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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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Sts. Sarbelius & Barbea -- 29 January 2021
 
Death: 101 Two martyrs, brother and sister, who were put to death at Edessa during the persecutions of Emperor Trajan. Sarbelius, also called Sharbel, was a high priest at Edessa, in Mesopotamia. T... READ MORE
St. Edith Stein -- 09 August 2021
 
Death: 1942 Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)Virgin and Martyr Edith Stein, born in 1891 in Breslau, Poland, was the youngest child of a large Jewish family. She was an outstanding ... READ MORE
St. Michael de Sanctis -- 10 April 2021
 
Patron: of cancer patients Birth: 1591 Death: 1625 Michael de Sanctis was born in Catalonia, Spain around 1591. At the age of six he informed his parents that he was going to be a monk. Moreover,... READ MORE
St. Thomas Aquinas -- 28 January 2021
 
Patron: of students and all universities Birth: 1226 Death: 1274 Canonized: Pope John XXII in 1323 Thomas is believed to have been born in the castle of Roccasecca in the old county of the Kingd... READ MORE
St. Maria Giuseppe Rossello -- 07 December 2020
 
Foundress of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy. She was born at Albisola Marina, Liguria, Italy, in 1811, and was baptized Benedetta. At sixteen she became a Franciscan tertiary, and in 1837, she and... READ MORE
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