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St. Mary Ann de Paredes
Born: 31 October 1618 at Quito, Ecuador Died: 26 May 1645 at Quito, Ecuador Canonized: 9 July 1950 by Pope Pius XII Patronage: against bodily ills or sickness; sick people, against the loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, Americas Daughter of Don Girolamo Flores Zenel de Paredes, a nobleman of Toledo, and Doña […]
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St. Philip Neri
Born: 22 July 1515 at Florence, Italy Died: 26 May 1595 at the church of San Maria in Vallicella, Italy of natural causes Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 11 May 1615 by Pope Paul V Canonized: 12 March 1622 by Pope Gregory XV Feast: 26 May Patronage: Gravina, Italy, Rome, Italy, archdiocese of Manfredonia Vieste […]
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St. Cristobal Magallanes Jara
Born: 30 July 1869 in La Sementera, Totatiche, Jalisco, Mexico Died: shot on 25 May 1927 at Colotlán, Jalisco, Mexico Beatified: November 22, 1992 by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 21 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee of Mexico Feast: 25 May Born to a farm family, and worked as a […]
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St. Maria Magdalen Dei Pazzi
Born: Caterina de’ Pazzi April 2, 1566 Florence, Duchy of Florence Died: May 25, 1607 (aged 41) Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 1626, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Urban VIII Canonized: April 28, 1669, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Clement X Major shrine: Monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, […]
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St. Bede the Venerable
Born: 672 at Wearmouth, England Died: 25 May 735 of natural causes Canonized: 1899 by Pope Leo XIII Patronage: lectors Feast: 25 May Born around the time England was finally completely Christianized. Raised from age seven in the abbey of Saints Peter and Paul at Wearmouth-Jarrow, and lived there the rest of his life. Benedictine […]
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St. David I of Scotland
Born: c. 1085Died: 24 May 1153 (aged 68–69) Carlisle, burial Dunfermline Abbey Feast: May 24 David was the youngest son of King Malcolm III (Canmore) of Scotland and his wife Margaret who is herself a saint (c/f 16th Nov.) He contributed enormously to setting up civilising and religious institutions in Scotland. Although David spent most of his childhood in […]
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St. Donatian and St. Rogatian
Died: around 287 Nantes Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox ChurchFeast: 24 May There lived at Nantes an illustrious young nobleman named Donatian, who, having received the holy Sacrament of regeneration, led a most edifying life and strove with much zeal to convert others to faith in Christ. His elder brother, Rogatian, was not […]
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