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Sts. Primus and Felicianus
Born: early 3rd century; Nomentum (modern-day Mentana) Feast: June 9 These two martyrs were brothers who lived in Rome, heirs of a family of great wealth, toward the latter part of the third century. It was through the assiduous love of Pope Felix I that they had the happiness, in their mature years, of being […]
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St. Francesco Saverio Maria Bianchi
Born: December 2, 1743 Arpino, Lazio, Papal States Died: January 31, 1815 (aged 71) Naples, Kingdom of Naples Venerated: in Roman Catholicism (Barnabite Order and the Archdiocese of Naples) Beatified: February 22, 1893, Rome, Kingdom of Italy by Pope Leo XIII Canonized: October 21, 1951, Rome, Italy, by Pope Pius XII Major shrine: Church of […]
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St. François Jaccard
Born: 16 September 1799 at Onion, Haute-Savoie, France Died: strangled to death on 21 September 1838 in Nhan Bieu, Quang Tri, Tonkin, Indo-China (modern Vietnam), buried near Tonkin by local Christians, later moved to the Seminary for Foreign Missions, Paris, France Venerated: 2 July 1899 by Pope Leo XIII (decree of martyrdom) Beatified: 27 May 1900 […]
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St. Francis of Assisi
Born: 1181 Assisi, Duchy of Spoleto, Holy Roman Empire Died: 3 October 1226 (aged 44 years) Assisi, Umbria, Papal States Venerated: in Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism, Old Catholic Church Canonized: 16 July 1228, Assisi, Papal States by Pope Gregory IX Major shrine: Basilica of San Francesco d’Assisi Feast day: 4 October Patronage: Franciscan Order, […]
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St. François-Isidore Gagelin
Born: 10 May 1799 in Montperreux, Doubs, France Died: strangled to death on 17 October 1833 in Bãi Dâu, Saigon, Vietnam, buried in Phukam, Vietnam, relics later transferred to the seminary in Paris, France Canonized: 19 June 1988 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: October 17 Studied at the Grand Seminary at Besancon, France. […]
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St. Frumentius, Bishop, Apostle of Ethiopia
Feast day: October 27 Saint Saint Frumentius was still a child when his uncle, a Christian philosopher of Tyre in Phoenicia, took him and his brother Edesius on a voyage to Ethiopia. In the course of their voyage the vessel anchored at a certain port, and the barbarians of that country slew with the sword […]
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St. Francisco Díaz del Rincón
Born: 2 October 1713 in Ecija, Seville, 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 Ecija, […]
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Bl. Frances d’Amboise
Born: 28 September 1427 in Thouars, Deux-Sèvres, France Died: 4 November 1485 at Les Couêts, Nantes, France of natural causes while in a religious ecstasy, miracles reported at her tomb, her body had to be moved to save it during the Huguenot wars, and again in the French Revolution Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 16 July […]
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St. Francis Borgia
Born: 28 October 1510 Duchy of Gandía, Kingdom of Valencia, Spain Died: 30 September 1572 (aged 61) Rome, Papal States Venerated: in Catholic Church Beatified: 23 November 1624, Madrid, Kingdom of Spain by Pope Urban VIII Canonized: 20 June 1670, Rome by Pope Clement X Major shrine: Relics translated to Jesuit church in Madrid, 1901 […]
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St. Finbarr
Born: c.550 at Connaught, Ireland as Lochan Died: 25 September 623 at Cloyne, Ireland of natural causes, interred in the cathedral at Cork, Ireland Patronage: Cork, Ireland, diocese of, Barra, Scotland, Cork, Ireland Saint Finbarr, who lived in the sixth century, was a native of Connaught, Ireland. He founded a monastery or school at Lough […]
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