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St. Leger
Birth: 615 Death: 679 Feast day: October 2 Leger was raised at the court of King Clotaire II and by his uncle, Bishop Didon of Poitiers. Leger was made archdeacon by Didon, was ordained, and in about 651, became abbot of Maxentius Abbey, where he introduced the Rule of St. Benedict. He served Queen Regent […]
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St. Louis Bertrand
Born: 1 January 1526 at Valencia, Spain Died: 9 October 1581 of natural causes at Valencia, Spain Canonized: 12 April 1671 by Pope Clement X Patronage: Caribbean vicariates, Colombia, Dominican novices Feast day: October 9 Relative of Saint Vincent Ferrer. Deeply religious from childhood, Louis joined the Dominicans in 1544 at age 18. Ordained in […]
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St. Lorenzo Ruiz of Manila
Born: c.1600 at Binondo, Manila, Philippines Died: 29-30 September 1637 at Nagasaki, Japan by being crushed over a period of three days while hanging upside down, body burned, ashes thrown into the Pacific OceanVenerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: February 18, 1981, Manila, Philippines by Pope Saint John Paul II Canonized: October 18, 1987, Vatican City […]
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Bl. Lorenzo of Ripafratta
Born: c.1373 in Ripafratta, Italy Died: 1456 in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy of natural causes, buried at the Dominican church in Pistoia, miracles reported at his tomb Beatified: 1851 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmation) Born to the Italian nobility, Lorenzo’s family had a military history and a duty to protect the outer defenses of the city of […]
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Bl. Ladislas of Gielniów
Born: c. 1440 Gniezno, Kingdom of Poland Died: 4 May 1505 of natural causes Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 11 February 1750, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Papal States by Pope Benedict XIV Feast: 4 May, 25 September (Poland) Patronage: Lithuania (chosen in August 1753), Poland (chosen in August 1753), Galicia (eastern Europe), Warsaw, Poland (chosen […]
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St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort
Born: 31 January 1673 at Montfort-La-Cane, Brittany, France Died: 28 April 1716 at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sovre, France of natural causes Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 1888 by Pope Leo XIII Canonized: 20 July 1947 by Pope Pius XII Patronage: preachers, Brothers of Saint Gabriel, Company of Mary, Daughters of Divine Wisdom Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (31 January […]
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St. Leonides
Died: 202 Alexandria, Egypt Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Canonized: Pre-congregation Feast: 22 April Patronage Large families The Emperor Severus, in the year 202, the tenth of his reign, raised a bloody persecution which filled the entire empire with martyrs, but especially Egypt. The most illustrious of those who by their triumphs […]
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Pope St. Leo IX
Birth name: Bruno von Eguisheim-Dagsburg Born: 21 June 1002 Egisheim, Alsace, Duchy of Swabia, Holy Roman Empire Papal Ascension: 12 February 1049 Died: 19 April 1054 (aged 51) Rome, Papal States Feast day: 19 April Venerated: in Catholic Church Canonized: 1082 by Pope Gregory VII Patronage: Sessa Aurunca, Italy Pope St. Leo IX, born Bruno of […]
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Bl. Lucien Botovasoa
Born: 1908 Vohipeno, Madagascar Died: 14 April 1947 (aged 38–39) Ambohimanarivo, Manakara, Madagascar Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 15 April 2018, Vohipeno, Madagascar by Cardinal Maurice Piat Feast: 14 April Patronage: Married couples, Fathers, Teachers Blessed Lucien Botovasoa (1908 – 14 April 1947) was a Madagascan Roman Catholic schoolteacher and a professed member from the Secular Franciscan Order. Botovasoa served as […]
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St. Lawrence Justinian
Born: July 1, 1381 Venice, Republic of Venice Died: January 8, 1456 (aged 74) Venice, Republic of Venice Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 1524, Rome, Papal States by Pope Clement VII Canonized: 16 October 1690, Rome, Papal States by Pope Alexander VIII Major shrine: Basilica of San Pietro di Castello Castello, Venice, Italy Feast: January […]
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