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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. Buonfiglio Monaldo -- 12 February 2021
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| He was one of seven Florentines who had joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin (the Laudesi) in a particularly lax period in the city's history and who were inspired by a vision on the feast o... READ MORE |
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St. John Joseph of the Cross -- 05 March 2021
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| Patron: of Ischia
Birth: 1654
Death: 1739
St. John Joseph of the Cross was born about the middle of the seventeenth century in the beautiful island of Ischia, near Naples. From his childhood he w... READ MORE |
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St. Padre Pio
-- 23 September 2020
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| Patron: of Civil defense volunteers, Adolescents, Pietrelcina, Stress relief, & January blues
Birth: 1887
Death: 1968
Canonized: Pope John Paul II
St. Padre Pio was an Italian priest who was kno... READ MORE |
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St. Matthias
-- 14 May 2021
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| How does one qualify to be an apostle?
The first act of the apostles after the Ascension of Jesus was to find a replacement for Judas. With all the questions, doubts, and dangers facing them, they ... READ MORE |
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St. Gregory Barbarigo -- 18 June 2021
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| Birth: 1625
Death: 1697
St. Gregory Barbarigo was born in 1625, of a very old and distinguished Venetian family. A brilliant student, he embraced a diplomatic career and accompanied the Venetian A... READ MORE |
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