Choir (architecture)

Saint Marcian, a Syrian hermit of the 4th century: asceticism, prayer, struggle against Arianism and a call for simplicity and charity.

Emeline d'Yèvres, a 12th-century Cistercian hermit in Champagne, embodies the contemplative life and humble prophecy: radical penance, silent listening, and gifts of discernment placed at the service of the humble. Documented life and local memory meet in the account of her life at the barn of Perthes Sèches (Yèvres-le-Petit), her recognized prophecies—notably by Baron Symon de Beaufort—and her iconographic disappearance. Her example today questions our ability to discern divine signs in everyday life and to live an authentic asceticism, without pomp or the quest for recognition.

Pastor of Antioch at the turn of the 2nd century, martyr in Rome under Trajan, architect of ecclesial unity and witness to an ardent Eucharistic faith, whose...

Saint Géraud d'Aurillac Count, founder, man of the Gospel (+909) Saint Géraud d'Aurillac (854-909), sometimes called Gérault or Gérard, is one of the finest figures of secular holiness...