Saints
Pope St. Leo III
Born: at Rome, Italy Papal Ascension, 26 December 795 Died: 12 June 816, relics at Saint Peter’s, Rome, Italy Canonized: 1673 by Pope Clement X The son of Atyuppius and Elizabeth. Priest. Cardinal. Papal treasurer. Elected pope the day after his predecessor’s burial, probably so there would not be any outside interference with the decision […]
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St. John of Sahagun
Born: c. 1419 Sahagún, Province of Leon, Crown of Castile Died: 11 June 1479 (aged 48) Salamanca, Province of Salamanca, Crown of Castile Venerated: in Catholic Church (Order of St. Augustine and Diocese of Salamanca) Beatified: 1601, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Clement VIII Canonized: 16 October 1690, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Alexander VIII […]
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St. Henry Morse
Born: 1549 at Brome, Suffolk, England Died: hanged, drawn, and quartered on 1 February 1645 at Tyburn, London, England Venerated: 8 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI (decree of martyrdom) Beatified: 15 December 1929 by Pope Pius XI Canonized: 25 October 1970 by Pope Paul VI Major shrine: St. Henry Morse RC Church, Diss Feast: 1 […]
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Bl. Anna Michelotti
Born: 29 August 1843 in Annecy, Haute-Savoie, kingdom of Sardinia (part of modern France) Died: 1 February 1888 in Turin, Italy of natural causes, relics enshrined at the Little Servants mother house in Valsalice, Turin Beatified: 1 November 1975 by Pope Paul VI Feast day: 1 February Anna was born in High Savoy (then territory […]
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St. Brigid of Ireland
Born: 453 at Faughart, County Louth, Ireland Died: 1 February 523 at Kildare, Ireland of natural causes, interred in the Kildare cathedral, relics transferred to Downpatrick, Ireland in 878 where they were interred with those of Saint Patrick and Saint Columba of Iona, relics re-discovered on 9 June 1185, head removed to Jesuit church in […]
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St. Francesco Saverio Maria Bianchi
Born: December 2, 1743 Arpino, Lazio, Papal States Died: January 31, 1815 (aged 71) Naples, Kingdom of Naples Venerated: in Roman Catholicism (Barnabite Order and the Archdiocese of Naples) Beatified: February 22, 1893, Rome, Kingdom of Italy by Pope Leo XIII Canonized: October 21, 1951, Rome, Italy, by Pope Pius XII Major shrine: Church of […]
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Bl. Maria Cristina di Savoia
Born: 14 November 1812 in Cagliari, Italy as Maria Cristina Carlotta Giuseppina Gaetana Elisa Died: 31 January 1836 in Naples, Italy of complications from childbirth Beatified: 25 January 2014 by Pope Francis, recognition celebrated at the Basilica of Santa Chiara, Naples, Italy, presided by Cardinal Angelo AmatoVenerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 25 January 2014, Naples, […]
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St. John Bosco
Born: 16 August 1815 Castelnuovo d’Asti, Piedmont, Kingdom of Sardinia Died: 31 January 1888 (aged 72) Turin, Kingdom of Italy Venerated: in Catholic Church, Anglican Community Beatified: 2 June 1929, Rome by Pius XI Canonized: 1 April 1934, Rome by Pius XI Major shrine Basilica of Our Lady Help of Christians, Turin, Italy Feast: 31 […]
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St. Tôma Khuông
Born: 1789 in Nam Hòa, Hung Yên, Tonquín (modern Vietnam) Died: beheaded with an ax on 30 January 1860 in prison in Hung Yên, Vietnam while kneeling before a cross he had been ordered to stomp on Venerated: 11 February 1951 by Pope Pius XII (decree of martyrdom) Beatified: 29 April 1951 by Pope Pius […]
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St. David Galván-Bermúdez
Born: 29 January 1881 Guadalajara, Mexico Died: shot by firing squad on 30 January 1915 at Guadalajara, MexicoBeatified: 22 November 1992, St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 21 May 2000, St. Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Feast: 30 January Entered the seminary in Guadalajara, Mexico at […]
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