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Calendarium Romanum Generale
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Sancti Petri Claver, presbyteri (ob. 1654) memoria ad libitum
Saint Peter Claver (1581–1654) was a Catalan Jesuit priest who, at his solemn profession, bound himself by vow as "the slave of the Africans forever" and spent forty-four years in the slave port of Cartagena de Indias meeting the ships of the Middle Passage with food, medicine,…
Etiam celebrati
Martyrologium Romanum (2004)
Sancti
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Sancte Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (ob. 546)
Saint Ciarán of Clonmacnoise (c. 516 – 9 September 546), called Ciarán mac an tSaeir, "son of the carpenter," and Ciarán the Younger to distinguish him from Ciarán of Saigir, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland and the founder and first abbot of the great monastery of…
Beati
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Beate Jacques-Désiré Laval (ob. 1864)
Blessed Jacques-Désiré Laval (18 September 1803 – 9 September 1864) was a Norman physician who left medicine and a comfortable, worldly life for the priesthood, saying, "As a priest I shall be able to do more for the good of my neighbour." A Spiritan missionary, he spent the…
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Beate Pierre Bonhomme (ob. 1861)
Blessed Pierre Bonhomme (4 July 1803 – 9 September 1861) was a French priest of the Diocese of Cahors, born and buried in Gramat, who founded the Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of Calvary. A tireless preacher formed by the Beatitudes and the Passion, and devoted to Our…
Memoriae additiciae
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Sancti
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Sancte Aelrhiw (ob. incertum)
Saint Aelrhiw is a Welsh saint of the sixth century, honoured on the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, where the village of Y Rhiw preserves his name in its church and in its holy spring, Ffynnon Aelrhiw. He belongs to that generation of Welsh holy men who planted the Gospel in small…
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Sancte Audomar (ob. 670)
Saint Audomar, better known as Saint Omer (c. 595/600 – c. 667–670), was a monk of Luxeuil who became the first bishop of Thérouanne and the apostle of the Morini, a people who had all but lost the faith. Sending Mommolin, Bertin and Ebertram into the marshes of the Aa and…
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Sancte Wulfhild (ob. 1000)
Saint Wulfhild of Barking (c. 940 – after 996), also called Wulfhilda or Wulfilda, was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine nun raised at Wilton Abbey who guarded her virginity against the courtship of King Edgar the Peaceful and was afterwards made abbess of Barking in Essex and founder…
Beati
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Beate Alanus de Rupe (ob. 1475)
Blessed Alan de la Roche (Alanus de Rupe), born in Brittany about 1428 and died at Zwolle on 8 September 1475, was a Dominican friar, priest, theologian and mystic whose whole life became one great preaching of the Psalter of the Blessed Virgin — the Rosary. Master of Sacred…
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Beate Emma Üffing (ob. 1955)
Blessed Maria Euthymia Üffing (born Emma Üffing, 8 April 1914 – 9 September 1955) was a German Sister of Mercy of Münster, a nurse who spent the Second World War caring for prisoners of war and foreign laborers in the isolation ward of St. Vincent's Hospital in Dinslaken, where…
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Beate Maria Torribia (ob. 1175)
Blessed María Toribia (died about 1175), known throughout Spain as Santa María de la Cabeza, was a poor countrywoman of the Jarama valley and the wife of Saint Isidore the Laborer. Sharing her husband's hard fieldwork, unfailing charity to the hungry, and love of the Blessed…
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Beate Alexandrina of Balazar
Anima victima
Blessed Alexandrina Maria da Costa (1904–1955), known as Alexandrina of Balazar, was a Portuguese mystic, Salesian Cooperator, and victim soul who offered decades of paralysis and suffering for the conversion of sinne…
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Sancte Angela of Foligno
Contemplativus
Saint Angela of Foligno (1248–1309), Franciscan tertiary and mystic called the Mistress of Theologians, turned from a worldly life to radical penance, poverty, and charity after visions of Saint Francis and the Crucif…
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Beate Anna Maria Taigi
Blessed Anna Maria Taigi (née Giannetti; 29 May 1769 – 9 June 1837) was a Roman wife, mother of seven, and Secular Trinitarian whose ordinary household became a school of heroic patience, charity, and mystical union w…
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Beate Anne Catherine Emmerich
Stigmata
Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (1774–1824) was a German Augustinian canoness, mystic, Marian visionary, and stigmatist whose life of hidden suffering, prayer, and love of Christ drew the poor and the learned alike. B…
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Sancte Bernadette Soubirous
Visiones
