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Pope St. Gregory the Great
Born: c. 540 Rome, Eastern Roman Empire Died: 12 March 604 (aged 64) Rome, Eastern Roman Empire Buried: St. Peter’s Basilica (1606) Residence Rome Feast day: 3 September (Latin Church), 12 March (Latin Church pre-1969, Eastern Churches, Anglicanism, Lutheranism) Venerated: in Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Anglicanism, Lutheranism Patronage: Musicians, singers, students, and teachers Pope Saint Gregory […]
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St. Guarinus of Sion
Born: c.1065 at Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine (in modern France) Died: 27 August 1150 in the Aulps monastery in Savoy (in modern France) of natural causes, relics hidden in 1794 to save them from the anti–Christian excesses of the French Revolution, relics enshrined in the church of the parish of Saint John of the Aulps in 1804, […]
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St. Caesarius of Arles
Born: 468 470 AD Chalon-sur-Saône, Western Roman Empire Died: 27 August 542 AD Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Feast: August 27 Brother of Saint Caesaria of Arles. Entered the monastery at Lérins at age 18, and worked as his house’s cellarer. His devotion to duty earned him the enmity of some of […]
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Novena to St. Monica
Introduction Prayer (to be said each day) Exemplary Mother of the Great Augustine, you perserveringly pursued your wayward son not with wild threats but with prayerful cries to heaven. Intercede for all mothers in our day so that they may learn to draw their children to God. Teach them how to remain close to their […]
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Prayers to St. Monica
Prayer to St. Monica for Wayward Children Exemplary Mother of the Great Augustine, you perseveringly pursued your wayward son, not with wild threats but with prayerful cries to heaven. Intercede for all mothers in our day so that they may learn to draw their children to God. Teach them how to remain close to their […]
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St. Monica
Born: 332 Thagaste, Numidia, Roman Empire (present day Souk Ahras, Algeria) Died: 387 Ostia, Italy, Roman Empire Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Anglican Communion, Oriental Orthodox Church, and Lutheranism Canonized: Pre-Congregation Major shrine: Basilica of Sant’Agostino, Rome, Italy Feast: 27 August (Roman Catholic Church, Church of England, Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod) 4 May […]
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St. Junipero Serra
Born: Miguel José Serra Ferrer November 24, 1713 Petra, Majorca, Spain Died: August 28, 1784 Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, Las Californias, New Spain, Spanish Empire (modern day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, U.S.) Beatified: September 25, 1988, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: September 23, 2015, Basilica of the National Shrine […]
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St. Edmund Arrowsmith
Born: 1585 at Haydock, Lancashire, England as Brian Arrowsmith, his confirmation name was Edmund, and he preferred to use it Died: hanged, drawn, and quartered on 28 August 1628 at Lancaster, England, his hand is preserved as a relic at Saint Oswald’s Church, Ashton-in-Makerfield, England Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI as one […]
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