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St. Mother Theodore Guerin
Born: 2 October 1798 at Etables-sur-Mer, Brittany, France as Anne-Thérèse Guérin Died: 14 May 1856 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, USA, of natural causes, buried at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Canonized: 15 October 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI Patronage: Lafayette, Indiana Feast day: October 3 Daughter of Laurent and Isabelle Guérin. Joined the […]
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St. Tarachus and his Companions
During the persecution of Diocletian in the year 304, Tarachus, Probus, and Andronicus, differing in age and nationality but united in the bonds of faith, were denounced as Christians to the governor of Cilicia. They were arrested at Pompeiopolis, and conducted to Tarsus. The acts of these glorious martyrs are one of the most precious […]
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St. Teresa of Avila
Born: 28 March 1515 at Avila, Castile, Spain as Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada Died: 4 October 1582 at Alba de Tormes of natural causes in the arms of her secretary and close friend Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew, body incorrupt, relics preserved at Alba, her heart shows signs of Transverberation (piercing of the […]
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Bl. Társila Córdoba Belda de Girona
Born: 8 May 1861 in Sollana, Valencia, Spain Died: shot at dawn on 17 October 1936 against the wall of the cemetery in Algemesí, Valencia, Spain Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: October 17 Lifelong lay woman in the archdiocese of Valencia, Spain. Married to Girona Lozano in 1884; mother […]
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St. Thecla of Iconium
Died: late 1st century of natural causes, buried in Seleucia, Pamphylia, Anatolia (in modern Turkey) First century convert in Iconium, brought to the faith by the preaching of Saint Paul the Apostle; her family threw her out. She dedicated herself to God, became a spiritual student of Saint Paul, and assisted him in his travels […]
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St. Thomas of Villanova
Born: Tomás García y Martínez 1488 in Villanueva de los Infantes, Ciudad Real, Spain Died: September 8, 1555 in Valencia, Spain Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church (Order of St. Augustine) Canonized: November 1, 1658 by Pope Alexander VII Feast: September 22 Patronage: Santolan, (Pasig City), Alimodian and Miag-ao (Iloilo), Villanova University St. Thomas of Villanova (1488 […]
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St. Tryphillius of Leucosia
Born: Rome, Italy Died: 370 of natural causesVenerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Feast: 13 June (Western calendar) Educated in Constantinople. Worked as a lawyer. Convert to Christianity. Spritiual student of Saint Spyridon of Cyprus. Bishop of Leucosia (modern Nicosia), Cyprus. Supported Saint Athanasius of Alexandria in his opposition to Arianism; Saint Athanasius […]
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Bl. Teresa Demjanovich
Born: March 26, 1901 Bayonne, New Jersey, United States Residence Convent Station, New Jersey, United States Died: 8 May 1927 in Convent Station, New Jersey of complications follwing appendicitis Venerated: in Catholic Church (United States) Beatified: October 4, 2014, Newark, New Jersey, United States, by Angelo AmatoMajor shrine: Sisters of Charity Motherhouse, Convent Station, New […]
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Bl. Tommaso Acerbis
Born: 1563 in Olera, Bergamo, Italy Died: 3 May 1631 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria of natural causes, buried in the crypt of the chapel of Our Lady at the local Capuchin church in Innsbruck Beatified: 21 September 2013 by Pope Francis Feast: 3 May Born to a poor family, the boy worked as a shepherd […]
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St. Tertullian
Born: 160, in Carthage, Tunisia Nationality: Tunisian Died: at the Age of 65, on 225 Tertullian, the prominent early apologist who produced the world’s first extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature was born as Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus in Carthage. Widely recognized as the founder of Western theology he was one of the oldest extant Latin […]
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