Almost every day of the year carries a saint's name. But one day is kept for the others: the holy people no one counted, whom only God saw.

In the year 1917, in a poor village in Portugal, three shepherd children saw a Lady dressed in white, brighter than the sun. She carried a request for the whole world. This is how the apparitions of Fatima began.

On October 13, 1917, seventy thousand people gathered at the Cova da Iria, in the pouring rain, to see whether the three children's promise was true. What happened in the sky that day became known as the Miracle of the Sun.

After the Miracle of the Sun, the whole world wanted to know what Our Lady had told the three children. Little by little, the secret of Fatima was revealed: a serious warning, a story that touched even a Pope, and a promise of hope.

Humble Nhá Chica of Baependi never learned to read, yet she gave wise counsel to everyone at her door and built a chapel for Our Lady.

In Guaratinguetá a boy named Antônio was born. He became a friar, built a monastery, and helped the sick with tiny pills made of prayer.

On the day after Christmas a king walks out into deep snow with his page to carry supper to a poor man, and his footprints warm the way.

Three fishermen cast their nets into the Paraíba River and caught nothing, until out of the water came a small statue of Our Lady.

On the hill of Tepeyac a Lady spoke to Juan Diego in his own language. He walked home with December roses folded inside his cloak.

In the south of France there is a cave with a spring that never stops running. Every February 11, the whole world remembers it.

In a poor village in Italy, a boy was born who talked with his guardian angel the way you talk with a friend. This is the first part of the life of Padre Pio, the friar who received the wounds of Christ.

After receiving the wounds of Christ, Padre Pio spent his life in the confessional, welcoming people from all over the world. In this second part, discover his miracles, his trials, and his path to sainthood.

Fernando was born in a palace in Lisbon, but left everything behind to serve God. He became Friar Anthony, the preacher so wonderful that even the fish came to listen. This is the first part of the story of Saint Anthony.

In Padua, Friar Anthony preached, worked miracles, and was visited by the Child Jesus Himself. In this second part, we follow the last years of one of the world's best-loved saints.

While still very young, Benedict left Rome to seek God in the silence of the mountains. He lived three years in a cave and would become the father of Western monks. This is the first part of the story of Saint Benedict of Nursia.

On a mountaintop, Benedict built the monastery of Monte Cassino and wrote the Rule that taught the West to pray and work. In this second part, we follow the miracles, the meeting with Saint Scholastica, and the holy death of Saint Benedict.

Bernadette was a poor, sickly girl from Lourdes, in France. One day, near a grotto, she saw a most beautiful Lady dressed in white. So began a story of eighteen meetings, a spring that welled up from the earth, and a mysterious name.

After the apparitions, Bernadette wanted only a hidden life with God. She became a nun, suffered with patience, and died young. This is the second part of her story, from the convent of Nevers to the glory of the altars.

A cave up a mountain, the animals that came to visit him, a boy who breathed again, and two candles still burning after many centuries.

Carlo was a boy like so many others: he loved video games, soccer, and computers. But he carried in his heart a great love for Jesus in the Eucharist. This is the story of how an ordinary boy lived an extraordinary faith.

A teenager created a website that inspires millions of people and faced a serious illness with quiet faith. This is the conclusion of the story of Carlo Acutis, the first saint of the internet generation.

In Siena, in Italy, a six-year-old girl saw Jesus in the sky and was never the same again. This is the first part of the life of Saint Catherine, the young woman who served the sick and became a Doctor of the Church.

A young laywoman wrote letters to the Pope and convinced him to return to Rome. In this second part, Catherine dictates her masterpiece, works for peace in the Church, and gives her life at thirty-three.

Maria Rita was a girl from Salvador, Brazil, who could not bear to see anyone suffer. She became Sister Dulce, the nun who sheltered seventy sick people in a chicken coop and came to be known as the Good Angel of Bahia.

From the old chicken coop grew a hospital that cares for thousands of people. Sister Dulce met the Pope, received awards from around the world, and stayed simple to the end. This is the story of the nun from Bahia who became Saint Dulce of the Poor.

Francis grew up rich in Assisi and dreamed of becoming a knight. But an encounter on the road changed his life forever, and the young man of the parties became the little poor man the whole world came to love.

Francis rebuilds churches with his own hands and, without planning it, watches a family of brothers grow around him. Clare runs away from home to follow him, the Pope approves the Order, and Francis crosses a war to speak with the Sultan.

In the last years of his life, sick and nearly blind, Francis received on Mount La Verna the marks of Jesus and composed the most beautiful song of praise to creation. The peaceful farewell of the little poor man of Assisi.

A fierce wolf prowled around the city of Gubbio, and no one dared step outside the walls. Until the day Saint Francis decided to go and meet it alone. An old story about peace, forgiveness and the power of love.

The knight, the white horse and the dragon come from an old legend. Underneath it there is a real man, with a much quieter kind of courage.

A rich young Roman traded his palace for a monastery and became the pope who called himself the servant of the servants of God.

In a small French village, a peasant girl heard voices from heaven and received a mission that seemed impossible. This is the first part of the story of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans.

