Archive for November, 2020
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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Bl. Maria del Carmen of the Child Jesus
Born: 30 June 1834 in Antequera, Málaga, Spain as María del Carmen González-Ramos García-Prieto Died: 9 November 1899 in Antequera, Málaga, Spain of typhus, buried at Our Lady of Victory church at the mother house of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Antequera Beatified: 6 May 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI, beatification recognition […]
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Daily Reflection 09.11.2020
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Bl. Maria Crucified Satellico
Born: 31 December 1706 at Venice, Italy as Elisabetta Maria Satellico Died: 8 November 1745 of natural causes, buried at the Church of Saint Lucy in Ostra Vetere, Italy Beatified: 10 October 1993 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: November 8 Daughter of Piero Satellico and Lucia Mander, she grew up in the home […]
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St. Peter Ou
Born: 1768 at Longping in Guizhou Province, China Died: strangled to death on 7 November 1814 at Tsen-y-Fou, Su-Tchuen province, China Beatified: 27 May 1900 by Pope Leo XIII Canonized: 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: November 7 Born to a non-Christian family. Known from his youth for his sense of […]
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Daily Reflection 07.11.2020
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St. Philip Howard
Born: 28 June 1557 at Norfolk, England Died: 19 October 1595 of malnutrition in the Tower of London, London, England, buried in the graveyard of the Tower church near his father and grandfather, re-interred in Long Horsley in 1624, re-interred in the Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel, relics re-interred in the Arundel cathedral in 1971 Canonized: 25 October […]
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Bl. Jerzy Popieluszko
Born: 14 September 1947 Okopy, near Suchowola, Polish People’s Republic Died: kidnapped on 19 October 1984 by the Sluzba Bezpieczenstwa (Security Service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs), the Communist Polish secret police, beaten to death from 19 to 20 October 1984 near Wloclawek, Pomorskie, Poland, body dumped in the Vistula Water Reservoir where it […]
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St. Artemius
Died: beheaded in 363 in Antioch, buried by local Christians in Antioch, relics later transferred to Constantinople Feast day: October 20 Noted soldier and military leader under Emperor Constantine the Great. Imperial prefect (viceroy) of Egypt and Duke of Alexandria, appointed by Emperor Constantius; he used his position to spread the faith. During the reign […]
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