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The Forty Martyrs of Sabaste
THE FORTY MARTYRS were soldiers quartered at Sebaste in Armenia, about the year 320. When their legion was ordered to…
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St. Frances of Rome
FRANCES was born at Rome in 1384. Her parents were, of high rank. They overruled her desire to become a…
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St. John of God
NOTHING in John’s early life foreshadowed his future sanctity. He ran away as a boy from his home in Portugal,…
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St. Thomas Aquinas, the Angelic Doctor
ST. THOMAS was born of noble parents at Aquino in Italy, in 1226. At the age of nineteen he received…
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Sts. Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs
SAINTS Perpetua and Felicity suffered at Carthage, 7 March 203, together with three companions, Revocatus, Saturus, and Saturninus. The account…
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St. Colette, Virgin
AFTER a holy childhood, Colette joined a society of devout women called the Beguines; but not finding their state sufficiently…
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Sts. Adrian and Eubulus, Martyrs
IN the seventh year of Diocletian’s persecution, continued by Galerius Maximianus, when Firmilian, the most bloody governor of Palestine, had…
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St. Casimir, King
CASIMIR, the second son of Casimir III., King of Poland was born A. D. 1458. From the custody of a…
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St. Cunegundes, Empress
ST. CUNEGUNDES was the daughter of Siegfried, the first Count of Luxemburg, and Hadeswige, his pious wife. They instilled into…
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St. Katharine Drexel, Foundress
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. on 26 November 1858, Katharine was the second daughter of Francis Anthony Drexel, a wealthy…