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St. George
Born: Palestine Died: 23 April 303 Nicomedia, Bithynia, Roman Empire Venerated: in Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Oriental Orthodoxy Church of the East Anglican Communion Lutheranism Umbanda Major shrine: Church of Saint George, Lod St. George Syro-Malabar Catholic Forane Church, Edappally St. George Orthodox Church Puthuppally Pally Feast: 23 April (Saint George’s Day) 6 May […]
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St. Gerard of Toul
Born: c. 935 Cologne, Kingdom of Germany Died: 23 April 994 (aged 58–59) Toul, Kingdom of France Buried Toul Cathedral, Toul, France Feast day: 23 April Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Canonized: 21 October 1050 Rome, Papal States by Pope Leo IX Patronage: Gerardmer, France Gerard (French: Geraud; German Gerhard; c. 935 – 23 April 994) was a German prelate […]
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St. Galdinus
Birth name: Galdino della Sala Born: c. 1096 Milan, Holy Roman Empire Died: 18 April 1176 (aged 79–80) Milan, Holy Roman Empire Sainthood Feast day: 18 April Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Canonized: Rome, Papal States by Pope Alexander III Consecration: 18 April 1166 by Pope Alexander III Created cardinal: 15 December 1165 by Pope Alexander […]
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St. Guthlac of Croyland
Born: 673 Kingdom of Mercia Died: 714 Croyland, ibid. Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Feast: 11 April Saint Guthlac of Crowland was a Christian saint from Lincolnshire in England. He is particularly venerated in the Fens of eastern England. Life Guthlac was the son of Penwalh or Penwald, a noble of the English kingdom of Mercia, and his wife Tette. […]
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St. Gemma Galgani
Born: Maria Gemma Umberta Galgani 12 March 1878 Camigliano, Capannori, Italy Died: 11 April 1903 (aged 25) Lucca, Italy Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 14 May 1933 by Pope Pius XI Canonized: 2 May 1940, Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope Pius XII Major shrine: Passionist Monastery in Lucca, Italy Feast: 11 April […]
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Pope St. Gregory the Great
Born: c. 540 Rome, Eastern Roman Empire Died: 12 March 604 (aged 64) Rome, Eastern Roman Empire Buried: St. Peter’s Basilica (1606) Residence Rome Feast day: 3 September (Latin Church), 12 March (Latin Church pre-1969, Eastern Churches, Anglicanism, Lutheranism) Venerated: in Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Anglicanism, Lutheranism Patronage: Musicians, singers, students, and teachers Pope Saint Gregory […]
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St. Guarinus of Sion
Born: c.1065 at Pont-à-Mousson, Lorraine (in modern France) Died: 27 August 1150 in the Aulps monastery in Savoy (in modern France) of natural causes, relics hidden in 1794 to save them from the anti–Christian excesses of the French Revolution, relics enshrined in the church of the parish of Saint John of the Aulps in 1804, […]
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Bl. Giuliana of Collalto
Born: 1186 in Collalto, Susegana, Treviso, Italy Died: 1 September 1262 at Venice, Italy of natural causes, buried in the cemetery of the San Biagio church of the Spinalonga convent, the location of her grave was lost, but in 1297 dozens of small flaming torches were seen to hover over it; her body found to […]
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St. Giles
Born: c. 650 Athens, Achaea, Eastern Roman Empire Died: c. 710 Septimania, Kingdom of the Visigoths (Languedoc, Southern France) Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Anglican Communion Canonized: Pre-Congregation Major shrine: Abbey of Saint-Gilles (Saint-Gilles, France) St. Giles’ Cathedral (Edinburgh, Scotland) Feast: 1 September Attributes arrow; crosier; hermitage; hind Patronage: beggars; blacksmiths; breast […]
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Bl. Giovanni Battista Scalabrini
Birth name: Giovanni Battista Scalabrini Born: 8 July 1839 Fino Mornasco, Como, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia Died: 1 June 1905 (aged 65) Piacenza, Kingdom of Italy Parents: Luigi Scalabrini, Colomba Trombetta Feast day: 1 June Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 9 November 1997 Saint Peter’s Square, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Patronage: Diocese […]
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