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 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.

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.

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.

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.