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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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Palm Sunday
Lessons without end, at once lofty and hallowing, might be deduced from the triumphant entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem,…
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St. Gontran, King
ST. GONTRAN was the King of Burgundy (present day east-central France) from 561 to 593. Gontran was the second surviving…
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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…
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Sts. Victorian and Others, Martyrs
HUNERIC, the Arian king of the Vandals in Africa, succeeded his father Genseric in 477. He behaved himself at first…
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St. Catharine of Sweden, Virgin
ST. CATHARINE was daughter of Ulpho, Prince of Nericia in Sweden, and of St. Bridget. At seven years of age…
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St. Benedict, Abbot
ST. BENEDICT, blessed by grace and in name, was born of a noble Italian family about 480. When a boy…
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St. Wulfran, Bishop
His father was an officer in the armies of King Dagobert, and the Saint spent some years in the court…