Named for St. Alphonsus Liguori, Alfonso Maria Fusco was an Italian priest who founded a religious congregation for women and had special concern for orphans. He died in 1910.
Angelo Carletti, an Observant Franciscan, was twice papal nuncio. He is best known today as a moral theologian, the author of a book on cases of conscience. He died in 1495.
Bl. Artemide Zatti was born in Italy and became a Salesian lay brother in Argentina. He was a pharmacist and nurse, and served as hospital administrator. He died in 1951.
This St. Adalbert was a Benedictine monk sent as a missionary to Russia. A coup resulted in a deadly pagan attack on the would-be missionaries, and Adalbert was instead named abbot and bishop. In the latter capacity, Adalbert worked to evangelize the Slavs. He died in 981.
This St. Adelaide, or Adelheid, is a Burgundian who was married to Lothair of Provence (King of Italy). When Lothair died--some say he was murdered--Adelaide was imprisoned by his successor Berengar of Ivrea. Adelaide escaped, and married Otto of Germany. She died in 999.
St. Alexander Briant was a young priest from Somerset who had studied at Oxford. After having been tortured, he was martyred along with Edmund Campion and Ralph Sherwin on 1 December, 1581.
Sites dedicated to St. Ambrose Barlow, an English Benedictine active in south Lancashire, in the Manchester area. He died a martyr in 1641, and was canonized in 1970.
Blessed André Bessette, better known as Brother André, was born Alfred Bessette in 1845. He took the religious name André when he joined the Congregation of the Holy Cross. Brother André served for 40 years as a porter at a secondary school in Montreal. He was greatly devoted to St. Joseph, and had the gift of healing. Brother André died in 1937 and was beatified in 1982.