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St. John Bosco
Born: 16 August 1815 Castelnuovo d’Asti, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia Died: 31 January 1888 (aged 72) Turin, Kingdom of Italy Venerated: in Catholic Church, Anglican Community Beatified: 2 June 1929, Rome by Pius XI Canonized: 1 April 1934, Rome by Pius XI Major shrine Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, Turin, Italy Feast: 31 […]
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St. Joseph of Cupertino
Birth: 1603, Giuseppe Desa Death: 1663 (aged 60) Osimo, Marche, Papal StatesVenerated: in Roman Catholic Church (Franciscans) Beatified: 24 February 1753, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Benedict XIV Canonized: 16 July 1767, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Clement XIII Major shrine: Basilica of St. Joseph of Cupertino, Piazza Gallo, 10, Osimo, Ancona, Italy Patronage: The […]
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St. Januarius of Naples
Born: Benevento, Italy or Naples, Italy (records vary) Died: martyred c.304 at Naples, Italy or Pozzuoli, Italy (sources vary), first thrown to wild bests, when the animals would not attack him, he was beheaded Patronage: against volcanic eruptions, blood banks, Benevento, Italy, diocese of Naples, Italy, archdiocese of, Naples, ItalyFeast day: September 19 Fourth century […]
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St. Jean-Charles Cornay
Born: 27 February 1809 at Loudun, diocese of Poitiers, Vienne, France Died: beheaded and his body hacked to pieces on 20 September 1837 at Son Tây, Ha Tây, Vietnam Canonized: 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: September 20 Priest. Member of the Paris Society of Foreign Missions. Missionary to Vietnam, working […]
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St. Jacques Honoré Chastán
Born: 7 October 1803 in Marcoux, Basses-Alpes, France Died: beaten with a bastinado and beheaded on 21 September 1839 at Saenamteo, Seoul, South Korea Canonized: 6 May 1984 by Pope John Paul II in Korea Feast day: September 21 Ordained in 1826. Joined the Paris Society of Missions in 1827. Missionary in Thailand, then Malaysia, and […]
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St. Jerome
Born: 2 January 1873 at Alcon, Normandy, France as Francoise-Marie Therese Martin Canonized: 17 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI Died: 7pm Thursday 30 September 1897 at Lisieux, France of tuberculosis Patronage: African missions, sick people; against bodily ills, illness or sickness, AIDS patients, air crews or pilots; aviators, Australia, black missions, florists and flower […]
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Bl. José Canet Ginet
Born: 24 August 1903 in Bellreguard, Valencia, Spain Died: shot on 4 October 1936 in La Pedrera de Gandía, Valencia, Spain Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: October 4 Born to a poor family. Studied at the seminary in Valencia, Spain. Ordained a priest in the archdiocese of Valencia, Spain […]
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St. John Henry Newman
Born: 21 February 1801 at London, England Died: 11 August 1890 at Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England of pneumonia Beatified: Sunday 19 September 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI, recognition celebrated at an outdoor Mass in Coventry, Diocese of Birmingham, England Canonized: on 12 February 2019 Pope Francis promulgated a decree of miracle obtained through the […]
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Pope St. John XXIII
Born: 25 November 1881 at Sotto il Monte, diocese of Bergamo, Italy as Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Papal Ascension: elected 28 October 1958, installed on 4 November 1958 Died: 7:50pm on 3 June 1963 at Rome, Italy of stomach cancer, buried in Saint Peter’s basilica, Vatican City Venerated: in Catholic Church Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Anglican […]
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Bl. Jerzy Popieluszko
Born: 14 September 1947 Okopy, near Suchowola, Polish People’s Republic Died: kidnapped on 19 October 1984 by the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the Communist Polish secret police, beaten to death from 19 to 20 October 1984 near Wloclawek, Pomorskie, Poland, body dumped in the Vistula Water Reservoir where it […]
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