Saint Dominic, Priest
Dominic de Guzman was born around 1170 in Caleruega, Castile. Traveling through southern France, he encountered the Albigensian or Cathar...
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Saint Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr
Lawrence was one of the seven deacons of Rome in the third century, serving under Pope Sixtus II. Deacons were...
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Saint Maximilian Kolbe, Priest and Martyr
Maximilian Kolbe was born Raymond Kolbe in 1894 in Zdunska Wola, Poland, then under partitioned rule. A Conventual Franciscan, he...
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The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Assumption celebrates the belief that Mary, at the end of her earthly life, was taken body and soul into...
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Saint Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church
Bernard of Clairvaux was born in Burgundy in 1090 and entered the Cistercian monastery of Citeaux in 1112 with a...
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Saint Pius X, Pope
Giuseppe Sarto was born in 1835 in Riese, in the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia, to a humble family. After serving as...
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Saint Bartholomew, Apostle
Bartholomew is listed among the Twelve Apostles in the Synoptic Gospels and Acts. He is often identified with Nathanael in...
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Saint Monica
Monica was born around 331 in Thagaste, in Roman North Africa, present-day Algeria. Married to Patricius, she lived within a...
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Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Augustine was born in 354 in Thagaste, Roman North Africa. Brilliant, ambitious, and restless, he studied rhetoric, embraced Manichaeism, pursued...
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Saint Gregory the Great, Pope, and Doctor of the Church
Gregory was born around 540 into a noble Roman family after the Western Empire had fallen and Italy had been...
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Saint Teresa of Calcutta, Virgin
Teresa of Calcutta was born Anjeze Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in 1910 in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman-influenced Balkans. She joined...
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Saint Peter Claver, Priest
Peter Claver was born in 1580 in Catalonia, Spain, and entered the Society of Jesus. Sent to the Spanish colonial...