Archive for June 3, 2019
Bl. Otto Neururer
Birth name: Otto Neururer Born: 25 March 1882 Piller, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary Died: 30 May 1940 (aged 58) Buchenwald, Gau Thuringia, Germany Feast day: 30 May Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Beatified: 24 November 1996 Saint Peter’s Basilica, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II Patronage: Preachers, Marriage Blessed Otto Neururer (25 March 1882 – 30 […]
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St. Ferdinand III of Castile
Born: 1199/1201 Monastery of Valparaíso, Peleas de Arriba, Kingdom of Leon Died: 30 May 1252 Seville, Crown of Castile Beatified: 31 May 1655 by Pope Alexander VII Canonized: 1671 by Pope Clement X Patronage: Authorities, governors, rulers, engineers, large families, magistrates, parenthood, paupers, poor people, prisoners, Spanish monarchy, tertiaries, Seville, Spain,Ilagan, Philippines, diocese of Lucena, […]
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Novena to St. Joan of Arc
(Pray novena for 9 consecutive days) Opening prayer: Eternal Father, you gave us Saint Joan of Arc through your infinite love and mercy for us. We humbly ask that you send down your Holy Spirit upon us, as Your Spirit is the intermediary by which the Word goes forth from your lips and reaches the […]
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Prayers to St. Joan of Arc
Prayer to St. Joan of Arc In the face of your enemies,in the face of harassment, ridicule, and doubt, you held firm in your faith.Even in your abandonment, alone and without friends, you held firm in your faith.Even as you faced your own mortality, you held firm in your faith.I pray that I may be as bold in […]
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St. Joan of Arc
Born: Jeanne d’Arc c. 1412 Domrémy, Duchy of Bar, Kingdom of France Died: 30 May 1431 (aged approx. 19) Rouen, Normandy (then under English rule) Venerated: in Roman Catholic Church Anglican Communion Beatified: 18 April 1909, Notre-Dame de Paris, by Pope Pius X Canonized: 16 May 1920, St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome by Pope Benedict XV Feast: […]
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Bl. James Salomone
Born: 1231 at Venice, Italy Died: 31 March 1314 of cancer at Forli, Italy Beatified: 1526 by Pope Clement VII Patronage: against cancer, cancer patients Born to the nobility, and an only child. His father died when James was very small, his mother left the family to become a Cistercian nun, and James was raised […]
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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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Prayers to St. Kevin of Glendalough
Prayer to St. Kevin of Glendalough Saint Kevin, you were privileged to live in the Age of Saints, O Father Kevin being baptized by one saint, taught by another and buried by a third. Pray to God that He will raise up saints in our day to help, support and guide us into the Way […]
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St. Kevin of Glendalough
Born: 498 (reputedly) Ireland Died: 3 June 618 Venerated: in Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church (cultus confirmation) Canonized: 1903 (cultus confirmed) Feast: 3 June Patronage: blackbirds, Archdiocese of Dublin, Glendalough, Kilnamanagh Saint Kevin (modern Irish Caoimhín; Old Irish Cóemgen, Caemgen; latinized Coemgenus; 498 (reputedly)–3 June 618) is an Irish saint, known as the founder […]
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Novena to St. Charles Lwanga and Companions
(Please recite this novena for 9 consecutive days)In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, Amen. O God, by whose providence the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church: Grant that we who remember before you the blessed martyrs of Uganda, may, like them, be […]
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