The seven brothers were the sons of St. Felicitas, a noble, pious, Christian widow in Rome, who, after the death of her husband, served God in a state of continency and employed herself wholly in prayer, fasting, and works of charity.

Six days before his death he ordered his grave to be opened, and fell ill of a fever, he calmly expired in prayer on the 21st of March, 547.

St. John Gualbert was born at Florence, A. D. 999. Following the profession of arms at that troubled period, he became involved in a blood-feud with a near relative.

In 1022 Henry lay on his bed of death. He gave back to her parents his wife, St. Cunegunda, "a virgin still, as a virgin he had received her from Christ," and surrendered his own pure soul to God.

The early years of Camillus gave no sign of sanctity.

He is known also as the "Seraphic Doctor," from the fervor of divine love which breathes in his writings.