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Sts. Joachim and Anne -- 26 July 2021
 
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
St. James the Greater -- 25 July 2021
 
Patron: of pilgrims and Spain Death: 44 Nothing is known of St. James the Greater's early life, though it has been established that he is the son of Zebedee and Salome and brother of John the disc... READ MORE
St. John Boste -- 24 July 2021
 
Birth: 1544 Death: 1594 One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born at Dufton, at Westmoreland, England, and studied at Oxford. Becoming a Catholic in 1576, he went to Reims and rec... READ MORE
St. Bridget of Sweden -- 23 July 2021
 
Patron: of Sweden Saint Birgitta was the daughter of Uppland's Lagman, Birger Petersson and his wife, Ingeborg, who was a member of the same clan as the reigning family. Birgitta's family was pious... READ MORE
St. Mary Magdalene -- 22 July 2021
 
Patron: of contemplative life, converts, glove makers, hairdressers, penitent sinners, people ridiculed for their piety, perfumeries, pharmacists, sexual temptation, tanners, women St. Mary Magdale... READ MORE
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St. Timothy -- 26 January 2021
 
Born at Lystra, Lycaenia, Timothy was the son of a Greek father and Eunice, a converted Jewess. He joined St. Paul when Paul preached at Lystra replacing Barnabas, and became Paul's close friend and c... READ MORE
St. James Intercisus -- 27 November 2021
 
James was a favorite of King Yezdigerd I of Persia and a Christian. He abandoned his religion when Yesdigerd launched a persecution of the Christians. When the king died, James repented of his apostas... READ MORE
Pope Saint Damasus I -- 11 December 2021
 
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
St. Nemesius -- 19 December 2021
 
Martyr of Egypt. He was burned alive in Alexandria, Egypt, during the persecutions under Emperor Trajanus Decius. Nemesius was arrested and scourged and then burned to death. Like Christ, he was execu... READ MORE
St. Dismas -- 25 March 2021
 
All that is known of Dismas is that he is the Good Thief crucified with Christ on Calvary. The other thief is known as Gestas. A completely unsubstantiated myth from the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy t... READ MORE
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