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St. Gregory Nazianzen the Elder
Born: c.276 at Nazianzos, Cappadocia, Asia Minor Died: 374 of natural causes Gregory spent the first 50 years of his life as a pagan, and worked as a government official most of his adult life. Married to Saint Nonna, who converted him to Christianity in 325. Father of Saint Gregory Nazianzen, Saint Caesarius of Nazianzen, […]
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Bl. Giuseppina Nicoli
Born: 18 November 1863 in Casatisma, Pavia, Italy Died: 9am on 31 December 1924 in Cagliari, Italy of bronchial pneumonia, her birth family wanted to bury her next to her parents in Casatisma, Italy, but the people of Cagliari begged that she not leave them, and the family agreed, in October 1932 her body was […]
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St. Gaspare Bertoni
Born: 9 October 1777 Verona, Republic of Venice Died: 12 June 1853 (aged 75) Verona, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 1 November 1975, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope Paul VI Canonized: 1 November 1989, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Feast: 12 JunePatronage: Stigmatines GASPAR […]
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St. Gerard of Brogne
Born: 895 at Staves, Namur, Belgium Died: 3 October 959 at Brogne, Belgium of natural causes Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Major shrine: Saint-Gérard, Namur Feast day: October 3 Patronage: Saint-Gérard, Namur Born to the Belgian nobility; son of Stance and Plectrude. Raised in a military atmosphere. Courtier to the Count of Namur. Disappointed by court life, […]
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St. Gabriel the Archangel
Feastday: September 29Patronage: Telecommunication Workers, Radio Broadcasters, Messengers, Postal Workers, Clerics, Diplomats, Stamp Collectors, Portugal, Santander, Cebu, ambassadors The day before the great feast of the Annunciation, the Church celebrates the feast of the Archangel who brought to earth the glad tidings that Mary was chosen to be the Mother of the Incarnate God. This […]
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St. Gerard Sagredo
Born: 23 April 980 in Venice, Italy Died: stabbed to death with a lance on 24 September 1046 at Buda, Hungary, body thrown into the Danube River, surviving relics enshrined in the Basilica of San Donato in Murano, Venice, Italy Canonized: 1083 by Pope Saint Gregory VII Patronage: Hungary Benedictine monk. Abbot at San Giorgio […]
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St. Giovanni Battista Rossi
Born: 22 February 1698 at Voltaggio, diocese of Genoa, Italy Died: 23 May 1764 at Trinita dei Pellegrini, Italy of multiple strokes, relics initially at Saints Trinita church, relics translated to Saint John Baptist Rossi parish church in Rome, Italy in 1965 Beatified: 13 May 1860 by Blessed Pope Pius IX Canonized: 8 December 1881 by […]
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St. Giulia Salzano
Born: 13 October 1846 Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Province of Caserta, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Died: 17 May 1929 (aged 82) Casoria, Naples, Kingdom of Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 27 April 2003, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 17 October 2010, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City […]
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Bl. Gemma of Goriano
Born: c.1375 in San Sebastiano dei Marsi, Bisegna, Abruzzo, Italy Died: 13 May 1439 in Goriano Sicoli, Italy of natural causes, miracles reported at her grave, body found incorrupt when exhumed, re-interred under the high altar of the church of San Giovanni in Goriano Sicoli, re-interred in a new church dedicated to her in 1613, […]
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St. Giovanni Battista Piamarta
Born: 26 November 1841 in Brescia, Italy Died: 25 April 1913 in Remedello, Brescia, Italy of natural causes, interred in the Workman’s Institute church in Remedello Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 12 October 1997, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 21 October 2012, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by […]
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