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St. Tarachus and companions
IN the year 304, during Emperor Diocletian’s persecution, Tarachus, Probus, and Andronicus, differing in age and nationality, but united in…
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St. Bridget of Sweden
ST. BRIDGET was born of the Swedish royal family, in 1304. In obedience to her father, she was married to…
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St. Mark, Pope
ST. MARK was by birth a Roman, and served God with fervor among the clergy of Rome. He advanced continually…
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St. Placid, Martyr
ST. PLACID was born in Rome, in the year 515, of a patrician family, and at seven years of age…
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St. Francis of Assisi
ST. FRANCIS, the son of a merchant of Assisi, was born in that city in 1182. Chosen by God to…
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St. Gerard, Abbot
ST. GERARD was of a noble family of the county of Namur, France. An engaging sweetness of temper, and a…
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The Holy Guardian Angels
GOD does not abandon to mere chance any of His handiworks; by His providence He is everywhere present; not a…
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St. Michael, Archangel
“MI-CA-EL,” or “Who is like to God?” Such was the cry of the great Archangel when he smote the rebel…
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St. Fermin (Fermin) of Amiens, St. Finbarr, Bishop
ST. FIRMIN was a native of Pampelone in Navarre, initiated in the Christian faith by Honestus, a disciple of St.…
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St. Robert Bellarmine
St. Robert Bellarmine (1542-1621) of whom Pope Clement VIII said: “The Church of God had not his equal in learning,”…