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    Stories of saints, biblical events, angels, and sacred places.

    A stained glass window portrait of a crowned medieval woman in royal robes, holding a palm branch, with a halo.
    Saint Ludmila
    A Bohemian duchess raised the boy who would become her country's greatest saint, then was strangled with her own veil by hired men sent by her daughter-in-law.
    A modern devotional statue of a haloed abbess holding the Christ child, set inside a stone chapel niche.
    Saint Mildred of Thanet
    An Anglo-Saxon princess ran one of early England's most important convents, and medieval Canterbury pilgrims stopped at her shrine on the way to Becket's.
    A narrow, dark entrance to a concealed priest hole behind wood paneling in an old English manor house.
    Saint Nicholas Owen
    A Jesuit lay brother built hidden priest holes across Elizabethan England for eighteen years, then died under torture in the Tower without giving one up.
    A medieval manuscript miniature showing a tonsured abbot in monastic robes seated and holding a book, with a decorative border.
    Saint Odo of Cluny
    A former court musician became abbot of a small Burgundian monastery and turned it into the reform movement that reshaped Western monasticism for centuries.
    A stained glass window portrait of a bishop saint in medieval vestments, holding a crosier and a small model church.
    Saint Richard of Chichester
    An English bishop's private deathbed prayer became a Broadway show tune centuries later, after Godspell set his words on seeing Christ "more clearly" to music.
    A painted wooden statue of a medieval abbot in monastic robes, holding a crosier, mounted against a stone wall.
    Saint Robert of Molesme
    A Benedictine abbot walked away from the wealthy monastery he'd led for years to found a stricter one, then was ordered back by the pope within months.
    A 16th or 17th-century engraved portrait of a young Jesuit priest with a short beard, wearing a plain clerical collar.
    Saint Robert Southwell
    A Jesuit poet hid in priest holes for six years, wrote verse that later shaped Shakespeare, then walked to the gallows at Tyburn in 1595 reciting Psalm 31 aloud.
    An old engraved illustration of a bearded bishop saint in monastic robes, holding a staff, in a simple landscape setting.
    Saint Samson of Dol
    A Welsh-trained monk crossed the sea to Brittany and became one of its founding bishops, in a documented life unusually well-recorded for the 6th century.
    An icon-style painted portrait of a tonsured medieval monk in white Cistercian habit, holding a book, with a halo.
    Saint Stephen Harding
    An English monk co-founded a struggling reform monastery so austere it nearly died out — then a young nobleman named Bernard arrived with thirty recruits.
    A Renaissance oil painting of a young crowned woman in rich robes, holding an arrow, set against a dark background.
    Saint Ursula
    A British princess supposedly sailed with eleven thousand virgin companions, massacred outside Cologne on the way home — a legend traced to a copying error.
    A stained glass window portrait of a young medieval woman saint in a blue robe, holding a martyr's palm, with a halo.
    Saint Winifred
    A Welsh noblewoman was beheaded by a rejected suitor and, according to enduring tradition, restored to life — the spring where her head fell still flows today.
    A stained glass window showing a bishop saint in medieval vestments, holding a crosier, set in a church interior.
    Saint Wulfstan of Worcester
    Nearly alone among English-born bishops who kept their post after the Norman Conquest, he also led a decades-long campaign to end Bristol's slave trade.
    A winged angel comforts the kneeling prophet Daniel in a painting depicting Daniel's vision
    Angels in the Book of Daniel
    Daniel is where two of the Bible's named angels first appear, an angel walks into a furnace, and Michael is first called the "prince" who guards God's people.
    A Baroque painting of Christ seated in a rocky wilderness landscape, attended by angels bringing him food and comfort after his forty days of fasting
    Angels Ministering to Jesus in the Wilderness
    After forty days of fasting and temptation in the desert, the Gospels record a strikingly plain detail — angels came and cared for Jesus once the devil left.
    A 17th-century painting of an angel appearing to Hagar and her son Ishmael in a rocky desert landscape, pointing toward the sky
    Hagar and the Angel in the Desert
    An enslaved, pregnant woman fleeing into the wilderness alone becomes the first person in the Bible to give God a name — after an angel finds her by a spring.
    The prophet Elijah standing before an altar consumed by fire from heaven as the priests of Baal look on, painted by Domenico Fetti
    Elijah and the Priests of Baal
    One prophet against 450, on a mountaintop, daring both sides to prove whose god was real. Inside Elijah's showdown with the priests of Baal at Carmel.
    Elisha stretched over the dead body of the Shunammite woman's son, restoring him to life, painted by Benjamin West
    Elisha's Miracles — The Prophet Who Asked for a Double Portion
    A widow's jug of oil that never ran dry, a dead boy breathing again, and an army struck blind — inside the miracles of the prophet who inherited Elijah's mantle.
    Jesus seated on a rock outcropping, arm raised, preaching to a crowd of disciples and listeners gathered on a hillside.
    Gospel Stories and Parables of Jesus
    How the Gospels weave miracle stories, parables, and the turning points of Jesus's ministry into one narrative — a guided tour through the key passages.
    Sailors casting Jonah into the sea toward a great fish waiting below, painted by Pieter Lastman
    Jonah and the Whale
    A prophet books passage on a ship heading the exact opposite direction God sent him, and ends up praying from inside a great fish. The story of Jonah.
    Moses kneeling before the burning bush on Mount Horeb, removing his sandals, painted by Domenico Fetti
    Moses and the Burning Bush
    A fugitive shepherd stumbles on a fire that refuses to consume anything, and hears his own name called from inside the flame. How Moses met God at Horeb.