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Bl. Salvi Huix Miralpeix

Bl. Salvi Huix Miralpeix

Born: 22 December 1877 in Santa Margarida de Vallors, Girona, Spain Died: shot in the head on the morning of 5 August 1936 in a cemetery in Lleida, Spain Beatified: 13 October 2013 by Pope Francis Born to a pious and fairly wealthy family. Known for his hard work as a student and seminarian, and […]

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St. Oswald of Northumbria

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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