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St. John of the Cross 
-- 14 December 2021
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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 2021
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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 2021
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| Patron: of the Americas
n 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 unde... READ MORE |
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Pope Saint Damasus I
-- 11 December 2021
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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 2021
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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. Bernardino Realino
-- 02 July 2020
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| Birth: 1530
Death: 1616
St. Bernardino Realino was born into a noble family of Capri, Italy in 1530. After receiving a thorough and devout Christian education at the hands of his mother, he went o... READ MORE |
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Sts. Joachim and Anne
-- 26 July 2021
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| Saints Joachim (sometimes spelled "Joaquin," pronounced "wal-keem") and Anne, are the parents of the Virgin Mary. There are no mentions of them in the Bible or Gospels, what we know comes from Catholi... READ MORE |
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St. Clare of Montefalco -- 17 August 2021
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| Birth: 1268
Death: 1308
Clare was born at Montefalco, Italy, around 1268. As a young woman she joined a convent of Franciscan tertiaries. This group established Holy Cross Convent at Montefalco in... READ MORE |
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St. Rosalia -- 04 September 2021
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| Death: 1160
St. Rosalia, daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Roses and Quisquina, was a descendant of the great Charlemagne. She was born at Palermo in Sicily. In her youth, her heart turned from earthly... READ MORE |
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St. Eugenia -- 25 December 2020
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| There definitely was a Roman martyr named Eugenia but the rest of her story is a romantic fictitious legend. According to it she was the daughter of Duke Philip of Alexandria, governor of Egypt during... READ MORE |
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