Showing posts with label catholic blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label catholic blogs. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 15, 2024

St. Ambrose

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Feast Day: December 7 Doctor of the Church Credit: Photo from https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-ambrose-76  Biography:    Saint A...
Wednesday, March 20, 2024

St. Aloysius Gonzaga

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 Feast Day: June 21 Biography: St. Aloysius Gonzaga was born on March 9, 1568, in the castle of Castiglione delle Stiviere, in Lombardy, no...
Tuesday, February 20, 2024

St. Albert the Great

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Feast Day: November 15 Doctor of the Church  Saint Albert the Great, also known as Albertus Magnus, was a notable figure in the history of ...
Tuesday, February 6, 2024

St. Agnes of Rome

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Feast Day: January 21 St. Agnes of Rome was a Christian martyr who lived in the 4th century and is revered as a saint in both the Catholic C...
Monday, November 25, 2013

Saint Pancratius

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Feast Day: May 12 Not many facts are known about St. Pancratius, because he was born so long ago.  Legend has it,however, that he was bo...
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Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Saint Lucy also known as Saint Lucia or Santa Lucia of Syracuse

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Feast Day: December 13 Saint Lucy or Santa Lucia's name is derived from Lux/Lucis which means "light" and she is also t...
Thursday, March 8, 2012

Saint Boniface also known as Bonifacius

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Feast Day: June 5 Boniface, or Winfrid (his baptismal name), was born into a Christian family of noble rank. At a very young age, Winfr...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Saint John Bosco

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Feast Day : January 31 Don Bosco was born on 16 August 1815 in a village called Becchi north of Italy. John’s father died when he was t...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Saint Vincent Ferrer

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Feast Day: April 5 Saint Vincent Ferrer was born at Valencia, Spain on January 23, 1357. In 1374, he entered the Order of St. Dominic a...
Monday, March 8, 2010

Saint Josephine Bakhita

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Feast Day: February 8 Bakhita was not the name given to her by her parents at birth. The trauma of her abduction caused her to forget her...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Saint Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc also known as Jeanne la Pucelle, the Maid)

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Feast Day: May 30 A peasant girl, Joan of Arc was born on January 6, 1412 in the village of Domremy, at the time of the Hundred Years’ War...
Thursday, January 14, 2010

Saint Genevieve

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Feast Day: January 3  St. Genevieve was born at Nanterre near Paris around the year 422. She was seven years old when Bishop Germanus of Aux...
Monday, November 30, 2009

Saint Thomas More

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Feast Day: June 22 Early Life Thomas was born in 1478. His father, Sir John More, is a judge at the royal court. While still a child,...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Saint Jean-Marie Vianney / Saint John Mary Vianney

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Feast Day: August 4 Father Jean-Marie Baptiste Vianney arrived in the church around 2 in the morning, carrying a lighted candle in his h...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Saint Catherine of Siena

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Doctor of the Church Feast Day: April 29 Early Years Catherine Benincasa was born in Sienna in 1347, she is the youngest in the 25 sib...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Saint John Fisher

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Feast Day: June 22 John Fisher was born in 1459 at Beverly, Yorkshire, England. He studied theology in Cambridge and in 1491, he occupie...
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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Saint Vincent de Paul

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Feast Day: Sept 27 Early Years Born at Pouy, a village in southwestern, France, in April 24, 1581 to a peasant family. Vincent was faith...

Saint Augustine

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Feast Day: August 28 Early Life: Augustine was born on November 13, 354, in Thagaste (present-day Souk Ahras, Algeria), in the Roman provi...