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St. Pharaildis of Ghent
Born: c.650 in Ghent, Belgium Died: c.740 of natural causes Patronage: against childhood diseases, difficult marriages, poultry, victims of abuse, widows, Ghent, Belgium, Smetlede, Belgium, Bruay, France Also known as Farahilde, Farailde, Pharaild, Pharailde, Pherailde, Vareide, Varelde, Veerhilde, Veerle, Verylde Sister of Saint Gudule. Niece of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles. After making a private vow […]
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St. Peter of Palestine
Born: Palestine Died: crucified c.311 in the region of Greece and Albania Also known as Peter Balsam, Peter Aulanus, Petrus Balsamus, Pierre Basalme Imprisoned, tortured and martyred for his faith.
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St. Pothinus
Also called Photinus, leader of a group of Christian martyrs in the city of Lyons, in Roman Gaul, including Alexander, Attalus, Espagathus, Maturus, and Sanctius. Their martyrdom was recorded in an extant and authentic letter sent from the Christian communities of Lyons and Vienne to their brethren in the Roman province of Asia. It is […]
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Sts. Primus and Felicianus
Born: early 3rd century; Nomentum (modern-day Mentana) Feast: June 9 These two martyrs were brothers who lived in Rome, heirs of a family of great wealth, toward the latter part of the third century. It was through the assiduous love of Pope Felix I that they had the happiness, in their mature years, of being […]
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St. Pelagia
Feast day: October 8 St. Pelagia had been a comedian at Antioch, even whilst she was a catechumen; but afterwards renounced that profession, and became a true penitent. The manner of her conversion is thus related in the Greek Menæa, published by the Emperor Basil. The Patriarch of Antioch having assembled a council of bishops […]
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St. Peter Ou
Born: 1768 at Longping in Guizhou Province, China Died: strangled to death on 7 November 1814 at Tsen-y-Fou, Su-Tchuen province, China Beatified: 27 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII Canonized: 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: November 7 Born to a non-Christian family. Known from his youth for his sense of […]
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St. Philip Howard
Born: 28 June 1557 at Norfolk, England Died: 19 October 1595 of malnutrition in the Tower of London, London, England, buried in the graveyard of the Tower church near his father and grandfather, re-interred in Long Horsley in 1624, re-interred in the Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel, relics re-interred in the Arundel cathedral in 1971 Canonized: 25 October […]
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St. Pirmin
Born: 700 somewhere in Spain Died: November 3, 753 Hornbach, Germany Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican Church Patronage: against poisoning, against snake bite, Monsheim, Germany Feast: November 3 Possibly of Visigoth ancestry. Monk, following a mixed rule with strong influences from Irish monasticism. When the Saracens invaded Spain, he fled to […]
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St. Pierre-François Néron
Born: 21 September 1818 in Bornay, Jura, diocese of St-Claude, France Died: beheaded on 3 November 1860 in Son Tây, Ha Tay, Vietnam, severed head throw into the river and body buried at the execution site, in 1880 his body was re-interred in the crypt in church that was built next to his execution site […]
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St. Padre Pio
Born: 25 May 1887 Pietrelcina, Benevento, Kingdom of Italy Died: 23 September 1968 (aged 81) San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia, Italy Resting place Sanctuary of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 2 May 1999, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 16 June 2002, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City […]
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