Saints
St. Bernadine of Siena
Born: September 8, 1380, Massa Marittima, Italy Died: May 20, 1444, L’Aquila, Italy Place of burial: Basilica of San Bernardino, L’Aquila, Italy Patronage: against hoarseness, against chest problems, against respiratory problems, lung problems, lungs, advertisers, advertising, communications personnel, gambling addicts; against compulsive gambling, public relations personnel (proclaimed on 20 May 1960 by Pope John XXIII), […]
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St. Crispin of Viterbo
Born: November 13, 1668, Viterbo, Italy Died: 19 May 1750 of pneumonia at the friary of the Immaculate Conception on the Via Veneto in Rome, Italy, entombed under a side altar in the Capuchin church at Rome, body found still incorrupt in 1959 Beatified: September 7, 1806 Canonized: 20 June 1982, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican […]
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St. Ivo of Kermartin
Born: 17 October 1253 Kermartin, Duchy of Brittany Died: 19 May 1303 (aged 49) Louannec, Duchy of Brittany Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Canonized: June 1347 by Pope Clement VI Major shrine: Tréguier, Cotes d’Armor, France Feast: 19 May Patronage: abandoned people, advocates, attorneys, barristers, lawyers, bailiffs, Brittany, canon lawyers, canonists, judges, jurists, notaries, orphans […]
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Pope St. Celestine V
Born: 1215, Sant’Angelo Limosano, Italy Died: May 19, 1296, Fumone, Italy Buried: Basilica di Santa Maria di Collemaggio, L’Aquila, Italy Papacy began: 5 July 1294 Papacy ended: 13 December 1294 Canonized: 1313 by Pope Clement V Patronage: Aquila, Italy bookbinders Feast: 19 May Eleventh of twelve children. His father died when Peter was quite young. […]
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Bl. William of Toulouse
Born: c.1297 in Toulouse, France Died: 18 May 1369 in Toulouse, France of natural causes, buried in the cemetery of the Saint Etienne monastery in Toulouse, so many miracles reported at his grave that he was re-interred in the monastery church Beatified: 1893 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmation), the only French Augustinian friar declared […]
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St. Felix of Cantalice
Born: 18 May 1515 Cantalice, Italy Died: 18 May 1587 Rome, Italy Venerated: in Franciscan Order Beatified: 1 October 1625 by Pope Urban VIII Canonized: 1712 by Pope Clement XI Feast: May 18 Patronage: Spello Born to pious peasants, he was a shepherd in his youth. At age nine he was hired out as a […]
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Pope St. John I
Born: in Populonia, Tuscany, Italy Papal Ascension: 13 August 523 Papacy ended: 18 May 526 Died: 18 May 526 of thirst and starvation in prison in Ravenna, Italy Pope John I (Latin: Ioannes I; died 18 May 526) was the bishop of Rome from 13 August 523 to his death. He was a native of Siena (or the “Castello di Serena”, near Chiusdino), in Italy. […]
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Bl. Ivan Ziatyk
Born: 26 December 1899 at Odrekhiv, in present day Poland Died: Easter Sunday, 17 May 1952 from injuries received in a beating three days earlier at Ozerlah, Irkhutsk, Russia, buried at Ozerlah Beatified: 27 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II in Ukraine Greek Catholic. Graduated high school in 1919, and obtained a degree in […]
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St. Giulia Salzano
Born: 13 October 1846 Santa Maria Capua Vetere, Province of Caserta, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Died: 17 May 1929 (aged 82) Casoria, Naples, Kingdom of Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 27 April 2003, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 17 October 2010, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City […]
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St. Paschal Baylon
Born: 24 May 1540 (feast of Pentecost) at Torre Hermosa, Aragon, (modern Spain) Died: 15 May 1592 (feast of Pentecost) at Villa Reale, Spain of natural causes Canonized: 16 October 1690 by Pope Alexander VIII Patronage: cooks, shepherds, Eucharistic congresses and organizations (proclaimed by Pope Leo XIII on 28 November 1897), diocese of Segorbe-Castellón de […]
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