Saints
St. Maximinus of Trier
Born: at Silly near Poitiers, France Died: 12 September 349 or 29 May 352 (records vary), in autumn 353, he was buried in the church of Saint John near Trier, in the 7th century the Benedictine abbey of Saint Maximinus was founded there, which flourished till 1802 Patronage: Trier, Germany Born to the Gallic nobility. […]
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St. Augustine of Canterbury
Born: at Rome, Italy Died: 26 May 605 in Canterbury, England of natural causes, relics interred outside the church of Saints Peter and Paul, Canterbury, a building project he had started Buried: St Augustine’s Abbey, CanterburyFeast: day 26 May (Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, & Catholic Extraordinary Form calendar in Great Britain) 27 May (Catholic Ordinary Form […]
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Bl. Eva of Liege
Feast: 26 May When Blessed Juliana was prioress of Mount Cornillon, one of her closest friends was a holy recluse, Eva, or Heva, of Liege, whom she inspired with her own enthusiastic purpose to obtain the institution of a feast in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. It was in Eva’s cell near the church of […]
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St. Mary Ann de Paredes
Born: 31 October 1618 at Quito, Ecuador Died: 26 May 1645 at Quito, Ecuador Canonized: 9 July 1950 by Pope Pius XII Patronage: against bodily ills or sickness; sick people, against the loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, Americas Daughter of Don Girolamo Flores Zenel de Paredes, a nobleman of Toledo, and Doña […]
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St. Philip Neri
Born: 22 July 1515 at Florence, Italy Died: 26 May 1595 at the church of San Maria in Vallicella, Italy of natural causes Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 11 May 1615 by Pope Paul V Canonized: 12 March 1622 by Pope Gregory XV Feast: 26 May Patronage: Gravina, Italy, Rome, Italy, archdiocese of Manfredonia Vieste […]
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St. Cristobal Magallanes Jara
Born: 30 July 1869 in La Sementera, Totatiche, Jalisco, Mexico Died: shot on 25 May 1927 at Colotlán, Jalisco, Mexico Beatified: November 22, 1992 by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 21 May 2000 by Pope John Paul II during the Jubilee of Mexico Feast: 25 May Born to a farm family, and worked as a […]
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St. Maria Magdalen Dei Pazzi
Born: Caterina de’ Pazzi April 2, 1566 Florence, Duchy of Florence Died: May 25, 1607 (aged 41) Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 1626, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Urban VIII Canonized: April 28, 1669, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Clement X Major shrine: Monastery of Santa Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, […]
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St. Bede the Venerable
Born: 672 at Wearmouth, England Died: 25 May 735 of natural causes Canonized: 1899 by Pope Leo XIII Patronage: lectors Feast: 25 May Born around the time England was finally completely Christianized. Raised from age seven in the abbey of Saints Peter and Paul at Wearmouth-Jarrow, and lived there the rest of his life. Benedictine […]
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St. David I of Scotland
Born: c. 1085Died: 24 May 1153 (aged 68–69) Carlisle, burial Dunfermline Abbey Feast: May 24 David was the youngest son of King Malcolm III (Canmore) of Scotland and his wife Margaret who is herself a saint (c/f 16th Nov.) He contributed enormously to setting up civilising and religious institutions in Scotland. Although David spent most of his childhood in […]
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St. Donatian and St. Rogatian
Died: around 287 Nantes Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox ChurchFeast: 24 May There lived at Nantes an illustrious young nobleman named Donatian, who, having received the holy Sacrament of regeneration, led a most edifying life and strove with much zeal to convert others to faith in Christ. His elder brother, Rogatian, was not […]
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