Saints
St. Jacques Honoré Chastán
Born: 7 October 1803 in Marcoux, Basses-Alpes, France Died: beaten with a bastinado and beheaded on 21 September 1839 at Saenamteo, Seoul, South Korea Canonized: 6 May 1984 by Pope John Paul II in Korea Feast day: September 21 Ordained in 1826. Joined the Paris Society of Missions in 1827. Missionary in Thailand, then Malaysia, and […]
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St. François Jaccard
Born: 16 September 1799 at Onion, Haute-Savoie, France Died: strangled to death on 21 September 1838 in Nhan Bieu, Quang Tri, Tonkin, Indo-China (modern Vietnam), buried near Tonkin by local Christians, later moved to the Seminary for Foreign Missions, Paris, France Venerated: 2 July 1899 by Pope Leo XIII (decree of martyrdom) Beatified: 27 May 1900 […]
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St. Matthew the Apostle
Patronage: accountants; bookkeepers, bankers, customs officers, financial officers; money managers, guards; security forces; security guards, stock brokers, tax collectors, diocese of Trier, Germany, archdiocese of Washington, DC, 5 cities Feast day: September 21 One day, as Our Lord was walking by the Sea of Galilee, He saw, seated in his customs bureau, Levi the publican, […]
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Bl. Cecilia Eusepi
Born: 17 February 1910 in Monte Romano, Viterbo, Italy Died: 1 October 1928 in Nepi, Viterbo, Italy of tuberculosis, she predicted the date of her death following a dream about Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, she died singing a hymn to the Blessed Virgin Mary, re-interred at the church of San Tolomeo ai Servi, Nepi on […]
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Bl. Luigi Maria Monti
Born: 24 July 1825 at Bovisio Masciago, diocese of Milian, Italy Died: 1 October 1900 in Saronno, Varese, Italy of natural causes Beatified: 9 November 2003 by Pope John Paul II, his beatification miracle involved the healing of Giovanni Luigi Iecle, a farmer from Bosa, Sardegna in 1961 Feast day: October 1 Eighth of eleven […]
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St. Jerome
Born: 2 January 1873 at Alcon, Normandy, France as Francoise-Marie Therese Martin Canonized: 17 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI Died: 7pm Thursday 30 September 1897 at Lisieux, France of tuberculosis Patronage: African missions, sick people; against bodily ills, illness or sickness, AIDS patients, air crews or pilots; aviators, Australia, black missions, florists and flower […]
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St. Leger
Birth: 615 Death: 679 Feast day: October 2 Leger was raised at the court of King Clotaire II and by his uncle, Bishop Didon of Poitiers. Leger was made archdeacon by Didon, was ordained, and in about 651, became abbot of Maxentius Abbey, where he introduced the Rule of St. Benedict. He served Queen Regent […]
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St. Thomas of Hereford
Death: 1282 Feast day: October 2 Bishop of Hereford, also called Thomas Cantilupe. Born at Buckinghamshire, England, circa 1218, he studied at Oxford, Paris, and Orleans. Returning to England, he became chancellor of Oxford University in 1261, using his influence to aid the barons in their struggle against King Henry III (r. 1216-1272). In 1265, […]
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St. Mother Theodore Guerin
Born: 2 October 1798 at Etables-sur-Mer, Brittany, France as Anne-Thérèse Guérin Died: 14 May 1856 at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, USA, of natural causes, buried at Church of the Immaculate Conception, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods Canonized: 15 October 2006 by Pope Benedict XVI Patronage: Lafayette, Indiana Feast day: October 3 Daughter of Laurent and Isabelle Guérin. Joined the […]
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Bl. Szilárd István Bogdánffy
Born: 21 February 1911 in Crna Bara, Coka, Hungary (in modern Serbia) Died: 3 October 1953 in Nagyenyed (Aiud), Alba, Romania of pneumonia Beatified: 30 October 2010 by Pope Benedict XVI, beatification recognition presided over by Cardinal Peter Erdo, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary Feast day: October 3 Son of teachers. Studied philosophy and theology at Peter […]
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