The Monstrous Regiment of Women

Joanna I, queen of Naples (recognized as heir presumptive, 4 November 1330) Earlier this year I posted about Joanna II of Naples  (137...

Teresa of Ávila (feast day, 15 October) Born on 28 March 1515, Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada would become one of the most well-kno...

Marie le Jars de Gournay (born 6 October 1565) Marie le Jars was the first of six children born to Guillaume le Jars, a minor aristo...

Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin (feast day, 3 October) On 2 July 1873, Marie-Françoise-Thérèse Martin was born in Alençon, France, the ...

Lucrezia Marinella Vacca (9 August 1600) Despite her literary fame among her contemporaries, we know very little about Lucrezia Marine...

Birgitta of Sweden (died 23 July 1373) The life of Birgitta Birgersdotter changed radically in 1344. Before that date, she lived a piou...

Catherine of Genoa (canonized 16 June 1737) St. Catherine of Genoa, eighteenth-century painting by Giovanni Agostino Ratti Cateri...

Sigrid Undset (born 20 May 1822) Today is the birth day of Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset, who won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...

Hildegard of Bingen (canonized 10 May 2012) More than 800 years after her death, on 10 May 2012, the incomparable Hildegard of Bingen w...

Marie of Oignies (1 May 1240) First, a word about why Marie of Oignies is the topic of today's post. Most of what we know about thi...

Catherine of Siena (died 29 April 1380) Catherine of Siena, Chapel of Catherine of Siena, Basilica San Domenico One of the most a...