Sancti
Mystici quos Ecclesia memorat propter orationem, unionem cum Christo, et — ubi fontes testantur — gratias extraordinarias.
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Martyrologium Romanum (2004)
Sancti
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Sancte Nicholas of Tolentino (ob. 1305)
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino (1245–10 September 1305), an Augustinian friar and priest, was the fruit of his parents' pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Nicholas of Myra and became one of the great wonderworkers of medieval Italy. For nearly thirty years he preached, heard…
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Sancte Pulcheria (ob. 453)
Aelia Pulcheria (19 January 399 – 453), granddaughter of Theodosius the Great and daughter of the emperor Arcadius, was proclaimed Augusta at fifteen and governed the Eastern Roman Empire beside her young brother Theodosius II, turning the imperial palace into something like a…
Beati
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Beate Apollonia (ob. 249)
Saint Apollonia was a consecrated virgin of Alexandria, held in high esteem by her church, who was seized by a pagan mob in the year 249, during the violent uprising against the Christians that preceded the persecution of Decius. Her tormentors shattered her jaw and struck out…
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Beate Thecla (ob. 100)
Thecla of Iconium, honored from the earliest Christian centuries as "protomartyr among women" and "equal to the apostles," was a noble young virgin of Iconium in Asia Minor who, hearing Paul the Apostle preach chastity and the Gospel of Christ, abandoned her betrothal and her…
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Sancte Agapius of Novara (ob. 440)
Saint Agapius of Novara, known in Italy as Sant'Agabio, was the disciple of Saint Gaudentius and the second bishop of Novara, governing that Church from about the year 417 until his death on 10 September 440. Chosen by Gaudentius himself as his successor, he buried his master…
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Sancte Ambrose Barlow (ob. 1641)
Saint Ambrose Edward Barlow, O.S.B. (1585–10 September 1641), was an English Benedictine priest who for twenty-four years served the hidden Catholics of south Lancashire, celebrating Mass, preaching and feeding the poor at the risk of his life. Renowned for a gentleness and wit…
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Sancte Aubert of Avranches (ob. 725)
Saint Aubert (c. 660–725), bishop of Avranches in Normandy, is venerated as the founder of the abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel. Born of the noble family of the lords of Genêts, he gave away his inheritance to the poor, was elected bishop by acclamation in 704 for his wisdom and…
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Sancte Finnian of Moville (ob. 589)
Saint Finnian of Moville (c. 495–589), also called Uinniau, Winnin, or Finbarr "the white head," was an Irish monk, missionary, abbot, and reputed bishop who founded the great monastery of Movilla in County Down. Trained at Nendrum, at Candida Casa in Whithorn, and in Rome, he…
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Sancte Leo I (ob. 461)
Saint Leo the Great (c. 390–10 November 461), a Roman of Tuscan family, served as Bishop of Rome from 29 September 440 until his death, and is the first pope to whom the Church gave the title "the Great." A tireless shepherd amid famine, heresy and barbarian invasion, he…
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Sancte Mary le confesseur (ob. incertum)
Saint Mary of Mauriac, called in Latin Marius and honoured as "Mary the Confessor," is the hermit-evangelist of the Haute-Auvergne, remembered for a life hidden in a cave near Mont Journal from which the light of his holiness drew a still half-pagan countryside to Christ.…
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Sancte Nemesius of Alexandria (ob. incertum)
Saint Nemesius of Alexandria was an Egyptian martyr who died about the middle of the third century, during the persecution unleashed under the emperor Decius (249–251). Falsely accused first as a thief and then denounced as a Christian, he was tortured twice and burned alive…
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Sancte Otger (ob. 1686)
Saint Otger (Otgerus, Odgerus) was an eighth-century deacon from Northumbria in England who left his homeland to preach Christ in the lands of the Rhine, Waal and Maas, laboring as the faithful companion of the holy bishops Wiro and Plechelm. Around 706, on land given by Pepin…
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Sancte Pavle Morchil (ob. 1301)
Pavle Morchil is venerated as a saint whose memory has been carried forward chiefly in his name and the long span of his years, given in the records as 1201 to 1301. The sources presently available preserve no narrative of his birth, labors, or death, so his Life is written in…
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Sancte Pedro de Mezonzo (ob. 1003)
Saint Pedro de Mezonzo (c. 930–1003), also called Pedro Martínez Exióniz, was a Galician monk, abbot of Sobrado and of San Pelayo de Antealtares, and bishop of Iria Flavia–Santiago de Compostela. Shepherd of his people through the terror of Viking raids and the devastation of…
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Sancte Richard of Saint Ann (ob. 1622)
Blessed Richard of Saint Ann (Lambert Trouvez, 1585–1622) was a Walloon Franciscan Recollect priest and missionary, born at Beignée in Ham-sur-Heure in the Principality of Liège. A tailor's apprentice who traded needle and thread for the habit of Saint Francis, he crossed…
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Sancte Salvius (ob. 584)
Saint Salvius (died 10 September 584), also called Salvi, Sauve or Saint-Salvy, was bishop of Albi in Gaul from about 574 until his death. A trained lawyer and magistrate of a great Gallo-Roman family, he abandoned the world for the monastery, was chosen abbot, lived as a…
