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The most famous grandparents of all, Sts. Joachim and Anne, were the grandparents of Jesus. Their feast day is June 26, but not observed this year as it's a Sunday. It's also World Day of Grandparents and the Elderly.

The 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup, the world’s most-watched sporting event, has come to a close, but not without countless moments of surprise, of the kind of unexpected encounter between cultures and countless examples of missionary discipleship through word and action as billions w

No hardships restrained St. Lawrence of Brindisi (feast day: July 21) from tirelessly pursuing the spread of the Gospel of Christ and “calling the greatest number of people to eternal salvation," according to Pope St. John XXIII, who declared St. Lawrence a Doctor of the Catholic Church.

She is perhaps the most popular representation of the Blessed Mother: Our Lady of Mount Carmel, whose feast we celebrate on July 16.  

A group of papal envoys brought a cardinal’s hat to St. Bonaventure, whose feast we celebrate on July 15, while he was busy washing dishes outside a convent. The saint told the envoys to hang the cap upon a tree until he was finished.

She is called the “Lily of the Mohawks” and the “Genevieve of New France”: St. Kateri Tekakwitha (feast day: July 14), the first Native American to be canonized.