Archive for November 9, 2020
Prayers of St. Teresa of Avila
Prayer of St. Teresa of Avila Lord, grant that I may always allow myself to be guided by You,always follow Your plans, and perfectly accomplish Your Holy Will. Grant that in all things, great and small, today and all the days of my life,I may do whatever You require of me. Help me respond to […]
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St. Teresa of Avila
Born: 28 March 1515 at Avila, Castile, Spain as Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada Died: 4 October 1582 at Alba de Tormes of natural causes in the arms of her secretary and close friend Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew, body incorrupt, relics preserved at Alba, her heart shows signs of Transverberation (piercing of the […]
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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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Bl. Társila Córdoba Belda de Girona
Born: 8 May 1861 in Sollana, Valencia, Spain Died: shot at dawn on 17 October 1936 against the wall of the cemetery in Algemesí, Valencia, Spain Beatified: 11 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II Feast day: October 17 Lifelong lay woman in the archdiocese of Valencia, Spain. Married to Girona Lozano in 1884; mother […]
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Bl. Maria del Carmen of the Child Jesus
Born: 30 June 1834 in Antequera, Málaga, Spain as María del Carmen González-Ramos García-Prieto Died: 9 November 1899 in Antequera, Málaga, Spain of typhus, buried at Our Lady of Victory church at the mother house of the Franciscan Sisters of the Sacred Heart in Antequera Beatified: 6 May 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI, beatification recognition […]
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