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St. Albert of Jerusalem
Death: 1215 Feastday: September 25 Patriarch of Jerusalem and patron of the Carmelite Order. He was an outstanding ecclesiastical figure in the era in which the Holy See faced opposition from Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa. Serving as a mediator in the dispute between the emperor and Pope Clement III, Albert was made an imperial prince, […]
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St. Anthony of Padua
Born: 15 August 1195 Lisbon, Portugal Died: 13 June 1231 of natural causes, buried on the Tuesday following his death in the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Padua, Italy, legend says that all the sick who visited his new grave were healed Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 30 May 1232 Canonized: 30 May 1232, Spoleto, […]
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St. Pothinus, Sanctus, Attalus, Blandina
After a miraculous victory obtained by the prayers of a Christian legion under Marcus Aurelius in 174, the Church was enjoying a kind of peace, which was nonetheless often disturbed in various places by popular commotions, or by the superstitious fury of pagan governors. These factors become evident in the persecution which was raised at […]
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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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St. Andrew Bobola
Born: 1591 Sandomir Palatine, Lesser Poland, Crown of the Kingdom of Poland, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Died: 16 May 1657 Janów, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Venerated: in Roman Catholicism (by Poland and the Society of Jesus) Beatified: 30 October 1853, Rome, Papal States by Pope Pius IX Canonized: 17 April 1938, Vatican City by Pope […]
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Bl. Andrew Abellon
Born: 1375 at Saint Maximin, Provence, France Died: 15 May 1450 at Aix-en-Provence, France of natural causes, buried in the Church of the Magdalen, his tomb became known as a site of miraculous cures Beatified: 1902 by Pope Leo XIII (cultus confirmed) Patronage: against fever Feast: 15 May In his youth he got to listen […]
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St. André-Hubert Fournet
Born: 6 December 1752 Saint-Pierre-de-Maillé, Vienne, Kingdom of France Died: 13 May 1834 (aged 81) La Puye, Vienne, French Kingdom Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 16 May 1926, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Kingdom of Italy by Pope Pius XI Canonized: 4 June 1933, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope Pius XI Feast: 13 MayPatronage: […]
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St. Antoninus
Born: Antonio Pierozzi 1 March 1389 Florence, Florentine Republic Died: 2 May 1459 (aged 70) Florence, Florentine Republic Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church (Archdiocese of Florence and Dominican Order), Iglesia Filipina Independiente (Diocese of Tarlac) Canonized: 31 May 1523, Rome by Pope Adrian VI Major shrine: Church of San Marco Florence, Italy Feast: 2 May; […]
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St. Agostino Roscelli
Born: 27 July 1818 Bargone, Casarza Ligure, Italy Died: 7 May 1902 (aged 83) Genoa, Liguria, Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 7 May 1995 by Pope John Paul II Canonized: 10 June 2001 by Pope John Paul II Feast: 7 May Agostino Roscelli (27 July 1818 – 7 May 1902), also known as Augustine Roscelli, […]
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St. Angelo
Birth: 1185 Death: 1220 Feast day: May 5Patronage: Licata, Italy St. Angelo, who was one of the early members of the Carmelite Order, suffered martyrdom for the Faith at Leocata, Sicily. The story of his life, as it has come down, is not very reliable. It may be summarized as follows: His parents were Jews […]
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