Saints
Bl. Francisca de Paula de Jesus Isabel
Born: 1810 in São João del Rei, Minas Gerais, Brazil Died: 14 June 1895 in Baependi, Minas Gerais, Brazil of natural causes, entombed in the church she helped build. The smell of perfume reported at her tomb at the time of burial and again when it was opened in 1998Beatified: 4 May 2013 by Pope Francis, beatification […]
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St. Methodius I
Born: 8th century at Syracuse, Sicily Died: 847 of natural causes Venerated: in Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church Feast: June 14 Educated in Syracuse, Sicily. While in Constantinople to seek a position at court, he felt the call to enter the religious life. Built a monastery and started a monastic community on the island of Chinos. Soon […]
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St. Tryphillius of Leucosia
Born: Rome, Italy Died: 370 of natural causesVenerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Feast: 13 June (Western calendar) Educated in Constantinople. Worked as a lawyer. Convert to Christianity. Spritiual student of Saint Spyridon of Cyprus. Bishop of Leucosia (modern Nicosia), Cyprus. Supported Saint Athanasius of Alexandria in his opposition to Arianism; Saint Athanasius […]
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Bl. Marianna Biernacka
Born: 1888 in Lipsk, Podlaskie, Poland as Marianna Czokala Died: shot by firing squad on 13 June 1943 in Naumovichi (a.k.a. Naumowicze), Hrodzyenskaya voblasts’, Belarus Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II Feast Day: 13 June Lifelong lay woman in the diocese of Lomza, Poland. She had little education; she may have been […]
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St. Anthony of Padua
Born: 15 August 1195 Lisbon, Portugal Died: 13 June 1231 of natural causes, buried on the Tuesday following his death in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Padua, Italy, legend says that all the sick who visited his new grave were healed Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 30 May 1232 Canonized: 30 May 1232, Spoleto, […]
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St. Pothinus, Sanctus, Attalus, Blandina
After a miraculous victory obtained by the prayers of a Christian legion under Marcus Aurelius in 174, the Church was enjoying a kind of peace, which was nonetheless often disturbed in various places by popular commotions, or by the superstitious fury of pagan governors. These factors become evident in the persecution which was raised at […]
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St. Marcellinus and St. Peter
Died: 304 AD Rome Venerated: in Catholic Church Major: shrine Church of Santi Marcellino e Pietro, Rome; Seligenstadt, Germany; relics also claimed by cathedral of Cremona Feast: 2 June Marcellinus and Peter were prominent enough in the memory of the Church to be included among the saints of the Roman Canon. Mention of their names […]
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St. Crescentinus
Died: beheaded on 1 June 303 at Saldo, Italy, relics translated to Urbino, Italy in 1068 by Blessed Mainard of Urbino Patronage: against headache (a ceremony in Urbino cures headaches by tapping the sufferer’s head with the relics of Crescentinus), Città di Castello, Italy, Urbino, Italy Major shrine: Urbino Feast: June 1 Imperial Roman soldier. […]
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Bl. Richard Thirkeld
Born: at Coniscliffe, Durham, England Died: hanged, drawn, and quartered on 29 May 1583 at York, England Beatified: 29 December 1886 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation) Educated at Queen’s College, Oxford, 1564 – 1565. Studied at Douai and Rheims, France. Ordained on 18 April 1579 at an age somewhat older than his confreres. Returned […]
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St. Ursula Ledochowska
Born: 17 April 1865 Loosdorf, Melk, Lower Austria, Austrian Empire Died: 29 May 1939 (aged 74) Rome, Kingdom of Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 20 June 1983, Poznań, Poland by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 18 May 2003, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Feast: 29 May Patronage: Sieradz […]
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