Results for all Saints/Blesseds 1 - 28 of 28. |
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Blessed John Paul II was a man of tremendous prayerful holiness and great personal prestige who influenced a generation with his long pontificate and great magnetic appeal. He has been called, the Great, a term used only ... read more » |
1978-2005 |
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Angelo Roncalli was born in Sotto il Monte, Italy, November 25, 1881. He was the fourth of fourteen children born to a devout Catholic family of sharecroppers. His religious education came from his family and from the spiritu... read more » |
1958-1963 |
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Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta But above all be convinced of Jesus’ tender love for you in and through this present situation and no matter what its outcome is, listen to Jesus speak in your heart.Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta Agnes Gonxha Bo... read more » |
1910-1997 |
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Giuseppe Sarto was born in Riese in 1835 into a large family of limited means. He studied in Castelfranco, displaying remarkable academic abilities while still very young. From 1850 – 1858, he studied at the seminary in... read more » |
1903-1914 |
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It has been a long trial this time. Perhaps — and without the perhaps — you haven't borne it well so far, for you were still seeking human consolations. And your Father— God tore them out by the roots so a... read more » |
1902-1975 |
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On October 25th, 1942, then Archbishop Aloysius Stepinac commented on racial acceptance: We affirm then that all peoples and races descend from God. In fact, there exists but one race. The members can be white or black. The... read more » |
1898-1960 |
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The Words of St.Padre Pio: It would be easier for the earth to exist without the sun than without the holy sacrifice of the Mass. Francesco Forgione, better known to the world as Padre Pio, was born on the May 25. 1887, a... read more » |
1887-1968 |
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Blessed Rupert Mayer The Apostle of Munich Blessed Rupert Mayer was a German Jesuit priest. He is best known for the apostolic endeavours he undertook in Munich between the First and Second World Wars. He is known as the Apos... read more » |
1876-1945 |
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Saint Luigi Orione was born in Piedmont, Northern Italy, at Pontecurone, a village near Tortona on June 23, 1872. The young Luigi felt he wanted to be a priest and joined the Franciscans, but had to leave due to ill health. H... read more » |
1872-1940 |
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Our entire person must breathe Jesus, all our actions. Our whole life must cry out that we belong to Jesus, reflect a Gospel way of living. Our whole being must be a living proclamation, a reflection of Jesus. CHARLES DE ... read more » |
1858-1916 |
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Andrea Ferrari was born in La Latta, Parma on August 13, 1850. In 1873 he was ordained to the priesthood and worked as a parish priest and then as the vice-rector of the seminary in Parma. In 1877 he was appointed the seminar... read more » |
1850-1921 |
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Born in Italy in 1850, Frances Xavier Cabrini is the first American to be canonized. She was the thirteenth child of a moderately prosperous Lombardi farmer. Having run an orphanage in northern Italy for three years after bec... read more » |
1850-1917 |
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Giovanni Mastai-Ferretti was born in the coastal town of Senigallia in 1772, the fourth son of a count. He studied theology in Viterbo and Rome and in 1815, at the age of twenty-three, entered the Papal Noble Guard. He was di... read more » |
1846-1878 |
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The Apostle of Catholic Education The political unification of Italy in 1870 unleashed the forces of secularization in the territories that comprised the new kingdom. The Papal States and Rome itself were seized, religious or... read more » |
1841-1897 |
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Michael Rua was born in Turin on June 9, 1837, the youngest of nine children. At the age of fifteen, he entered the Oratory and very soon became a close friend and confidante of Don Bosco. Rua was one of the first group to wh... read more » |
1837-1910 |
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St. John Bosco, the founder of the Salesian Society, was born in Piedmont, Italy on August 16th, 1815. When he was two years old his father died leaving three boys to the care of their mother, Margaret Bosco. As a child he wa... read more » |
1815-1888 |
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God has created me to do him some definite service. He has committed some work to me, which He has not committed to another. I have my mission. I may never know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next. I am a li... read more » |
1801-1890 |
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Antonio Maria Gianelli was born April 12, 1789 in eastern Liguria to a middle class family. He was considered intelligent and industrious. He entered the seminary at Genoa and was ordained in 1812. Gianelli is noted for his e... read more » |
1789-1864 |
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Jean-Marie Vianney was a French parish priest born May 8, 1786 in the village of Dardilly to a family of farmers. He was the fourth of six children whose parents were known for both their generosity and their piety. Vianney&#... read more » |
1786-1859 |
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August 1st is the feast of St. Alphonsus de Liguori who was born at Naples, September 27th, 1696, the first of seven children. His was a very pious family that gave the Church two priests and two nuns. Alphonsus was a precoc... read more » |
1773-1840 |
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Remember that your soul is a temple of the living God. The kingdom of God is within you. Night and day let your aim be to remain in simplicity and gentleness, calmness and serenity so that you will find your joy in the Lord... read more » |
1694-1755 |
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Benedetto Odescalchi was born in 1611 into an Italian family of wealthy merchants in Como, a town in the Lombardy region in the north of Italy. His early studies in human sciences were with the Jesuits at his local college. B... read more » |
1676-1689 |
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Antony Ghislieri was born to humble parents in 1504. As a child he had been a shepherd. He entered the Dominican order at age fourteen and his conduct there was exemplary, particularly his devotion to an ascetic life style. T... read more » |
1566-1572 |
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An Exerpt From a Sermon of Saint Lawrence of Brindisi, Priest For the word of God is a light to the mind and a fire to the will. It enables man to know God and to love him. And for the interior man who lives by the Spirit ... read more » |
1559-1619 |
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Robert Bellarmine was born October 4th, 1542 at Monte Pulciano in Tuscany to a noble though impoverished family. His mother was the sister of Pope Marcellus II whose papacy lasted for twenty-two days in 1555. While still very... read more » |
1542-1621 |
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Charles Borromeo was the son of Count Gilbert Borromeo and Margaret Medici, sister of Pope Pius IV. He was born at the family castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore, Italy on October 2, 1538. He received the clerical tonsure when h... read more » |
1538-1584 |
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Bitter wrangling and infighting and the influence of monarchies from both eastern and western Europe often marked the conclaves of the early church. Such was the case in 1292 when Pope Nicholas IV died, and the next conclave ... read more » |
1294 |
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St. Deusdedit, whose birth date is unknown, was the son of a Roman subdeacon, Stephen, who was elected to succeed Pope Boniface IV in October, 615. Little is known about him other than he had already served as a priest for fo... read more » |
615-618 |
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