David Szentgyorgyi

I grew up in a Catholic family in Hungary, and the saints, feast days, and sacred images that came with that upbringing never really left me. The Saints started from a simple observation: most religious wall art available online is either mass-produced and generic, or expensive fine-art-print territory with a long wait and a high price tag. I wanted something in between — modern, minimalist prints of the saints, angels, and biblical scenes, available instantly as a digital download or as a physical print, without losing the reverence the subject deserves. That became Saints Home on Etsy, and this site.

Why this blog exists

Every print in the shop has a story behind it — who the person was, why the Church remembers them, what's actually documented versus what's pious legend built up over centuries. I wanted a place to tell those stories properly instead of leaving them as a product description, so the blog on this site exists independently of the shop: biographies, feast days, canonization history, and the honest gaps in the record where they exist.

How the articles are researched

Every article on this site follows the same standard:

• Primary and reference sources. Historical claims are checked against standard reference works — the Catholic Encyclopedia (New Advent), Encyclopaedia Britannica, and other established sources cited at the bottom of each article.
• Verified direct quotations. Any direct quote — from a saint's own writing, a papal document, or Scripture — is checked against an authoritative source text before publication, in the original language of that article. Bible quotations are checked against the standard translation for each language: NIV for English, Reina-Valera 1960 for Spanish, the Einheitsübersetzung for German, AELF or Bible de Jérusalem-family texts for French, and the CEI translation for Italian.
• Honesty about uncertainty. Where the historical record is thin, contested, or largely built on later legend — which is true for a real number of early saints — the article says so directly, rather than presenting pious tradition as settled fact.
• Published in five languages. Articles are written in English first, then translated into Spanish, German, French, and Italian, with the same sourcing standard applied to each language's quotations independently rather than machine-translating a single verified quote and assuming it stays accurate.

If you spot an error or have a source correction, please reach out — you can email me directly at david@thesaints.store.

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