About Stained Glass

Robert Bellarmine lived in the sixteenth century and was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation. He was born in Italy, the third of ten children. Robert joined the Jesuits, and became a cardinal of the Catholic Church. He has been named a Doctor of the Church and was canonized in 1930. St. […]

St. Sofia was born in Italy in the second century AD. She had three daughters named Faith, Hope and Love. All three daughters were cruelly martyred during the reign of Hadrian, each one being beaten, tortured and beheaded. Sofia buried her daughters’ bodies and then remained at their graves until she died three days later. […]

St. Nicholas of Tolentino was named after St. Nicholas of Myra. His middle-aged parents were so thankful that their prayers to St. Nicholas for a child had been answered, that they named their son Nicholas. He was born in 1245 in Italy. At the age of sixteen Nicholas became an Augustinian Friar, and was ordained […]

Peter Claver was born in Spain in 1580. He studied to become a Jesuit priest and then travelled to Colombia as a missionary. He worked in the port city of Cartagena which was the biggest slave market of the New World, where a thousand slaves landed every month. St Peter Claver would board the ships […]

St. Adrian is also known as Hadrian or Adrian of Nicodemia. He lived during the Fourth Century AD and was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Maximian. One day when he was watching a group of Christians being tortured he was so impressed by their courage that he decided to become a Christian and […]

Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is most commonly known as Mother Teresa. A truly remarkable woman, Teresa was born in Albania in 1910, and died at the age of 87 in India. She was a Roman catholic Religious Sister who founded the “Missionaries of Charity” who now work in over 130 countries of the world. They […]

St. Rosalia was born into a noble Italian family descended from Charlemagne. Her father was Sinibald, Lord of Roses. Rosalia was devoutly religious and according to tradition she was led by two angels to a cave on the mountainside where she retired to live the rest of her life as a hermit. On the walls […]

St. Raymond was given the nickname “Nonnatus” which means “not born” in Latin, referring to his birth by caesarean section after his mother had died while giving birth to him. He is the patron saint of childbirth, midwives and pregnant women. St. Raymond was born in the thirteenth century in Spain, and his childhood was […]

St. Aidan was an Irish monk of the seventh century who worked as a missionary in Northumbria and established a monastery on the island of Lindisfarne. He is also known as St. Aidan of Lindisfarne or the Apostle of Northumbria. St. Aidan traveled on foot throughout Northumbria sharing the gospel as he went. He was […]

The meaning of the Greek name Phoebe is “The Shining One”. St. Phoebe certainly lived up to her name as she played an important role in the church at Cenchreae in the port of Corinth during the first century AD. In the Biblical book of Romans she is described by St. Paul as a deaconess […]