Tag: Prayer
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St Thomas Villanova
Featured Saint: St Thomas Villanova (1488 – 1555) St Thomas Villanova was born into a relatively wealthy Catholic family at Fuentellana, Spain. His childhood was greatly influenced by his parent’s generosity to the poor through their regular distribution of food and clothing. At 16, a gifted student, he went to University and studied fine arts and…
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St Peter Claver
Featured Saint: St Peter Claver (1581 – 1654) St Peter Claver was born into a devout Catholic farming family at Verdu, Spain. He received a good education and excelled in his studies, obtaining a degree from the University of Barcelona. At 20, St Peter joined the Jesuits where he met St Alphonsus Rodriguez who encouraged him…
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Birth Of The Blessed Virgin Mary
Feast Day: Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Today we celebrate the day on which the Blessed Virgin Mary was born. Mary is traditionally believed to have been born in Jerusalem. Her parents were St Joachim and St Anne. Like all new parents, Mary’s birth would have been a very joyous occasion for her parents…
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Blessed Claudio Granzotto
Featured: Blessed Claudio Granzotto (1900 – 1947) Blessed Claudio was born into a poor peasant and devout Catholic family at Santa Lucia di Piave, Italy. From a very young age he helped in the family fields and perhaps more so, after his father’s death in 1909. When World War I broke out, Blessed Claudio was drafted…
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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Featured: Blessed Teresa of Calcutta (1910 – 1997) Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, the Republic of Macedonia, to Albanian parents. Following her father’s death at 8yrs, she was raised by her mother, a Roman Catholic. At 18 she joined the Sisters of Loreto and briefly studied English at Loreto Abbey, Ireland. In 1929 she…
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St Cuthbert
Featured Saint: St Cuthbert (Approx. 634 – 687) St Cuthbert was born into a noble family near Melrose Abbey, Northumbria, on the Scottish borders. Following a vision at the age of 17yrs, the day St Aidan (founder of Lindisfarne) died, he decided to become a Monk. St Cuthbert was appointed Guest Master at a newly established…
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Pope St Gregory The Great
Featured Saint: Pope St Gregory the Great (540ca – 604) Pope St Gregory was born into a wealthy family in Rome. His father was Senator and Prefect of the City of Rome. He lived his youth at a time of great turmoil including famine, rioting and panic, resulting from plague which wiped out one third of…
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Blessed John Francis & Companions
Featured: Blessed John Francis Burte & Companions Blessed John Burte was one of as many as 191 Bishops, Priests, Religious and other secular victims, martyred during the French Revolution. Their deaths became known as the September Carmelite Massacre of 1792. All were imprisoned in a Church attached to a Carmelite Monastery in Paris for refusing to…
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St Giles
Featured Saint: St Giles (ca 650 – 710) St Giles was born in Athens, Greece. He lived as a hermit in various retreat centers in Southern France. Although legend links him with Arles, he withdrew deep into the forest near Nimes and spent many years in solitude and prayer, living on a vegetarian diet and…