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St. John of Capistrano
Born: 24 June 1386 Capestrano, Abruzzi, Kingdom of Naples Died: 23 October 1456 (aged 70) Ilok, Syrmia, Kingdom of Hungary Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Canonized: 1690 or 1724, Rome by either Pope Alexander VIII or Pope Benedict XIII Feast: 23 October; 28 March (General Roman Calendar, 1890–1969) Patronage: Jurists, Belgrade and Hungary Today’s saint, […]
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St. Joaquín Royo Pérez
Born: 1691 at Teruel Spain Died: tortured and strangled to death on the evening of 28 October 1748 in prison at Fu-tsheu, China, relics enshrined in the church of Saint Dominic in Manila, Philippines Canonized: 1 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: October 28 Joined the Dominicans in Valencia, Spain in 1709. […]
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St. Simon and St. Jude
Feast day: October 28 Simon was a simple Galilean, a brother of Jesus, as the ancients called one’s close relatives — aunts, uncles, first cousins; he was one of the Saviour’s four first cousins, with James the Less, Jude and Joseph, all sons of Mary, the wife of Alpheus, or Cleophas, either name being a […]
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St. Jerome
Born: c. 347 Stridon (possibly Strido Dalmatiae, on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia) (located in modern Croatia)Died: 30 September 420 (aged c. 73)[2] Bethlehem, Palaestina Prima Venerated: in Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodoxy Anglican Communion Lutheranism Major shrine: Basilica of Saint Mary Major, Rome, Italy Feast: 30 September (Latin Catholic Church) Patronage: […]
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Sts. Cyprian and Justina
Born: 3rd century AD Died: September 26, 304; Nicomedia, Bithynia, Asia Minor, Roman Empire Venerated: in Oriental Orthodoxy; Eastern Orthodox Church; Roman Catholic Church Feast: September 26, October 2 (Eastern Orthodox Church) The detestable superstitions of Saint Cyprian’s idolatrous parents delivered him, from his infancy, to the devil, and he was brought up in all […]
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Bl. José Ramón Ferragud Girbes
Born: 10 October 1887 in Algemesí, Valencia, Spain Died: shot on 24 September 1936 in Alzira, Valencia, Spain Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II Baptized at the age of two days at his parish church of Saint James the Apostle. Lifelong layman in the archdiocese of Valencia, Spain. Married on 21 January […]
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Bl. Jozef Stanek
Born: 4 December 1916 in Lapsze Nizne, Poland Died: hanged on 23 September 1944 in a ruined factory in the Solec district of Czerniaków, Poland, body left to hang as an example to others, the chapel in the Warsaw Uprising Museum is named in his honourBeatified: 13 June 1999 by Pope John Paul II in Warsaw, […]
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St. Julia of Corsica
Born: 6th to 7th century Carthaginian Died: beaten and crucified c.616-620 at Cape Corso, Corsica, relics at the Benedictine abbey at Brescia, Italy in 763, which became a middle ages pilgrimage site, some relics later taken to Leghorn (modern Livorno, Italy Patronage: torture victims, Corsica, France, Brescia, Italy, Leghorn, Italy, Livorno, Italy, torture victims; pathologies […]
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Bl. John Forest
Born: 1471 at Oxford, England Died: hanged and burned to death on 22 May 1538 at Smithfield, England, a wooden statue of Saint Derfel, taken from a local church, was used in the fire, supposedly fulfilling a local prophecy that the statue’s burning would destroy a forest, John’s relics may still be in hiding in […]
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Pope St. John I
Born: in Populonia, Tuscany, Italy Papal Ascension: 13 August 523 Papacy ended: 18 May 526 Died: 18 May 526 of thirst and starvation in prison in Ravenna, Italy Pope John I (Latin: Ioannes I; died 18 May 526) was the bishop of Rome from 13 August 523 to his death. He was a native of Siena (or the “Castello di Serena”, near Chiusdino), in Italy. […]
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