saints
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St. Catherine of Ricci February 13th (in the Old calendar), we celebrate the feast day of Saint Catherine de Ricci (1522 – 1590), Italian Dominican Tertiary nun, mystic, stigmatist, ecstatic, counselor to many in both secular and spiritual matters, a highly admired administrator and advisor, blessed with many mystical charism including visions of Christ, both…
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Blessed Jak Bushati February 12th, we celebrate the feast of Blessed Jak Bushati( 8 August 1890 – 12 February 1949), one of the 38 Martyrs of Albania, imprisoned and tortured to death in the anti–Christian persecutions of the Albanian Communist government and who was beatified by Pope Francis on 5 November 2016. In 1944, Albania…
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Our Lady of Lourdes February 11th, we celebrate the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, recalling a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl, Saint Bernadette Soubirous and today marks the first apparition of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858. Between February 11 and July…
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St. Scholastica Patronage:School; Tests; Books; Reading; Convulsive Children; Nuns; Invoked Against Storms and Rain; Le Mans Saint Scholastica is a saint of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches. Born in Italy, according to a ninth-century tradition, she was the twin sister of Benedict of Nursia. Her feast day is 10 February. St.…
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Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich February 9 we celebrate the feast day of Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich. Blessed Anne Catherine was born in 1774 to a family of poor farmers in a small community near Münster, Germany. A pious child, she received little formal education and when she was twelve years old, she started work at…
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Saint Josephine Bakhita February 8th, we celebrate the feast of Saint Josephine Bakhita ( 1869 – 1947), the first person from Sudan to be canonized, and a Canossian Sister who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Sudan and patron of Sudan and World Day against trafficking persons. She was born around the year 1869…
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Blessed Alfredo Cremonesi February 7th, we celebrate the feast of Blessed Alfredo Cremonesi (15 May 1902 – 7 February 1953), zealous Italian missionary priest and martyr in Burma and missionary of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions (PIME) and beatified by Pope Francis in October 2019. Alfredo Cremonesi was born on 15 May 1902 in…
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February 6th, we celebrate the feast of St. Gonsalo Garcia (1556 – 5 February 1597), a Franciscan lay brother from Portuguese India, who died as a martyr in Japan and is venerated as a saint, one of the Twenty-six Martyrs of Japan. The first Indian born to attain sainthood was born in the western coastal…
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February 5, we celebrate the feast of Saint Agatha of Sicily, Virgin and Martyr of the early Church and one of seven women, who, along with the Blessed Virgin Mary, is commemorated by name in the Canon of the Mass. Born in Sicily, to a wealthy noble family, Agatha consecrated herself at an early age…
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St. John de Britto February 4th, we celebrate the feast of St. John de Britto, also known as Arul Anandar (his Indian title and name) (1647 – 1693), Portuguese Jesuit missionary priest and martyr, preacher and often called “the Portuguese St. Francis Xavier” by Indian Catholics and also called the John the Baptist of India.…
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