valencia, where he is the patron saint. Vincent means victor in the combat of faith, and he is celebrated on January 22.

Rafael Miner

Saint Agnes on the pyre, by Ercole Ferrata.

Saint Agnes, icon of purity

The young Agnes is one of the most popular saints of the Church, which celebrates her on January 21. She is an icon, a sign of purity and patron saint. of adolescent girls and young women. At the age of 13, she rejected suitors for her love of Christ. The son of the prefect of Rome, scorned, denounced her for her Christian religion. On the pyre, the flames did not even brush her, and she died by the sword.  

Rafael Miner

San-Sebastian-@Wikimedia-Commons-Peter-Paul-Rubens

St. Sebastian and St. Fabian, martyrs of the 3rd century

On January 20, the Church commemorates Saints Sebastian and Fabian, martyrs. Saint Sebastian was born in Milan and became an officer in the Roman army. Both were imprisoned during the persecutions of Christians by Diocletian and Decius. St. Sebastian helped Christians in prison. He survived arrows, but was beaten to death. St. Fabian was Pope for 14 years.  

Rafael Miner

Centenary of Our Lady of Fatima, 2017

Miracles of the Virgin Mary and nature: 'the sun danced', snowfalls, flowers…

Omnes Editorial Staff

Saint Maximilian Kolbe.

Saints of Auschwitz: Kolbe, Stein, Salesians… The goal: education

Omnes Editorial Staff

Diane Foley

Diane Foley: "I could not have endured the murder of our son without my faith in God"«

Teresa Aguado Peña

The Tears of Saint Lawrence

The Tears of Saint Lawrence: When the Stars Remember a Martyr

Teresa Aguado Peña

Co-founder of Acutis AI

Acutis AI: This Is How Leo XIV Wants Us to Experience the AI Revolution

Omnes Editorial Staff