Tagged: “saints”
St. John Berchmans
Born: 13 March 1599 at Driest, Brabant, Belgium Died: 12 August 1621 at Rome, Italy, relics at Saint Ignatius Church, Rome Canonized: 15 January 1888 by Pope Leo XIII Patronage: altar boys, altar girls, altar servers, Oblate novices, young people. Also known as Jan Berchmans Son of a shoemaker, and one of five children, three […]
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St. Maximus the Confessor
Born: c.580 at Constantinople Died: 13 August 662 at Batum near the Black Sea of natural causes, strange lights reported hovering near his tomb. Also known as Maximus of Constantinople, Maximus Confessor, Maximus the Theologian, Maximus Homogoletes Born to the Byzantine nobility. Chief secretary to Emperor Heraclius, a post he resigned to become a monk […]
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St. Zacchaeus the Publican
Also known as Zaccheo Additional Memorials 20 April (Coptic calendar), 32nd Sunday after Pentecost (Byzantine calendar), 27 August (Martyrology of Rabban Sliba) Mentioned in Gospel of Luke as the short tax collector who climbed a tree in order to see Jesus because he couldn’t see over the crowd. Jesus decided to go to the man’s […]
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St. Maria de Mattias
Born: 4 February 1805 at Vallecorsa, Frosinone, Papal States (modern Italy) Died: 20 August 1866 in Rome, Italy of natural causes, buried in the Verano cemetery, Rome, relics venerated in Rome at the Church of the Precious Blood Canonized: 18 May 2003 by Pope John Paul II at Vatican Basilica. Born to a pious and […]
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St. Bernard of Clairvaux
Born: 1090 at Fontaines-les-Dijon, Burgundy, France Died: 20 August 1153 at Clairvaux Abbey, Ville-sous-la-Ferté, Aube, France Canonized 1170 by Pope Alexander III Patronage: beekeepers, bees, Burgundy, France, candlemakers, chandlers, Cistercian Order, Cistercians, Gibraltar, Knights Templar, Queens College, Cambridge, England, Speyer Cathedral, wax-melters, wax refiners. Also known as Mellifluous Doctor of the Church, Last of the […]
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St. Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia
Born: February 1589 in Régil, Guipúzcoa, Spain Died: 14 August 1633 in Nishizaka, Nagasaki, Japan Canonized: 18 October 1987 by Pope John Paul II. Joined the Dominicans in 1605. Priest. Missionary to Pangasinan, Philippines in 1611. Taught theology at the Colegio de Santo Tomas. Missionary to Japan in 1623 during a time of violent persecution […]
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St. Antony Primaldo and Companions
Died: hacked to pieces on 13 August 1480 in Otranto, Lecce, Italy Beatified: 14 December 1771 by Pope Clement XIV (cultus confirmed), 6 July 2007 by Pope Benedict XVI (decree of martyrdom) Canonized: Sunday 12 May 2013 by Pope Francis in Rome, Italy Patronage: Otranto, Italy. Also known as Martyrs of Otranto An aged lay […]
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St. Arnulf of Soissons
Born: 1040 at Flanders, Belgium Died: 1087 at the monastery at Aldenburg, diocese of Bruges, Flanders, Belgium of natural causes, miracles reported at his tomb were investigated and approved by a council at Beauvais, France in 1121, relics translated to the church of Saint Peter, Aldenburg, Belgium in 1131 Patronage: brewers, hop pickers, millers, music, […]
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St. Magnus of Anagni
Born: 2nd century at Trani, Italy Died: beheaded near Fabrateria Vetus, Latium (modern Ceccano, Italy), buried in Fondi, Italy, relics translated from Fondi to Veroli, Italy, relics translated to the cathedral in Anagni, Italy after a wealthy but superstitious Muslim had some horses die when near them in Veroli Patronage: Anagni-Alatri, Italy, diocese of Anagni, […]
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