Saint Bernadette Soubirous (1844–1879), the humble miller's daughter of Lourdes, received eighteen apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary at the grotto of Massabielle and became the messenger of the Immaculate Concept…
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Sancte Sanctæ Brigittæ
Visiones
Saint Bridget of Sweden, OSsS (c. 1304 – 23 July 1373), also known as Birgitta Birgersdotter and Birgitta of Vadstena, was a Swedish Catholic mystic and the founder of the Bridgettines. Outside Sweden she was known as…
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Sancte Catherine Labouré
Visiones
Saint Catherine Labouré (1806–1876), a Daughter of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, received the apparitions of the Immaculate Virgin that gave the Church the Miraculous Medal. In lifelong humility and silence she se…
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Sancte Catherine of Genoa
Contemplativus
Saint Catherine of Genoa (Caterina Fieschi Adorno), born 5 April 1447, was a noble Genoese mystic, wife, hospital director, and author whose conversion filled her with God's love and the resolve "No more world, no mor…
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Sancte Sanctæ Catharinæ Senensis
Contemplativus
Saint Catherine of Siena (Caterina Benincasa), Dominican tertiary, virgin, and Doctor of the Church, was born in Siena on 25 March 1347 and died in Rome on 29 April 1380. From childhood visions and a vow of virginity…
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Beate Concepción Cabrera de Armida
Blessed Concepción Cabrera de Armida (Conchita), Mexican wife, mother of nine, widow, mystic, and writer (1862–1937), lived the call to save souls through union with Christ crucified and the Trinity. She inspired the…
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Beate Dina Bélanger
Contemplativus
Blessed Dina Bélanger (1897–1929), in religion Marie of Saint Cecilia of Rome, was a Canadian Religious of Jesus and Mary, gifted pianist, teacher, and mystic whose life was marked by generous charity, Eucharistic lov…
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Beate Elena Aiello
Stigmata
Blessed Elena Aiello (1895–1961) was an Italian religious foundress, mystic, and stigmatist who united deep love of Christ's Passion with tireless care for abandoned children and the poor. Forged by illness, Eucharist…
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Sancte Elizabeth of the Trinity
Contemplativus
Saint Elizabeth of the Trinity (Élisabeth Catez, 1880–1906) was a French Discalced Carmelite mystic and spiritual writer whose short life centered on the indwelling of the Most Holy Trinity and on becoming a living "p…
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Sancte Sanctæ Faustinæ Kowalska
Visiones
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska (Helena Kowalska, 25 August 1905 – 5 October 1938), a Polish Sister of Our Lady of Mercy, is venerated as the Apostle and secretary of Divine Mercy. Through visions of Jesus she received…
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Sancte Sancti Francisci Assisiensis
Stigmata
Saint Francis of Assisi (c. 1181–3 October 1226), the Poverello of Umbria, founded the Order of Friars Minor, the Poor Clares, and the Third Order of Penance, living the Gospel in absolute poverty, fraternal love, and…
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Sancte Gemma Galgani
Stigmata · Anima victima
Saint Gemma Galgani (1878–1903), the "daughter of the Passion" of Lucca, was an Italian mystic who bore the stigmata and united her sufferings to Christ crucified. Orphaned young, refused religious life yet wholly con…
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Sancte Sanctæ Gertrudis
Contemplativus
Saint Gertrude the Great (1256–1301/1302), Benedictine virgin and mystic of Helfta, was raised from childhood in the monastery and became one of the great contemplatives of the thirteenth century. After a decisive vis…
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Sancte Sanctæ Hildegardis Bingensis
Contemplativus · Visiones
Saint Hildegard of Bingen (c. 1098–17 September 1179), Benedictine abbess and Doctor of the Church, was the Sibyl of the Rhine: mystic, visionary, composer, and teacher who wrote what she saw in the living Light of Go…
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Sancte Sancti Ioannis Mariæ Vianney
Saint John Mary Vianney (Jean-Marie Vianney), born 8 May 1786 at Dardilly near Lyon and known as the Curé d'Ars, was a French parish priest whose more than forty years of preaching, penance, catechesis, and tireless m…
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Sancte Sancti Ioannis a Cruce
Contemplativus
Saint John of the Cross (Juan de Yepes y Álvarez), priest, Carmelite reformer, and Doctor of the Church, was born 24 June 1542 at Fontiveros near Ávila and died 14 December 1591. With Saint Teresa of Jesus he founded…
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Beate Julian of Norwich
Contemplativus · Visiones
Blessed Julian of Norwich (c. 1342/1343 – after 1416), also called Juliana, Dame Julian, or Mother Julian, was a medieval English Catholic anchoress whose Revelations of Divine Love are the earliest surviving English-…
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Sancte Lidwina
Anima victima
