June, the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, emphasizes importance to devotion to the Sacred Heart. St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the “Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” was the ...

Although never a nun, St. Gemma Galgani (1878-1903) was an oddly medieval modern mystic, one whose extreme asceticism and personal piety echoed an earlier Roman Catholicism. That transhistorical ...

Is she mad, or is she right? ask the authors of the mystical revelations of St. Gemma Galgani, the first woman canonized in the 20th century. Although they leave this question unanswered, the ...

Gemma Galgani returns as a guest in Silvia Toffanin's living room on Verissimo. Directly from Uomini e Donne, the conversation revolves around the dreams and heartbeats of a person whom the dating ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

Tito Edwards Tito Edwards manages Catholic websites for the new evangelization that Pope John Paul II and then Pope Benedict XVI asked for in the third millennium. After a lifetime of living a nominal ...

A relic of St. Gemma Galgani has reportedly moved within its sealed reliquary at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Newman Center, drawing Catholics from across the state eager to witness it.

Few in North America are familiar with the writings of Gemma Galgani, the first person who lived into the 20th century to be canonized as a saint. The tempestuous and passionate saint was born in ...