Results for all Saints/Blesseds 11 - 20 of 28. |
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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 |
