Although never a nun, St. Gemma Galgani (1878-1903) was an oddly medieval modern mystic, one whose extreme asceticism and personal piety echoed an earlier Roman Catholicism. That transhistorical ...

June, the Month of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, emphasizes importance to devotion to the Sacred Heart. St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, the “Apostle of the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus,” was the ...

Is she mad, or is she right? ask the authors of the mystical revelations of St. Gemma Galgani, the first woman canonized in the 20th century. Although they leave this question unanswered, the ...

Few in North America are familiar with the writings of Gemma Galgani, the first person who lived into the 20th century to be canonized as a saint. The tempestuous and passionate saint was born in ...