Saint Lidwina of Schiedam (1380–1433) was a Dutch mystic and virgin who, after a fall while ice skating at fifteen, offered nearly four decades of extreme bodily suffering in union with Christ's Passion. Renowned for…
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Sancte Sancti Ludovici Mariæ Grignion de Montfort
Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort (1673–1716) was a French priest, apostolic missionary, and master of Marian spirituality whose total consecration to Jesus through Mary shaped the Church and inspired the motto T…
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Serve Dei Ludovica Lateau
Stigmata · Anima victima
Anne-Louise Lateau (1850–1883) of Bois-d'Haine, Belgium, a poor worker and Franciscan tertiary, received the stigmata in 1868; the wounds returned every Friday until her death. She was known for Friday ecstasies and c…
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Sancte Sanctæ Margaritæ Mariæ Alacoque
Visiones
Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–1690), Visitation nun of Paray-le-Monial, was the humble mystic chosen by Christ to spread modern devotion to His Sacred Heart. Amid ridicule, penance, and long obedience, she receiv…
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Beate Maria Bolognesi
Stigmata
Blessed Maria Bolognesi (1924–1980) was an Italian lay mystic of Bosaro near Rovigo, marked from childhood by extreme poverty, family hardship, and a total consecration to the Lord and Our Lady. She united long years…
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Beate Maria Pierina De Micheli
Visiones
Blessed Maria Pierina De Micheli (1890–1945), born Giuseppina in Milan, was a Daughter of the Immaculate Conception who served as superior in Italy and Argentina and became the principal promoter of modern devotion to…
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Sancte Mariam Baouardy
Stigmata
Saint Mariam Baouardy (Mary of Jesus Crucified), Melkite Discalced Carmelite of the Holy Land (1846–1878), was a humble Arab mystic marked by the Cross from childhood. Orphaned young, nearly slain for refusing marriag…
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Sancte Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ
Saint Mary Magdalene, also called Mary of Magdala, was a devoted disciple of Jesus whom he freed from seven demons. She accompanied him, ministered to him from her means, stood faithful at the Cross, witnessed his bur…
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Sancte Sanctæ Mariæ Magdalenæ de' Pazzi
Stigmata
Saint Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi (born Caterina Lucrezia, 2 April 1566 – 25 May 1607) was a Florentine Carmelite nun and mystic whose brief life burned with prayer, ecstatic union with God, and heroic suffering for the…
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Sancte Sancti Pauli a Cruce
Contemplativus
Saint Paul of the Cross (Paolo Francesco Danei), born at Ovada on 3 January 1694 and dying in Rome on 18 October 1775, was a mystic priest who founded the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ, the Passionists.…
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Sancte S. Pii de Pietrelcina
Stigmata
Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, born Francesco Forgione on 25 May 1887 in Pietrelcina to Grazio Forgione and Maria Giuseppa De Nunzio, was an Italian Capuchin priest and mystic who entered the Order of Friars Minor Capuchi…
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Sancte Sanctæ Ritæ de Cascia
Saint Rita of Cascia (Margherita Lotti), born at Roccaporena in Umbria and died at the Augustinian monastery of Cascia, is the humble widow and religious known as the Saint of the Impossible and advocate of desperate…
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Sancte Sancti Sarbelii Makhluf
Contemplativus
Saint Sharbel Makhluf, born Youssef Antoun Makhlouf in 1828 in Beqaa Kafra, Lebanon, was a Maronite monk and priest of the Lebanese Maronite Order who embraced an austere eremitical life at the hermitage of Saints Pet…
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Sancte Sanctæ Teresiæ Benedictæ a Cruce
Contemplativus
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein), virgin and martyr, was a brilliant Jewish-born philosopher who sought truth, found Christ in the Cross, and offered her life as a Discalced Carmelite. Baptized in 192…
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Sancte Sanctæ Teresiæ de Avila
Contemplativus
Saint Teresa of Jesus (Teresa of Ávila), Virgin and Doctor of the Church, was born in Ávila on 28 March 1515 and died at Alba de Tormes on 4 October 1582. A Carmelite reformer, mystic, and foundress of the Discalced C…
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Sancte Sanctæ Teresiæ a Iesu Infante
Contemplativus
Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face (1873–1897), Carmelite of Lisieux and Doctor of the Church, lived a hidden life of spiritual childhood and total trust in God's merciful love. Through her "little way…
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Sancte Veronica Giuliani
Stigmata
Saint Veronica Giuliani was an extraordinary Capuchin Poor Clare mystic and stigmatist whose life was a perfect configuration to the Passion of Jesus Christ. Renowned for her profound humility, heroic obedience, and d…
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