Showing posts with label saints. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saints. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

St. Aedan of Ferns

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  Feast Day: January 31 Saint Aedan of Ferns, also known as Máedóc or Áedán or Aidan, was an early Christian saint in Ireland. He is remembe...
Wednesday, January 17, 2024

St. Adrian of Nicomedia

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Feast Day: September 8 St. Adrian was a high-ranking officer at the court of the Roman Emperor Maximian. He lived in Nicomedia, which was th...
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...
Friday, April 16, 2010

Saint Blaise

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Feast  Day: February 3 Only a few facts are known about Saint Blaise. Saint Blaise was born in to a noble and affluent family who rais...
Thursday, April 8, 2010

Saint Maria Goretti

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Feast Day: July 6 Maria Teresa Goretti was born in Corinaldo, Ancona, Italy, on October 16 1890. She was the third out of six children ...
Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Saint Lorenzo Ruiz

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Feast Day: September 28 Lorenzo Ruiz was born in Binondo, Manila on November 28, 1594.  His father was Chinese and his mother Filipino.  ...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Saint Vincenta Maria Lopez y Vicuña

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Feast Day: December 26 Saint Vicenta Maria Lopez y Vicuña was born at Cascante, Spain in March 24, 1847. Vicenta had a happy childhood. ...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Saint Jane Frances de Chantal (Jeanne-Francoise Fremyot)

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Feast Day:  August 12 Jeanne-Francoise Fremyot was born in 1572 and raised in a Catholic family during the time of the Protestant reforma...
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...
Thursday, October 8, 2009

Saint Benedict

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Founder of Western Monasticism Feast Day: July 11 Life Entrusted to God Benedict was born in Nursia about the year 480. He was very yo...
Saturday, October 3, 2009

List of Saints

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A Saint Aaron Saint Abba Dorotheus Saint Adrian Saint Aedan of Ferns Saint Aelred Saint Afra Saint Agapetus Saint Agatha Saint Agne...

Canonization

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By canonizing some of the faithful, i.e., by solemnly proclaiming that they practiced heroic virtue and lived in fidelity to God's grace...

What is a Saint?

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From: Our Catholic Faith (A Manual of Religion) p 394 The model of Christian perfection is our Lord. The saints, who imitated Him steadfa...