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Novena to St. Simon and St. Jude
(Please recite this novena for 9 consecutive days) Glorious Saint Jude, with faith in your goodness I ask your help today. As one of Christ’s chosen Apostles, you are a pillar and foundation of His Church on earth. You are among the elders who stand always before God’s throne. Saint Jude, you are renowned for […]
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Prayers to St. Simon and St. Jude
Prayer to St. Simon and St.Jude O God , we thank Thee for the glorious company of the Apostles, and especially on this day for Simon and Jude; and we pray that, as they were faithful and zealous in their mission, so we may with ardent devotion make known the love and mercy of our […]
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St. Simon and St. Jude
Feast day: October 28 Simon was a simple Galilean, a brother of Jesus, as the ancients called one’s close relatives — aunts, uncles, first cousins; he was one of the Saviour’s four first cousins, with James the Less, Jude and Joseph, all sons of Mary, the wife of Alpheus, or Cleophas, either name being a […]
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St. Abraham Kidunaia
Born: c.296 at Edessa, Osrhoene, Mesopotamia (in modern Syria) Died: c.366 at Edessa, Osrhoene, Mesopotamia (in modern Syria) of natural causes Venerated: in Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy (Coptic Orthodox Church, Syriac Orthodox Church) Feast day: July 29, October 24, October 29, December 14 Born to a wealthy family near Edessa, Syria. Forced into […]
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Bl. Benvenuta Bojani
Born: 4 May 1254 Cividale del Friuli, Republic of Venice Died: 30 October 1292 (aged 38) Cividale del Friuli, Republic of Venice Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 6 February 1763, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Papal States by Pope Clement XIV (cultus confirmed) Feast: 30 October Youngest of seven daughters. She refused to play any childhood games […]
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St. Serapion of Antioch
Died: 211 Venerated: in Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy Canonized: Pre-congregation Feast: 30 October Serapion was a Patriarch of Antioch (191–211). He is known primarily through his theological writings, although all but a few fragments of his works have perished. His feast day is celebrated on October 30. Serapion was considered one of […]
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St. Quentin
Born: Rome, Italy Died: tortured and beheaded in 287 at Augusta Veromanduorum, Gaul (now Saint-Quentin, France), body thrown in the river, but recovered and buried by people he had helped convert, tomb known as a site for miracles• relics later re-discovered by Saint Eligius Patronage: against coughs Feast day: October 31 Son of a Roman […]
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St. Alonso Rodriguez
Born: July 25, 1532 Segovia, Spain Died: October 31, 1617 (aged 85) Palma, Majorca, Spain Venerated: in Catholic Church (Society of Jesus) Beatified: 1825 by Pope Leo XII Canonized: September 1887 by Pope Leo XIII Patronage: Jesuit College Palma, Majorca, Spain Feast: October 31 Third of eleven children in the family of the wealthy wool […]
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Bl. Margaret of Lorraine
Born: 1463 Castle of Vaudémont, Lorraine, France Died: 2 November 1521 (aged 58) Argentan, Normandy Venerated: in Roman Catholic churchBeatified: 10 March 1921, Rome by Pope Benedict XV Feast day: November 2 Youngest daughter of Duke Frederick of Lorraine (in modern France and Jolanta Anjou; niece of Margaret of Anjou. Married René, Duke of Alençon, […]
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St. Victorinus of Pettau
Born: 3rd century Greece Died: 303 or 304 AD Modern Ptuj (Pettau or Poetovio) Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church Feast day: 2 November Wrote a number of well-known and scholarly commentaries on the Old and New Testament; only scraps of the writings about Genesis and Revelations have survived. His works were greatly admired by […]
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