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St. Olaf II
Born: 995 Died: killed in battle at Stiklestadt on 29 July 1030 while trying to recover his throne, buried at the Trondheim Cathedral, miracles reported at his tomb, and it became a noted place of pilgrimage for Scandanavians Canonized: 1164 by Pope Alexander III Patronage: carvers, difficult marriages, kings, Norway. Also known as Heilag-Olav, Holy […]
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St. Oringa of the Cross
Died: 1310 at Castello di Santa Croce, Tuscany, Italy of natural causes Also known as Christiana of the Cross Memorials 4 January as Oringa, 10 January as Christiana Pious farm girl who fled her home to escape an arranged marriage. Worked as a servant in Lucca, Italy then became an itinerant miracle worker in the […]
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St. Odilo of Cluny
Born: 962 at Auvergne, France Died: 1 January 1049 at Souvigny, France of natural causes, relics burned in 1793 during the French Revolution Patronage: against jaundice, souls in Purgatory. Also known as Archangel of Monks, Olon, Odilon Additional Memorials 29 April as one of the Seven Abbots of Cluny, 19 January in Cluny (formerly 2 […]
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St. Oswald of Northumbria
Born: c. 604 Deira, Northumbria Died: 5 August 641/642 Venerated: in Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Eastern Orthodoxy Canonized: Pre-Congregation Major shrine: Bardney Abbey, Lincolnshire, England; relics later translated to St Oswald’s Priory, Gloucester, England Feast: 5 August Son of the pagan King Aethelfrith the Ravager of Bernicia and Princess Aacha of Deira, the second of […]
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Bl. Otto Neururer
Birth name: Otto Neururer Born: 25 March 1882 Piller, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary Died: 30 May 1940 (aged 58) Buchenwald, Gau Thuringia, Germany Feast day: 30 May Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 24 November 1996 Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Patronage: Preachers, Marriage Blessed Otto Neururer (25 March 1882 – 30 […]
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St. Osmund
Born: Seez, Normandy Died: 3 or 4 December 1099 Salisbury Sainthood Feast day: 16 July, 4 December Venerated: in Catholic Church Canonized: 1 January 1457 by Pope Callixtus III Patronage: insanity; mental illness; mentally ill people; paralysed people; paralysis; ruptures; toothache St. Osmund (died 3 December 1099), Count of Sées, was a Norman noble and clergyman. […]
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St.Odran of Iona
Feast day: October 27 Death: 548 Otteran served as abbot of the Irish monastery of Tyfarnham in Meath, and founded another abbey at Latteragh in County Tipperary. Although little is known about his life, he is described as “noble and without sin.” He was later to leave Ireland with eleven others to accompany the Irish […]
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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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