Luigi Beltrame Quattrocchi was born in 1880 in Italy. He went to school to become a lawyer. By the time he retired, he was the attorney general of Italy. He was friends with many political leaders. After World War II he worked to rebuild Italy.
Charles was raised by his grandfather in Strasbourg, France, after his parents died in 1864, when he was six. He was baptized and made his First Communion, but never really believed in the Christian life.
When Mary Frances Schervier was 16, her mother and sisters died from tuberculosis, a highly contagious disease at the time. So when Frances told her father she wanted to visit the poor and the sick in their city of Aachen, Germany, he was worried that his daughter might bring disease into their home or grow ill herself. He told her she could not perform this act of charity.
Marcel Callo was born in France in 1921. Marcel grew up as a typical boy, enjoying games and sports and being in the scouts. However, Marcel was special because of his deep love for the Lord and his deep desire to serve him.
Though he lived a short life, Andrew of Phú Yen was an amazing witness for Christ to the people of Vietnam.
Isidore Bakanja was born in 1887 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the age of eighteen, Isidore accepted Christ through the local missionaries.