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Pope St. Clement I
Born: ca. 35 AD Rome, Roman Empire Papacy began: 88 AD Papacy ended: 99 AD Died: 99 AD (aged 63-64) Chersonesus, Taurica, Bosporan Kingdom (modern-day Crimea, Ukraine/Russia) Feast day: 23 November (Catholic Church), 24 November (most Byzantine Churches), 25 November (Russian Orthodox Church), 29 Hathor (Oriental Orthodox Churches) Venerated: in Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheran […]
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St. Caesarius of Arles
Born: 468 470 AD Chalon-sur-Saône, Western Roman Empire Died: 27 August 542 AD Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Feast: August 27 Brother of Saint Caesaria of Arles. Entered the monastery at Lérins at age 18, and worked as his house’s cellarer. His devotion to duty earned him the enmity of some of […]
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St. Camillus de Lellis
Born: May 25, 1550 Bucchianico, Chieti, Kingdom of Naples Died: July 14, 1614 (aged 64) Rome, Papal States Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 1742, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Benedict XIV Canonized: 1746, Rome, Papal States, by Pope Benedict XIV Major shrine: Church of Santa Maria Maddalena, Rome, Italy Feast: 14 July 18 July […]
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St. Columba of Iona
Born: 7 December 521 Gartan, Ireland Died: 9 June 597 (aged 75) Iona, Scotland Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Orthodox Church Anglican Communion Presbyterian Church Major shrine: Iona, Scotland Feast: 9 June Patronage: Derry, floods, bookbinders, poets, Ireland, Scotland. Saint Columba (Irish: Colm Cille, ‘church dove’; Scots: Columbkille; 7 December 521 – 9 June 597) […]
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St. Colman of Dromore
Venerated: in Roman Catholicism Feast: 7 June Patronage: Roman Catholic Diocese of Dromore Saint Colmán of Dromore, also known by the pet form Mocholmóc, was a 6th-century Irish saint. LifeColman was a native of Dalriada, born roughly a generation after Patrick’s apostolate to Ireland, and was baptized by a bishop, bearing his own name who […]
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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. 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. Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi
Born: September 1903 Aguleri, Anambra, Nigeria Died: 20 January 1964 Leicester, England Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 22 March 1998 by Pope John Paul II Feast: 20 January Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi (born in Aguleri, Anambra State, Nigeria in September 1903 – died in Leicester, England, 20 January 1964) was an Igbo Nigerian ordained […]
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St. Canutus
Saint Canutus, King of Denmark, succeeded his elder brother Harold on the throne of Denmark in the year 1080. He began his reign by a successful war against the enemies of the state, and by planting the faith in the conquered provinces. Amid the glory of his victories he humbly prostrated himself at the foot […]
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St. Charles of Sezze
Born: 19 October 1613 Sezze, Papal States Died: 6 January 1670 (aged 56) Rome, Papal States Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 22 January 1882, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Kingdom of Italy by Pope Leo XIII Canonized: 12 April 1959, Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John XXIII Major shrine: San Francesco a Ripa, Rome, […]
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