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St. Agnes of Montepulciano -- 20 April 2023
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Agnes was born in 1268 into the noble Segni family in Gracciano, a frazione of Montepulciano, then part of the Papal States. At the age of nine, she convinced her parents to allow her to enter a Franc... READ MORE |
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Benjamin the Deacon and Martyr -- 31 March 2023
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Benjamin (AD 329 – c.?424) was a deacon martyred circa 424 in Persia. Benjamin was executed during a period of persecution of Christians that lasted forty years and through the reign of two Persian ki... READ MORE |
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St Domninus of Thessalonica -- 30 March 2023
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Saint Domnius (also known as Saint Dujam or Saint Duje, Saint Domnio, Saint Doimus, or Saint Domninus) was a Bishop of Salona (today's Solin) around the year 300, and is venerated as the patron of the... READ MORE |
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Saint Constantine of Monte Cassino -- 29 March 2023
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Constantine the African (Latin: Constantinus Africanus; died before 1098/1099, Monte Cassino) was a physician who lived in the 11th century. The first part of his life was spent in Ifriqiya and the re... READ MORE |
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Saint John of Capistrano -- 28 March 2023
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John of Capistrano (Italian: San Giovanni da Capestrano, Hungarian: Kapisztrán János, Polish: Jan Kapistran, Croatian: Ivan Kapistran) (24 June 1386 – 23 October 1456) was a Franciscan friar and Catho... READ MORE |
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St. David I of Scotland -- 24 May 2021
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Birth: ~1080
Death: 1153
David, the youngest son of Scotland's virtuous queen, (Saint) Margaret, succeeded his brother to the Scottish throne in 1124. David's friend, (Saint) Aelred, abbot of the ... READ MORE |
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St. Augustine of Canterbury
-- 27 May 2021
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Death: 605
At the end of the sixth century anyone would have said that Augustine had found his niche in life. Looking at this respected prior of a monastery, almost anyone would have predicted he w... READ MORE |
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St. Joan of Arc
-- 30 May 2021
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Patron: of soldiers and France
Birth: 1412
Death: 1431
Canonized: Pope Benedict XV
St. Joan of Arc is the patroness of soldiers and of France.
On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to piou... READ MORE |
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St. Mechtildis -- 31 May 2021
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Death: 1160
Benedictine abbess and miracle worker. She was the daughter of Count Berthold of Andechs, in modem Bavaria, Germany. The count and his wife, Sophia, founded a monastery on their estate... READ MORE |
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Sts. Marcellinus and Peter -- 02 June 2021
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Death: 304
Though we know very little about these two martyrs under Diocletian, there is no question that the early church venerated them. Evidence of the respect in which they were held are the ba... READ MORE |
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