Saints
St. Petroc
Born: Wales Died: c. 564 Treravel, Padstow, Cornwall, England Venerated: in Catholic Church Anglican Communion Western Orthodoxy Canonized: Pre-Congregation Major shrine: St Petroc’s Church, Bodmin, Cornwall, England Feast: 4 June Patronage: Devon Cornwall Saint Petroc or Petrock (Medieval Latin: Petrocus; Welsh: Pedrog; French: Perreux; died c. 564) was a British prince and Christian saint. Probably born […]
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St. Francis Caracciolo
Born: October 13, 1563 Villa Santa Maria, Province of Chieti, Region of Abruzzo, Kingdom of Naples (modern-day Italy) Died: June 4, 1608 (aged 44) Agnone, Province of Isernia, Region of Molise, Kingdom of Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: June 4, 1769, Rome by Pope Clement XIV Canonized: May 24, 1807, Rome by Pope […]
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Bl. Otto Neururer
Birth name: Otto Neururer Born: 25 March 1882 Piller, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary Died: 30 May 1940 (aged 58) Buchenwald, Gau Thuringia, Germany Feast day: 30 May Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 24 November 1996 Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Patronage: Preachers, Marriage Blessed Otto Neururer (25 March 1882 – 30 […]
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St. Ferdinand III of Castile
Born: 1199/1201 Monastery of Valparaíso, Peleas de Arriba, Kingdom of Leon Died: 30 May 1252 Seville, Crown of Castile Beatified: 31 May 1655 by Pope Alexander VII Canonized: 1671 by Pope Clement X Patronage: Authorities, governors, rulers, engineers, large families, magistrates, parenthood, paupers, poor people, prisoners, Spanish monarchy, tertiaries, Seville, Spain,Ilagan, Philippines, diocese of Lucena, […]
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St. Joan of Arc
Born: Jeanne d’Arc c. 1412 Domrémy, Duchy of Bar, Kingdom of France Died: 30 May 1431 (aged approx. 19) Rouen, Normandy (then under English rule) Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Anglican Communion Beatified: 18 April 1909, Notre-Dame de Paris, by Pope Pius X Canonized: 16 May 1920, St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome by Pope Benedict XV Feast: […]
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Bl. James Salomone
Born: 1231 at Venice, Italy Died: 31 March 1314 of cancer at Forli, Italy Beatified: 1526 by Pope Clement VII Patronage: against cancer, cancer patients Born to the nobility, and an only child. His father died when James was very small, his mother left the family to become a Cistercian nun, and James was raised […]
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St. Camilla Battista Varano
Born: 9 April 1458 Camerino, Macerata, Italy Died: 31 May 1524 (aged 66) Camerino, Macerata, Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Franciscan Order Beatified: 7 April 1843 by Pope Gregory XVI Canonized: 17 October 2010, Vatican City by Pope Benedict XVI Major shrine: Monastery of Saint Clare Camerino, Macerata, Italy Feast: 31 May Camilla Battista […]
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St. Kevin of Glendalough
Born: 498 (reputedly) Ireland Died: 3 June 618 Venerated: in Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church (cultus confirmation) Canonized: 1903 (cultus confirmed) Feast: 3 June Patronage: blackbirds, Archdiocese of Dublin, Glendalough, Kilnamanagh Saint Kevin (modern Irish Caoimhín; Old Irish Cóemgen, Caemgen; latinized Coemgenus; 498 (reputedly)–3 June 618) is an Irish saint, known as the founder […]
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St. Charles Lwanga and Companions
St. Charles and many other martyrs for the faith died between November 15, 1885 – January 27, 1887 in Namugongo, Uganda. St. Charles and his companions were beatified in 1920 and canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1964. In 1879 Catholicism began spreading in Uganda when the White Fathers, a congregation of priests founded by Cardinal […]
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Bl. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
Birth name: Giovanni Battista Scalabrini Born: 8 July 1839 Fino Mornasco, Como, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia Died: 1 June 1905 (aged 65) Piacenza, Kingdom of Italy Parents: Luigi Scalabrini, Colomba Trombetta Feast day: 1 June Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 9 November 1997 Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Patronage: Diocese […]
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