Saints and Blesseds

Saint Carlo Acutis is one of the most beloved and remarkable spiritual figures of our time, especially because he embodies a profoundly contemporary form of holiness: close to young people, rooted in everyday life and capable of speaking to a generation that has grown up in the digital age. Carlo Acutis: an ordinary boy with a heart filled ...

Who Was Saint Januarius? Origins, Name and the First Accounts of His Life.Saint Januarius, known in ancient texts as Ianuarius, emerged in the Christian world of the 3rd century as a bishop, martyr and, in the centuries that followed, the beloved Patron Saint of Naples. His name, of Latin origin, means "dedicated to Janus" or "born in the month of ...

Prayer is one of the oldest and most profound expressions of the Christian tradition. For centuries, it has accompanied the daily lives of millions of people, offering comfort, hope and a moment of personal dialogue with God, the Virgin Mary and the Saints. Many of the prayers we know today have been passed down through generations. Some originated ...

What Are Votive Shrines (or Votive Altars)?Votive shrines, also known in Naples as Votive Altars, are small sacred structures placed along streets, at the corners of narrow alleys, in courtyards and on the facades of buildings. They house sacred images, especially those of the Virgin Mary and the Saints, and represent a popular form of ...

Sacred Statues: deep meaning – Religious Items and Devotion. From its very beginnings, the Church recognized in matter the possibility of becoming a spiritual language. For this reason, it introduced the use of Sacred Statues to create a point of contact between human fragility and the divine. Of course, statues are not “the divine” ...

Saints and Blesseds: differencesSaints and Blesseds are models of faith who accompany the journey of Christians, offering concrete examples of evangelical life lived in everyday experience. In the life of the Church, they represent two different but deeply connected stages in the witness of faith. A saint is a person who, after death, has been ...