BOGOTÁ, Colombia – When a Polish priest named Jerzy Popiełuszko was beatified in 2010, he became the leading symbol of an entire people’s suffering, in his case Poles living under Soviet ...

Drawn by faith, Chileans made their way to the sacred sanctuary in La Tirana, on the outskirts of Santiago. Built on ground ...

South Florida’s flourishing Colombian population will get a chance to honor their native country’s patron saint this month in a series of Archdiocese of Miami Masses. The Virgin of ...

Eliot Smith, aka the Patron Saint of Knives, looks over a customer’s order at the knife drop outside his Vancouver home workshop. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Photo Gallery ...

“I find it interesting that this tradition of recognizing St. Patrick as the patron saint of engineers started just a few hours from here at the University of Missouri (in Columbia, Missouri) in ...

Porretta Terme, in central Italy, is passionate about basketball, and is pressing the Vatican to officially recognize its local saint as Italy’s patron of the sport.

Pope Francis has announced that Carlo Acutis, a 15-year-old web designer who died in 2006, will be canonized as the Catholic Church's first millennial saint.

Farmers and their horses walked in a festive parade through the small Bavarian town of Warngau on Sunday to honor their patron saint, St. Leonhard.

The form that will be filled out by prospective jurors in El Chapo's upcoming federal trial includes a question about Mexico's version of Robin Hood.

Germany's Aachen Cathedral has dug out the relics of little-known Saint Corona, patron saint of resisting epidemics, from its treasure chamber and is polishing up her elaborate shrine to go on ...

A contingent of Filipino-Americans from Staten Island gathered at a 2 p.m. mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Manhattan on Sept. 17, in honor of their patron saint, San Lorenzo Ruiz, joining ...