St. Brigid of Ireland is believed to have been born around the year 453 in Faughart, Ireland. At the age of 15, she devoted herself to the service of God, becoming a nun. She later founded severa…

St. Gertrude was born in 1263 to a Saxon family of nobility. She was placed into a Benedictine abbey for education and later became a nun herself. She was obedient to all of the monastic observanc…

St. Scholastica, twin sister of St. Benedict, was born in 480. She founded a religious haven for women about five miles from Benedict’s monastery, at Plombariola in the foothills of Monte Cas…