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St. Sabbas of Mar Saba
Born: 439 at Motalala, Cappadocia Died: 532 of natural causes, relics enshrined in Venice, Italy Spiritual student of Saint Euthymius the Great at age 20. Anchorite from age 30, living in a cave, devoting himself to prayer and manual labor. He wove ten willow baskets each day. On Saturday he would take them to the […]
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St. Osmund
Born: Seez, Normandy Died: 3 or 4 December 1099 Salisbury Sainthood Feast day: 16 July, 4 December Venerated: in Catholic Church Canonized: 1 January 1457 by Pope Callixtus III Patronage: insanity; mental illness; mentally ill people; paralysed people; paralysis; ruptures; toothache St. Osmund (died 3 December 1099), Count of Sées, was a Norman noble and clergyman. […]
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St. John Damascene
Born: c. 675 or 676 Damascus, Bilad al-Sham, Umayyad Caliphate Died: 4 December 749 Mar Saba, Jerusalem, Bilad al-Sham, Umayyad Caliphate Canonized: Pre-congregation by Eastern Orthodox Church Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church Roman Catholic Church Anglican Communion Commemorated in Lutheranism Feast: December 4 March 27 (General Roman Calendar 1890–1969) Saint John of […]
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St. Barbara
Born: mid third century Died: late third century to early fourth century (executed by her father) Variously given Venerated: in Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodoxy Aglipayan Church Anglicanism Feast: 4 December (Catholic Church) and (Eastern Orthodox Church) 8 Koiak (Coptic Orthodox Church) Saint Barbara known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great […]
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