Saints
St.Ursula and her Companions
Died: October 21, 383 Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church (formerly) Anglican Communion Major shrine: Church of St. Ursula, Cologne Feast: October 21 Attributes: arrow; banner; cloak; clock; maiden shot with arrows; depicted accompanied by a varied number of companions who are being martyred in various ways; ship Patronage Cologne, England, archers, orphans, female students, Binangonan, […]
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Bl.Oleksa Zaryckyj
Birth: 1912 Death: 1963 Beatified: by Pope John Paul II Feastday: October 20 Oleksa Zaryckyj was born October 17, 1912 in the village of Bilco, region of Ukraine in Lviv (Lvov). In 1931 he entered the seminary in Lviv and five years after he was ordained to the priesthood by Metropolitan Sheptytsky as a diocesan […]
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St.Acca of Hexham
Born: 660 Died: 740 or 742 Venerated: in Roman Catholicism; Anglicanism; Eastern Orthodoxy Major shrine: Hexham Abbey, Northumberland (part of his cross survives) Feast: 20 October Life Born in Northumbria, Acca first served in the household of Bosa, the future Bishop of York, but later attached himself to Wilfrid, possibly as early as 678, and […]
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St.Maria Bertilla Boscardin
Born: 6 October 1888 Brendola, Veneto, Italy Died: 20 October 1922 (aged 34) Treviso, Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified June 8, 1952 by Pope Pius XII Canonized: May 11, 1961 by Pope John XXIII Major shrine: Vicenza, Veneto, Italy Feast: October 20 Maria Bertilla Boscardin (6 October 1888 – 20 October 1922) was […]
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St.Paul of the Cross
Born: Paolo Francesco Danei 3 January 1694 Ovada, Piedmont, Duchy of Savoy (now modern-day Italy) Died: 18 October 1775 (aged 81) Church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, Rome Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 1 May 1853, Rome by Pope Pius IX Canonized 29 June 1867, Rome by Pope Pius IX Major shrine: Church of […]
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Martyrs of North America
Born: France Died: 17th century, Canada and Upstate New York Martyred: by Iroquois Venerated in Roman Catholic Church Anglican Church Beatified: June 21, 1925, Rome, by Pope Pius XI Canonized: June 29, 1930, Rome, by Pope Pius XI Major shrine: Martyrs’ Shrine, Midland, Ontario, Canada National Shrine of the North American Martyrs, Auriesville, New York […]
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Bl.Burchard I of Halberstadt
Burchard I of Halberstadt, also Burchard of Nabburg, (* 1000 in Nabburg, † October 18, 1059 in Halberstadt ) was a German cleric and politician and Bishop of Halberstadt. Life Burchard was a son of Heinrich von Schweinfurt , margrave in the Bavarian Nordgau, and the Gerberga von Henneberg , a daughter of Count Otto […]
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St.Peter of Alcantara
Born: 1499 Alcántara, Spain Died: 18 October, 1562 (aged 62-63) Arenas de San Pedro, Spain Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified April 18, 1622 by Pope Gregory XV Canonized: April 28, 1669 by Pope Clement IX Feast: October 19 Attributes: Franciscan habit Patronage Brazil, Eucharistic adoration, Extremadura, Pakil, Laguna He was born at Alcántara, Province […]
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St.Isaac Jogues
Born: 10 January 1607 Orléans, Orléanais, Kingdom of France Died: 18 October 1646 (aged 39) Ossernenon, Canada, New France Venerated in Catholic Church (Canada and the United States) Beatified: 21 June 1925, Rome, Italy, by Pope Pius XI Canonized: 29 June 1930, Vatican City by Pope Pius XI Major shrine: National Shrine of the North […]
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St.Luke the Evangelist
Born: Antioch, Syria, Roman Empire Died: March 84 AD Near Boeotia, Greece Venerated in In all Christian Churches Major shrine: Padua, Italy Feast: 18 October Attributes: Evangelist, Physician, a bishop, a book or a pen, a man accompanied by a winged ox/winged calf/ox, a man painting an icon of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a brush]or […]
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