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St. Paternus, Bishop
ST. PATERNUS was born at Poitiers, about the year 482. His father, Patranus, with the consent of his wife, went…
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St. Benezet, or Little Bennet
ST. BENEZET kept his mother’s sheep in the country, and as a mere child was devoted to practices of piety.…
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St. Hermenegild, Martyr
LEOVIGILD, King of the Visigoths, had two sons, Hermenegild and Recared, who reigned conjointly with him. All three were Arians,…
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St. Celestine, Pope
ST. CELESTINE was a native of Rome, and upon the demise of Pope Boniface he was chosen to succeed him,…
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St. Benjamin, Deacon and Martyr
ISDEGERDES, Son of Sapor III., put a stop to the cruel persecutions against the Christians in Persia, which had been…
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St. John Climacus
JOHN made, while still young, such progress in learning that he was called the Scholastic. At the age of sixteen…
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Sts. Jonas, Barachisius, and their Companions, Martyrs
KING SAPOR, of Persia, in the eighteenth year of his reign, raised a bloody persecution against the Christians, and laid…
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St. John of Egypt
TILL he was twenty-five, John worked as a carpenter with his father. Then feeling a call from God, he left…
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St. Ludger, Bishop
ST. LUDGER was born in Friesland (northern Netherlands) about the year 743. His father, a nobleman of the first rank,…
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St. Simon, Martyr
“HAIL, flowers of the martyrs!” the Church sings in her Office of the Holy Innocents, who were the first to…