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Bl. Richard Thirkeld
Born: at Coniscliffe, Durham, England Died: hanged, drawn, and quartered on 29 May 1583 at York, England Beatified: 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation) Educated at Queen’s College, Oxford, 1564 – 1565. Studied at Douai and Rheims, France. Ordained on 18 April 1579 at an age somewhat older than his confreres. Returned […]
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St. Donatian and St. Rogatian
Died: around 287 Nantes Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox ChurchFeast: 24 May There lived at Nantes an illustrious young nobleman named Donatian, who, having received the holy Sacrament of regeneration, led a most edifying life and strove with much zeal to convert others to faith in Christ. His elder brother, Rogatian, was not […]
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St. Rita of Cascia
Born: 1386 at Roccaparena, Umbria, Italy Died: 22 May 1457 at the Augustinian convent at Cascia, Italy of tuberculosis Canonized: 24 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII Patronage: abuse victims; spouse abuse victims, against infertility or sterility; infertile people, against loneliness, against sickness or bodily ills; sick people, against wounds; wounded people, desperate, forgotten, lost […]
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St. Restituta of Corsica
Died: beheaded 21 May in 217, 218, 225 or 303 (records vary), relics interred under the altar in the chapel of Saint Resistude in Calenzana in the 16th century and re-discovered during repairs in 1951 Patronage: Calenzana, Corsica, France (declared in 1984 by the Congregation for Divine Worship), Balagne, Corsica, France (declared in 1984 by […]
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St. Richrudis of Marchiennes
Born: 612 in Gascony, France Died: 12 May 687 in Marchiennes, Belgium of natural causes, relics translated to Paris, France, relics destroyed in 1793 during the French Revolution Feast day: 12 May Born to the nobility, the daughter of Ernold. Married to the Frankish nobleman Saint Adalbald of Ostrevant. Her family objected to Adalbald’s military incursions […]
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St. Rose Venerini
Born: 9 February 1656 at Viterbo, Italy Died: 7 May 1728 at Rome, Italy of natural causes Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church (Venerini Sisters) Beatified: May 4, 1952 by Pope Pius XII Canonized: 15 October 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI Major shrine: Maestre Pie Venerini, Via Giuseppe Gioachino Belli 31, 00193 Rome, Italy Feast: May 7 […]
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St. Richard Pampuri
Born: 2 August 1897 Trivolzio, Pavia, Kingdom of Italy Died: 1 May 1930 in Milan, Italy of pleurisy, tuberculosis and pneumonia Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church (Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God) Beatified: 4 October 1981, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 1 November 1989, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican […]
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St. Roman Adame Rosales
Birth: 27 February 1859 at Teocaltiche, Jalisco, Mexico Died: shot on 21 April 1927 in a cemetery near Yahualican, Jalisco, Mexico Beatified: Pope John Paul II on November 22, 1992 Canonized: 21 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee of Mexico Feast day: May 21 Román Adame Rosales was born on February […]
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St. Raymond Nonnatus
Born: 1204 Portell, County of Segarra, Principality of Catalonia, Crown of Aragon, (current Spain) Died: August 31, 1240 Castle of Cardona, County of Cardona, Principality of Catalonia, Crown of Aragon, (current Spain) Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Canonized 1657, Rome, by Pope Alexander VII Feast: August 31 Patronage: Baitoa, Dominican Republic; childbirth; expectant mothers; pregnant […]
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St. Raymond of Toulouse
Born: Toulouse, France Died: 3 July 1118 Toulouse, France Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Major shrine: Basilica of St. Sernin, Toulouse Feast: 8 July Raymond of Toulouse, also known as Raymond Gayrard, was a chanter and canon renowned for generosity. A native of Toulouse, who entered religious life after the death of his wife. He […]
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