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Sancte Sofia of Sicily (ob. 221)
Saint Sofia of Sicily (Byzantium, 192/193 – Pantalica, 18 September 221) was a virgin and martyr who fled her pagan father's house for the sake of Christ, lived as a hermit in the rocky caves of Pantalica near Syracuse, and was beheaded at the age of twenty-nine after…
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Sancte Sosthenes of Chalcedon (ob. 400)
Saint Sosthenes of Chalcedon was a soldier of the imperial army in Bithynia who, ordered to take part in the execution of the virgin martyr Saint Euphemia, refused to raise his hand against her and confessed the Christ whose power he had seen in her constancy. Arrested and…
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Sancte Sébastien Kimura (ob. 1622)
Blessed Sebastian Kimura (1565–10 September 1622) was born at Hirado, grandson of Anthony Kimura, the first Japanese baptized by Saint Francis Xavier, and became the first Japanese to be ordained a Catholic priest, at Nagasaki on 21 September 1601. A Jesuit of tireless zeal, he…
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Sancte Theodard of Maastricht (ob. 670)
Saint Theodard of Maastricht (c. 613/618 – 10 September, c. 670) was a disciple of Saint Remaclus, abbot of the double monastery of Stavelot-Malmedy, and then bishop of Tongeren-Maastricht, remembered by his biographers as a cheerful, tireless shepherd who built and restored…
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Sancte Victor of Chalcedon (ob. 400)
Saint Victor of Chalcedon was a soldier who, together with Saint Sosthenes, was assigned to carry out the martyrdom of the young virgin Saint Euphemia at Chalcedon in the fourth century, and who instead was converted by the sight of her fearless faith and gave his own life for…
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Sancte Émilien of Valence (ob. incertum)
Saint Émilien (Aemilianus) is the first attested bishop of Valence in Gaul, shepherding that young church in the second half of the fourth century. Named at the head of the diocesan lists in the Gallia Christiana, he took part around 360 in the ordination of Saint Marcellinus…
Beati
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Beate 205 Martyrs of Japan (ob. 1617)
The 205 Martyrs of Japan — known in the Church's roll as Blessed Alfonso Navarrete and 204 companions — were priests, religious and lay believers, Japanese, Korean and European, put to death for Christ during the Tokugawa persecutions, chiefly between 1617 and 1632. Among them…
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Beate Alfons de Mena (ob. 1622)
Blessed Alfonso (Alfons) de Mena, born at Logroño in Spain in 1568, was a Dominican priest who spent his life carrying the Gospel to the Far East, founding a Confraternity of the Rosary in Japan and strengthening a hunted Church through years of fierce persecution. Arrested in…
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Venerabilis Bernardo Łubieński (ob. 1933)
Venerable Bernard Łubieński (1846–1933) was a Polish nobleman's son who became a Redemptorist priest in England and then spent half a century preaching missions, retreats, and hearing confessions across the partitioned lands of Poland, where he was a principal restorer of his…
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Beate Dominik Castellet Vinale (ob. 1628)
Blessed Dominic Castellet Vinale (1592–1628), born Francisco Castellet Vinale at Esparreguera in Catalonia, was a Dominican friar who left Spain as a young priest for the missions of the Far East, labouring in the Philippines before slipping into Japan during the fiercest years…
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Beate Francisco Gárate (ob. 1929)
Blessed Francisco Gárate Aranguren (3 February 1857 – 9 September 1929) was a Basque Jesuit brother, born a stone's throw from the house of Saint Ignatius at Loyola, who spent forty-one years as porter and sacristan at the University of Deusto in Bilbao. Nicknamed "Brother…
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Beate Inès Takeya (ob. 1622)
Blessed Inès Takeya (also called Agnes Takeya, イネス竹屋, c. 1580/1587–1622) was a Korean-born laywoman of Nagasaki, carried off to Japan as a slave during the invasions of Korea, who there received the faith of Christ and became a member of the Confraternity of the Rosary. With…
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Beate Jacques Gagnot (ob. 1794)
Blessed Jacques Gagnot, known in religion as Father Hubert of Saint Claude, was born at Frolois in Lorraine on 9 February 1753 and became a priest of the Discalced Carmelites in the house at Nancy. Refusing the oath demanded by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, he was…
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Beate Jan Martínez Cid (ob. 1619)
Blessed Jan (Juan) Martínez Cid, known in religion as John of Saint Dominic, was a Spanish Dominican priest and missionary, born about 1577 at Manzanal de los Infantes and dead in a Japanese prison on 19 March 1619. Having studied at Salamanca and professed among the Friars…
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Beate Józef Negro Maroto (ob. 1622)
Blessed Joseph of Saint Hyacinth Negro Maroto (born 11 March 1580 at Villarejo de Salvanés in Spain; died 10 September 1622 on the hill of Nishizaka at Nagasaki) was a Spanish Dominican priest who volunteered for the missions of the Far East and spent his life preaching the…
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Beate Ludwik Exarch (ob. 1627)
Blessed Louis Bertrand Exarch (1596–1627) was a Catalan Dominican priest who left Barcelona for the missions of the Far East, laboring first in the Philippines and then in the hidden Church of persecuted Japan. Arrested at Nagasaki in 1626, he spent a full year in prison and…
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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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