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Bl. Francisca de Paula de Jesus Isabel
Born: 1810 in São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil Died: 14 June 1895 in Baependi, Minas Gerais, Brazil of natural causes, entombed in the church she helped build. The smell of perfume reported at her tomb at the time of burial and again when it was opened in 1998Beatified: 4 May 2013 by Pope Francis, beatification […]
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St. Methodius I
Born: 8th century at Syracuse, Sicily Died: 847 of natural causes Venerated: in Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church Feast: June 14 Educated in Syracuse, Sicily. While in Constantinople to seek a position at court, he felt the call to enter the religious life. Built a monastery and started a monastic community on the island of Chinos. Soon […]
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St. Tryphillius of Leucosia
Born: Rome, Italy Died: 370 of natural causesVenerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Feast: 13 June (Western calendar) Educated in Constantinople. Worked as a lawyer. Convert to Christianity. Spritiual student of Saint Spyridon of Cyprus. Bishop of Leucosia (modern Nicosia), Cyprus. Supported Saint Athanasius of Alexandria in his opposition to Arianism; Saint Athanasius […]
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Bl. Marianna Biernacka
Born: 1888 in Lipsk, Podlaskie, Poland as Marianna Czokala Died: shot by firing squad on 13 June 1943 in Naumovichi (a.k.a. Naumowicze), Hrodzyenskaya voblasts’, Belarus Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II Feast Day: 13 June Lifelong lay woman in the diocese of Lomza, Poland. She had little education; she may have been […]
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Novena to St. Anthony of Padua
(Please recite this novena for 9 consecutive days) O wonderful St. Anthony, glorious on account of the fame of your miracles, and through the condescension of Jesus in coming in the form of a little child to rest in your arms, obtain for me of His bounty the grace which I ardently desire from the […]
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Prayers to St. Anthony of Padua
The miracle prayer to St. Anthony of Padua O Holy St Anthony, the gentlest and kindest of Saints, your burning love of God, your exalted virtue, and your great charity towards your fellow creatures, made you worthy, when on earth to possess miraculous powers such as were given to no other saint. Miracle waited on […]
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St. Anthony of Padua
Born: 15 August 1195 Lisbon, Portugal Died: 13 June 1231 of natural causes, buried on the Tuesday following his death in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Padua, Italy, legend says that all the sick who visited his new grave were healed Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 30 May 1232 Canonized: 30 May 1232, Spoleto, […]
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