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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. Valerian -- 15 September 2020
 
The massacre of the martyrs of Lyons with their bishop, St. Pothinus, took place during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius in the year 177. Marcellus, a priest, we are told, by Divine intervention, m... READ MORE
Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius -- 09 October 2021
 
Patron: of France; Paris; against frenzy, strife, headaches, hydrophobia, possessed people, rabies The first mention we have of these three martyrs who died around 258 A.D. comes in the sixth centu... READ MORE
St. Luke -- 18 October 2021
 
Patron: Physicians and Surgeons Luke, the writer of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles, has been identified with St. Paul's "Luke, the beloved physician" (Colossians 4:14). We know few other f... READ MORE
St. Edmund Rich -- 20 November 2021
 
Patron: of Abingdon, Oxfordshire; Roman Catholic Diocese of Portsmouth; St Edmund's College, Cambridge Birth: 1175 Death: 1240 Archbishop of Canterbury England, who battled for discipline and jus... READ MORE
St. Martha -- 29 July 2021
 
Patron: of cooks "Jesus loved Martha and Mary and Lazarus." This unique statement in John's gospel tells us of the special relationship Jesus had with Martha, her sister, and her brother. Appare... READ MORE
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