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St. Justus and Pastor of Alcala
Born: c.291-295 in Spain Died: scourged and beheaded in 304 at Alcala, Spain at ages 13 and 9 Patronage: Alcalá de Henares, Spain, diocese of Alcalá, Spain, Madrid, Spain. Teenage brothers who made a public proclamation of their Christianity, and were promptly arrested on the orders of Dacian, governor of Spain. Scourged to make the […]
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St. Jeanne de Chantal
Born: 28 January 1572 at Dijon, Burgundy, France Died: 13 December 1641 at the Visitationist convent at Moulins, France of natural causes, relics at Annecy, Savoy (in modern France Canonized: 16 July 1767 by Pope Clement XIII Patronage: against in-law problems, against the death of parents, forgotten people, parents separated from children, widows. Also known […]
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St. John Berchmans
Born: 13 March 1599 at Driest, Brabant, Belgium Died: 12 August 1621 at Rome, Italy, relics at Saint Ignatius Church, Rome Canonized: 15 January 1888 by Pope Leo XIII Patronage: altar boys, altar girls, altar servers, Oblate novices, young people. Also known as Jan Berchmans Son of a shoemaker, and one of five children, three […]
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St. John Eudes
Born: 14 November 1601 at Ri, Normandy, France Died: 19 August 1680 at Caen, Normandy, France Canonized: 31 May 1925 by Pope Pius XI Patronage: diocese of Baie-Comeau, Québec. As a thirteen-year-old orphan, Anne Garcia Manzanas, of Almendral, Spain, tended her brothers’ sheep. Devoted to the Passion of Christ, she wanted to consecrate her virgin- […]
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St. Jeanne of the Cross Delanoue
Born: 18 June 1666 at Samur, Anjou, France as Jeanne Delanoue Died: 17 August 1736 at Fencet, France of natural causes Canonized: 31 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II at Rome, Italy. Also known as Ioanna Delanoue, Jeanne del Croi Delanoue, Joan Delanoue, Johanna Delanoue Youngest of twelve children. Her father was draper; her […]
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St. John Camillus the Good
Died: c.660 of natural causes Also known as John Camillus, John the Good, John Bonus Archbishop of Milan, Italy, the first to live in the city for 80 years, his predecessors being in exile due to Arian Lombard invasion. Fought Arianism and Monothelitism. The reign of John the Good is remembered for the return of […]
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Bl. Jean Baptiste Lego
Born: 13 May 1766 in La Flèche, Sarthe, France Died: 1 January 1794 at Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France Beatified: 19 February 1984 by Pope John Paul II at Rome, Italy Additional Memorial 2 January as one of the Martyrs of Anjou Brother of Blessed René Lego. Priest in the diocese of Angers, France. Martyred in the […]
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Saint Jerome Emiliani
Born: 1481 at Venice, Italy Died: 8 February 1537 in Italy of a disease caught when tending the sick Canonized: 16 July 1767 by Pope Clement XIII Patronage: abandoned people, orphans Also known as Geronimo , Gerolamo Miani, Jerom Aemiliani Born wealthy, the son of Angelo and Eleanor Mauroceni Emiliani. His father died when Jerome […]
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St. Josephine Bakhita
Born: 1868 at Oglassa, Darfur, Sudan Died: 8 February 1947 of natural causes in Italy Canonized: 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II at Saint Peter’s Basilica, Rome, Italy, thought to be the only saint originally from Sudan Patronage: Sudan Born to a wealthy Sudanese family, she was kidnapped by slave-traders at age 9, […]
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St. John of Sahagun
Born: c. 1419 Sahagún, Province of Leon, Crown of Castile Died: 11 June 1479 (aged 48) Salamanca, Province of Salamanca, Crown of Castile Venerated: in Catholic Church (Order of St. Augustine and Diocese of Salamanca) Beatified: 1601, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Clement VIII Canonized: 16 October 1690, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Alexander VIII […]
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