After the victories came Joan of Arc's hardest days: capture, an unjust trial, and martyrdom. But her story did not end at the stake — it ended in the glory of the altars.

A farm boy dreamed of a yard full of children, and grew up to open a house in Turin where no boy was ever turned away.

In wartime Poland, a boy who loved the theater discovered, in the middle of great sorrow, a call from God. This is the story of young Karol Wojtyla, who would one day become Pope John Paul II.

The priest who took young people camping in the mountains became the youngest bishop in Poland, then a cardinal, and at last, on an October afternoon in 1978, the first non-Italian Pope in more than four centuries.

John Paul II traveled the world carrying the Gospel, survived an assassination attempt, and forgave the man who shot him. In this final part, we follow his papacy to the day the people cried out: a saint, right away.

An old priest lost his voice inside the Temple, and a boy was born to give voice to news the whole world had been waiting for.

A boy from a farming family grew up, became pope at 76, and on a moonlit night sent a goodnight caress to the children of the world.

The story of the young missionary who helped found São Paulo, learned the Tupi language, and wrote a poem to the Virgin Mary in the sand.

A humble carpenter from Nazareth received from God the greatest mission ever entrusted to a man: to care for Jesus and Mary. This is the story of Saint Joseph, the father who protected the Savior in silence.

When a fearsome army marched toward Rome, a pope with no weapons rode out to meet it, carrying only his faith and a word of peace.

In a seaside town in Sicily, a girl whose name meant light gave away everything she had and became the saint of Advent candles.

On a bitterly cold night, a young soldier cut his own cloak in half to warm a beggar. That night, in a dream, he discovered who the beggar was. The story of Saint Martin of Tours, the soldier who became a bishop.

A Polish boy saw Our Lady holding two crowns and chose them both. He became Father Maximilian Kolbe, who spread devotion to Mary around the world through magazines and radio, up to the dark days of the war.

In Auschwitz, Father Maximilian Kolbe offered to die in the place of a father of a family. This is the story of prisoner 16670, who answered hatred with the greatest act of love.

From a small town beside the sea all the way to your house, the name of one kind bishop took a very long journey and came back wearing new clothes.

A poor father had no way to care for his three daughters, until bags of gold began to appear through the window in the middle of the night. This is the most famous story of Saint Nicholas, the saint who inspired Santa Claus.

Kidnapped at sixteen and taken to Ireland as a slave, Patrick found God in the loneliness of the mountains. Years later he returned to that same land — not for revenge, but to bring the Gospel.

Saul of Tarsus left Jerusalem determined to put an end to the Christians. Halfway down the road to Damascus, a light changed everything.

The story of Amabile, the girl who crossed the ocean, cared for the sick in a tiny wooden house, and became the first saint of Brazil.

A fisherman from Galilee heard a call by the shore and left his nets to follow Jesus. One day he would become the very first pope.

Philip walked away from a rich uncle's inheritance to follow God's call to Rome. With humor, music and a great deal of joy, he won over the young people of the streets and became known as the Apostle of Rome.

God worked wonders through Philip: ecstasies at Mass, the gift of reading hearts, unexpected healings. And Philip, always humble and playful, founded the Congregation of the Oratory and died as he had lived, in peace and joy.

A poor boy walked barefoot to school in Italy. One day, he became the pope who opened the doors of Holy Communion to children.

In Italy, long ago, a girl named Rita dreamed of becoming a nun. Life led her down hard roads, but she never stopped trusting God — and one frozen winter, a rose bloomed just for her.

Sebastian was a soldier in the Roman emperor's guard, and he carried a secret: he was a Christian. In secret, he helped the prisoners and strengthened the faith of the persecuted, until the day he had to choose between his life and Christ.

A sensitive girl who lost her mother very early and cried about everything carried in her heart an immense love for Jesus. Discover how Thérèse Martin became the little flower who won God's heart.

Inside Carmel, Thérèse discovered her little way to holiness: not great heroic deeds, but small acts of love. A simple message that would end up changing the world.

His classmates laughed at the big, silent student who hardly ever spoke. His teacher was the only one who saw what was going on inside him.

In 1645, in northeastern Brazil, Father André de Soveral and his companions stayed faithful to God to the very end. The story of Brazil's first martyrs.

Jesus had a grandmother and a grandfather too. The Bible never tells us their names, but Christians have kept this story with love.

In a small Austrian village by the river, a young priest brings a poem he has kept for two years and asks a schoolmaster for a tune by nightfall.

In a house full of children in Hamburg, a pastor hangs a wheel of candles from the ceiling so the wait for Christmas can be seen, one day at a time.

One Christmas night, in a village high on an Italian hillside, Saint Francis wanted to see Bethlehem with his own two eyes.

In the whole Bible, only three angels are given names. One protects, one carries messages, and one walks the road beside a boy.

Francisco was a quiet boy who wanted to console Jesus. Jacinta, the youngest, offered everything she had for sinners. This is the story of the two shepherd children of Fatima, who lived only a short time and loved very much.

Of the three shepherd children of Fatima, Lucia was the one who stayed. She lived ninety-seven years guarding and spreading Our Lady's message: from the little shepherd girl of Aljustrel to Sister Lucia of the Carmel of Coimbra.