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The main information about the life of Saturninus comes from the Passio Saturnini, an anonymous text written around the mid-5th century—therefore composed roughly two hundred years after his martyrdom. According to this account, Saturninus arrived from Africa and reached Toulouse around the year 250, during the consulate of Decius and Gratus, where he was chosen as leader of the local Christian community.
Saint James of the Marches, born Domenico Gangale on September 1, 1393, in Monteprandone in the Ascoli region of Italy, spent his youth devoted to study. He first attended school in Ascoli Piceno, then the University of Perugia, where he earned degrees in both civil and canon law.
Virgil, born in Ireland in the 8th century, belonged to the tradition of itinerant monks who left their homeland to undertake long religious pilgrimages. Setting out around 743 with the intention of reaching Palestine, he interrupted his journey.
Paolo Girolamo Casanova, better known as Saint Leonard of Porto Maurizio, was born in Porto Maurizio—today’s Imperia—on 20 December 1676. At a very young age he moved to Rome to complete his studies at the Roman College and, fascinated by the austere life of two friars at the Retreat of San Bonaventura on the Palatine Hill, decided to enter the Order of Friars Minor at the age of twenty-one, taking the Franciscan habit in the convent of Santa Maria in Ponticelli.
According to tradition, Catherine was a young woman of noble birth from Alexandria in Egypt, known for her beauty and high level of learning.
Beginning in the early decades of the sixteenth century, the proclamation of the Gospel reached the regions of present-day Vietnam, and in 1659 the Holy See gave stable form to missionary activity by entrusting two vast areas to the Apostolic Vicariates of the North (Đàng Ngoài) and the South (Đàng Trong). Despite difficulties and hostility, that work eventually produced a remarkable growth of the Christian community.
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