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St. John of the Cross 
-- 14 December 2020
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| Patron: of Contemplatives, mystics and Spanish poets
Birth: 1542
Death: December 14, 1591
Beatified: January 25, 1675 by Pope Clement X
Canonized: December 27, 1726 by Pope Benedict XIII
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St. Lucy
-- 13 December 2020
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| Patron: of Blindness
Lucy's history has been lost and all we really know for certain is that this brave woman who lived in Syracuse lost her life during the persecution of Christians in the early f... READ MORE |
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Our Lady of Guadalupe
-- 12 December 2020
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| Patron: of the Americas
An elder Mexican man makes his way to Mass in the early morning twilight of December 9, 1531. He is a peasant, a simple farmer and laborer, and he has no education. Born und... READ MORE |
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Pope Saint Damasus I
-- 11 December 2020
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| Birth: 306
Death: 384
All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, the Vulgate version of t... READ MORE |
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Pope Saint Gregory III -- 10 December 2020
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| He was just standing there, not doing anything special. As a Syrian priest he must have felt a little out of place among the Roman people mourning that day for the dead Pope. As a good preacher, he mu... READ MORE |
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St. Julie Billiart -- 08 April 2021
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| Birth: 1751
St. Julie (Julia) Billiart was born in 1751 and died in 1816. As a child, playing "school" was Julie's favorite game. When she was sixteen, to help support her family, she began to teac... READ MORE |
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St. Anicetus -- 17 April 2021
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| Anicetus was a Syrian from Emesa. He became pope about 155 and actively opposed Marcionism and Gnosticism. His pontificate saw the appearance of the controversy between East and West over the date of ... READ MORE |
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St. Alphege -- 19 April 2021
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| Patron: of Greenwich; Solihull; kidnap victims
Birth: 953
Death: 1012
Archbishop and "the First Martyr of Canterbury." He was born in 953 and became a monk in the Deerhurst Monastery in Glouceste... READ MORE |
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St. John the Silent -- 13 May 2021
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| Birth: 452
Death: 558
Bishop of Colonia in Palestine and a hermit. Born in Nicopolis, Armenia, he established a monastery at the age of eighteen. Appointed a bishop at the age of twenty-eight, he ... READ MORE |
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St. Catherine of Alexandria
-- 25 November 2020
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| Patron: of students, unmarried girls, apologists
Birth: 287
Death: 305
Saint Catherine of Alexandria is a canonized saint in the Catholic Church who, per Christian tradition, was martyred around ... READ MORE |
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