Saints
Bl. Hanna Helena Chrzanowska
Born: 7 October 1902 Warsaw, Congress Poland, Russian Empire Died: 29 April 1973 in Kraków, Poland of cancer Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 28 April 2018, Divine Mercy Sanctuary, Kraków, Poland by Cardinal Angelo Amato Feast: 29 April Patronage: Nurses Blessed Hanna Helena Chrzanowska (7 October 1902 – 29 April 1973) was a Polish Roman Catholic who served […]
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St. Peter of Verona
Born: 1205 Verona, Italy Died: April 6, 1252 on the road from Como to Milan, Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Canonized: March 9, 1253, Perugia, Italy by Pope Innocent IV Feast: April 6, April 29 (General Roman Calendar, 1586–1969), June 4 (Dominican particular calendar)Patronage: Guaynabo, Puerto Rico; Inquisitors; midwives Also called Peter of Verona, […]
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St. Catherine of Siena
Born: 25 March 1347 at Siena, Tuscany, Italy Died: 29 April 1380 in Rome, Italy of a mysterious and painful illness that came on without notice, and was never properly diagnosed, buried in the Dominican church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome, first funerary monument erected in 1380 by Blessed Raymond of Capua, relics […]
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St. Cyril of Turov
Born: 1130 Died: 1182 of natural causes Venerated: in Eastern Orthodox church, Roman Catholic Church Feast: 28 April Born wealthy. Fluent in Greek and Russian, he read heavily in all sacred works, and was later known as a Bible scholar. When he was grown, he renounced his inheritance, and became a monk in the Turov Borisoglebsk […]
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St. Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort
Born: 31 January 1673 at Montfort-La-Cane, Brittany, France Died: 28 April 1716 at Saint-Laurent-sur-Sovre, France of natural causes Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 1888 by Pope Leo XIII Canonized: 20 July 1947 by Pope Pius XII Patronage: preachers, Brothers of Saint Gabriel, Company of Mary, Daughters of Divine Wisdom Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (31 January […]
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St. Peter Chanel
Born: 12 July 1803 at Cuet, Ain, France as Peter Louis Mary Chanel Died: beaten to death with clubs on 28 April 1841 at Poi, Uvea, Fortuna Island, New Hebrides, body hacked to pieces with hatchets and buried, remains recovered and taken back to France in 1842, relics returned to Fortuna Island in 1977 Venerated: […]
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Bl. Hosanna of Cattaro
Born: 25 November 1493 at Kumano, Montenegro as Catherine Cosie Died: 27 April 1565 in Kotor, Montenegro of natural causes, interred in the Church of Saint Paul, Kotor, Montenegro, remains moved to the Church of Saint Mary in Kotor, Montenegro in 1807 after the French army turned the Church of Saint Paul into a warehouse […]
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St. Tertullian
Born: 160, in Carthage, Tunisia Nationality: Tunisian Died: at the Age of 65, on 225 Tertullian, the prominent early apologist who produced the world’s first extensive corpus of Latin Christian literature was born as Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus in Carthage. Widely recognized as the founder of Western theology he was one of the oldest extant Latin […]
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St. Zita of Lucca
Born: 1218 at Bozzanello, Monte Sagrate, Tuscany, Italy Died: 27 April 1272 at Lucca, Italy of natural causes, buried in the church of San Frediano in Lucca• her tomb was re-discovered in 1580 Beatified: 1652 by Pope Innocent X, during the recognition proceedings, her remains were found to be incorrupt Canonized: the office in her […]
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St. Paschasius Radbertus
Born: c.790 at Soissons, France Died: c.860 of natural causes, buried in the church of Saint John at Corbie Abbey, relics re-interred at Saint Peter’s church at Corbie on 12 July 1073 Feast: 26 April Benedictine theologian and abbot. Paschasius was left as an infant upon the door of Notre Dame convent in Soissons, France, […]
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