Archive for June 23, 2019
Prayers to St. Joseph Cafasso
Prayer to St. Joseph Cafasso St. Joseph Cafasso, you were born with a spinal abnormality that afflicted your health and made you short of stature. Despite this deformity, you fasted and lived minimally. Always devout as a child, you discerned the priesthood in adolescence and were ordained in Turin. You were a member of the […]
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St. Joseph Cafasso
Born: 15 January 1811 Castelnuovo d’Asti, Asti, Kingdom of Sardinia Died: 23 June 1860 (aged 49) Turin, Kingdom of Sardinia Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 3 May 1925, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Kingdom of Italy by Pope Pius XI Canonized: 22 June 1947, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope Pius XII Major shrine: Santuario […]
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St. Thomas Garnet
Born: 1574 Southwark, England Died: Hanged, drawn, and quartered on 23 June 1608 at Tyburn, London, England Beatified: 1929 Canonized: 1970 by Pope Paul VI Feast: 1 December 25 October with Forty Martyrs of England and Wales Son of Richard Garnet, an Oxford don. Nephew of Henry Garnet, superior of all Jesuits in England, and […]
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St. Mary of Oignies
Born: 1177 Nivelles, Belgium Died: June 23, 1213 Oignies, France Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Major shrine: church of Saint Nicholas at Nivelles, Belgium Feast: June 23 Patronage: against fever, women in labour Marie of Oignies (Maria Ogniacensis, born Nivelles, now Belgium, 1177, died 1213) was a Beguine saint, known from the Life written by […]
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St. Etheldreda of Ely
Born: c.636 at Ely in 1106; found incorrupt Died: 23 June 679 of natural causes• body re-interred in 694; found incorrupt body re-interred in the Cathedral Patronage: neck ailments, throat ailments, widows, University of Cambridge Sister of Saint Jurmin. Relative of King Anna of East Anglia, England. Princess. Widowed after three years marriage; rumor had […]
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