Saints
St. Anthony Mary Gianelli
Born: 12 April 1789 Cereta, Mantua, Duchy of Milan Died: 7 June 1846 (aged 57) Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna, Duchy of Parma Feast day: 7th June Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 19 April 1925 Saint Peter’s Basilica, Kingdom of Italy by Pope Pius XI Canonized: 21 October 1951 Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope Pius […]
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St. Robert of Newminster
Born: c. 1100 Gargrave, North Yorkshire, England Died: 7 June 1159 Newminster Abbey, Morpeth, Northumberland, England Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Feast: 7 June Robert of Newminster (1100–1159) was a priest, abbot, and a saint of the Catholic Church. He was born in Gargrave in Yorkshire, England. He was one of the monks who founded […]
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St. Bertrand of Aquileia
Born: c.1260 at Saint Geniès, Quercy, Aquitaine, France Died: 6 June 1350 at San Giogio Richionvelda, buried in Udine, Italy, relics enshrined in the Udine cathedral choir Beatified: 1760 by Pope Clement XIII (cultus confirmation) Studied civil and canon law at the University of Toulouse. Priest. Dean of the cathedral chapter of Angouleme, France in […]
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Bl. Józef Wojciech Guz
Born: 8 March 1890 in Lwów, Poland (modern L’viv, L’vivs’ka oblast’, Ukraine) Died: from trauma resulting from having a charged fire hose stuffed down his throat on 6 June 1940 in the prison camp at Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg, Oberhavel, Germany Beatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II at Warsaw, Poland Jozef Wojciech Guz was born […]
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St. Rafael Guízar y Valencia
Born: 26 April 1878 Cotija, Michoacán, Mexico Died: 6 June 1938 (aged 60) Mexico City, Mexico Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 29 January 1995, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 15 October 2006, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI Major shrine: Xalapa Cathedral, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico […]
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St. Norbert of Xanten
Born: c. 1075 Genneperhuis, diocese of Cologne, Holy Roman Empire Died: 6 June 1134 Magdeburg, Archbishopric of Magdeburg (now Saxony-Anhalt, Germany) Venerated: in Catholic Church Canonized: 1582, Rome by Pope Gregory XIII Feast: 6 June Patronage: invoked during childbirth for safe delivery; Magdeburg Saint Norbert of Xanten (c. 1075 – 6 June 1134) (Xanten-Magdeburg), also […]
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Bl. Malgorzata Szewczyk
Born: 1828 Szepetówka, Khmelnytskyi, Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria (modern Ukraine) Died: 5 June 1905 Nieszawa, Aleksandrów, Congress Poland Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 9 June 2013, Sanktuarium Bożego Miłosierdzia, Kraków, Poland by Cardinal Angelo Amato Feast: 5 June Patronage: Seraphic Sisters Blessed Małgorzata Szewczyk (1828 – 5 June 1905) – in religious Łucja […]
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St. Illidius of Clermont
Died: 385 Clermont-Ferrand Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Major shrine: Abbaye Saint Allyre, near Clermont Feast: July 7; June 5 (locally at Clermont-Ferrand) Patronage: Clermont-Ferrand Saint Illidius (French: Saint Allyre, Alyre; died 385) was a 4th-century bishop of Clermont, France. To Illidius is attributed the rise of Clermont-Ferrand as a center of religious teaching and […]
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St. Boniface
Born: c. 675 Crediton, Devon Died: 5 June 754 (aged c. 79) near Dokkum, Frisia Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Lutheran Church Anglican Communion Eastern Orthodox Church Major shrine: Fulda Cathedral, St Boniface Catholic Church, Crediton, UK Feast: 5 June Patronage: Fulda; Germania; England (Orthodox Church; jointly with Ss. Augustine of Canterbury, and Cuthbert of […]
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St. Filippo Smaldone
Born: 27 July 1848 Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Died: 4 June 1923 (aged 74) Lecce, Kingdom of Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 12 May 1996, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by John Paul II Canonized: 15 October 2006, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI Feast: 4 June Patronage: […]
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