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St. Catherine of Siena -- 29 April 2021
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Patron: Fire prevention
Birth: 1347
Death: 1380
St. Catherine of Siena was born during the outbreak of the plague in Siena, Italy on March 25, 1347. She was the 25th child born to her mother, alt... READ MORE |
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St. Peter Chanel -- 28 April 2021
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Patron: of Oceania
Birth: 1803
Death: 1841
In St. Peter Chanel, Priest and Martyr (Feast day - April 28) The protomartyr of the South Seas, St. Peter Chanel was born in 1803 at Clet in the dioces... READ MORE |
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St. Zita -- 27 April 2021
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St. Zita was born into a poor but holy Christian family. Her older sister became a Cistercian nun and her uncle Graziano was a hermit whom the local people regarded as a saint. Zita herself always tri... READ MORE |
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St. Cletus -- 26 April 2021
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St. Cletus was the third bishop of Rome, and succeeded St. Linus, which circumstance alone shows his eminent virtue among the first disciples of St. Peter in the West. He sat twelve years, from 76 to ... READ MORE |
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St. Mark
-- 25 April 2021
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Patron: of notaries, Venice, Barristers
Birth: 1st Century
Death: April 25, 68 AD
Much of what we know about St. Mark, the author of the Second Gospel, comes largely from the New Testament and ea... READ MORE |
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St. Ado of Vienne -- 16 December 2021
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Death: 875
An archbishop and scholar, Ado was born in Sens and educated at the Benedictine abbey of Ferrieres. Abbot Lupus Servatus, an outstanding humanist of the time, trained Ado, and was impres... 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. Ephrem -- 09 June 2021
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Death: 373?
"I was born in the way of truth: though my childhood was unaware of the greatness of the benefit, I knew it when trial came."
Ephrem (or Eprhaim) the Syrian left us hundreds of hymns... READ MORE |
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St. Emily de Vialar
-- 17 June 2021
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St. Emily de Vialar, Virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph "of the Apparition"
Anne Marguerite Adelaide Emily de Vialar was the eldest child and only daughter of Baron James Augustine de V... READ MORE |
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ST. MACARIUS of Egypt (c. 300 – 391) was a Christian monk and hermit. He is also known as Macarius the Elder or Macarius the Great. -- 19 January 2023
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Macarius was born in Lower Egypt. A late tradition places his birthplace in the village of Shabsheer (Shanshour), Roman Egypt around 300 AD. At some point before his pursuit of asceticism, Macarius ma... READ MORE |
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