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Anselmo di Sant'Andrea Corsi…
Servants of God
Maciej was born on 24 February 1884 in Marszowice, a parish of Niegowić, in the archdiocese of Kraków (Poland) into a deeply religious and numerous family, the son of Antonio and Salomea Kowalska. In ...
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Chiara Maria di Gesù
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Clare of Carmel was born in San Miguel, El Salvador, on October 12, 1857 to Carmen López and Daniel Quirós López. Her parents decided to consult the saints to choose the name of their daughter and dis...
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Colomba di Gesù Ostia
Venerables
The Servant of God, Colomba of Jesus in the Host (Anna Antonietta Mezzacapo) was born in Marcianise (Caserta, Italy) on June 15, 1914. Raised in a Christian family environment and taking part in par...
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Elisabetta della Beata Vergi…
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ELISWA (ELIZABETH VAKAYIL) Eliswa was born in October 1832. She was the eldest of eight in a rich religious family from Vypussery (name of family residence) in Ochanthuruth. At the age o...
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Emile Biayenda
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Emile Biayenda was born in Mpangala, Uganda, in 1927. He was ordained a priest in 1958 in Brazzaville and immediately appointed parish priest. He was imprisoned for a few months because of his partic...
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Enrico de Ossó y Cervelló
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Enrico de Ossó y Cervelló, a Catalan priest, was born in Vinebre (diocese of Tortosa, province of Tarragona ─ Spain) on October 16, 1840. From his seminary years he proved to be a «brilliant catechi...
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Francesco di Gesù Maria Gius…
Blessed
Francis Palau was born on 29th of December 1811 in Aytona (Spain). In 1828, he entered the seminary of Lèrida. After completing the three years of philosophical studies and finishing the first course...
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Giorgio Häfner - Luigi dei S…
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BLESSED GEORG HAFNER George Hafner was born on 19 October 1900 in Wurzburg, Bavaria. His parents, Valentin and Barbara Hewig Ulsamer, were simple, humble and believing Christians who brought ...
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Giovanna Maria Condesa Lluch
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BLESSED GIOVANNA MARIA CONDESA LLUCH Giovanna Maria Condesa Lluch was born in Valencia, Spain on 30 March 1862. When only 18, she discovered that God’s will for her was to dedicate hersel...
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Giovanni della Croce
Saints
John was born in in 1542 in Fontiveros near Avila, a village in Old Spanish Castile. His father Gonzalo de Yepes was thrown out of his home and disinherited for marrying a poor silk weaver, Catalina Á...
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Giuseppe Mazzanti
Servants of God
Joseph Mazzanti was born in Imola, Bologna, (Italy) on June 3rd, 1879. A priest, born, raised and died in his beloved Imola, he lived passionately what was ordinary in his life and who could still sa...
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Immacolato Giuseppe di Gesù
Venerables
The Venerable Servant of God Immaculato Joseph of Jesus (Aldo Brienza) was born on August 15, 1922, in Campobasso (Italy). At the age of sixteen, while attending the Higher Technical Institute...
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Isabella Morfini
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Bina (as every one called her) was the eldest of nine sisters and brothers. As both their mother and grandmother were ill, Bina acted as mother to all the family. Very early on she joined the A...
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Isidoro della Natività della…
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The lay brother, Isidore of the Nativity of Mary (Giacomo Antonio Sciuti) was born in Carpeneto, in the province of Alessandria, Italy, on 8th of July 1696. At the end of the period of formation in ...
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Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (V…
Blessed
Juan de Palfox y Mendoza was born in Fitero (Navarre), Spain, on June 24, 1600, and was baptized on June 29, the feast of St. Peter, to whom he was always to have a special devotion. In 1610 for hi...
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Maria degli Angeli (Operti)
Venerables
Giuseppina Operti was born in Turin (Italy) on November 16, 1871 into a wealthy family. She was tested by the death of her brother and father within three months. Together with her mother, she gave h...
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Maria Eugenio di Gesù Bambin…
Blessed
Henri Grialou (his secular name) was born into a modest mining family in Aveyron, in central France. Attracted by God from an early age, he wanted to be a priest. In the minor seminary he discovered t...
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Maria Luisa Giuseppa del SS…
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Maria Luisa de la Peña Navarro was born on June 21, 1866 in Atotonilco El Alto (Jalisco), Mexico, into a family of wealthy landowners, of good manners and very charitable. At the age of 15, in an arr...
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Maria Mercede del Cuore di G…
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Nacque a Barcellona il 6 marzo 1880, in una famiglia cristiana, un fratello era un sacerdote. Frequentò sin da piccola le religiose della Compagnia di s. Teresa dove nella loro Casa-madre ricevette l...
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Maria Teresa della SS. Trini…
Servants of God
Maria Teresa de Jesus Anastasia Cayetana was born in Guatemala City on April 15, 1784, into the bosom of a wealthy family. She distributed all her possessions to follow Jesus in the consecrated life ...
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Maria Teresa della SS. Trini…
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Teresa Ysseldijk was born on November 13, 1897, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, the daughter of a Catholic family full of faith. After a stay of 6 years in Ochtrup, Germany, where her father died, she ...
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Maria Teresa di San Giuseppe…
Venerables
Janina Kierocińska was born on 14th of June 1885 in Wieluń (Poland) into a large family of deeply religious landowners. She was baptized on June 21, 1885. Already on the day of her First Communion, Ju...
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Maria Teresa di San Giuseppe…
Blessed
Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch was born on 19th of June 1855 in Sandow, Brandenburg, (then in Germany, now in Poland), to deeply believing Lutheran parents. Her father was a pastor of the Evangeli...
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Maria Veronica della Passion…
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Sophie Leeves was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) on October 1st, 1823. Her father was the Anglican chaplain of the British Embassy. During adolescence a profound change took place in her. She ...
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Maria Zanelli
Servants of God
Antonietta Zanelli was born in Castel Guelfo (Italy) on June 17, 1887. Born into a wealthy family, her father was the pharmacist of the village and her mother, Countess Maria Acquaderni, was the siste...
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Pura Rosa del Carmen Olmos
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The Servant of God Pura Rose of Carmel Olmos Professed Religious of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa of Jesus (Arg.) Secundina G...
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Rosa di San Giuseppe
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Rosa Ojeda y Creus was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú on August 30, 1871 into a poor family. In 1877, following the death of her parents, she and her two siblings were taken in by their maternal grand...
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Saturnina del Cuore Agonizza…
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Saturnina Jassá y Fontcuberta was born in Spain on March 3, 1851 in Calaceite, an Aragonese municipality then belonging to the diocese of Tortosa in the province of Teruel. After a normal childhood ...
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Teresa del Cuore Immacolato …
Venerables
Teresa Toda y Guasch was born in Riudecanyes (Spain) on May 28, 1848 and was baptized the next day in the parish of her hometown. On July 8, Antonio Guasch, her father, who had already left home, vio...
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Teresa di Gesù Bambino di Pr…
Venerables
Teresa Mira García was born in Algueña, Alicante - Spain on September 26, 1895. Daughter of José and Teresa, she was the second of nine children. To receive Jesus in her First Communion she establish...
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Teresa di S. Rosa da Lima
Servants of God
Teresa of St. Rose of Lima was born on 29th of January 1858 in George Town, Madras, India, to Peter D'Lima and Mary D'Lima. She received the name Mary Grace on baptism in St. Mary's Co-Cathedral, two ...
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Teresa di San Giuseppe (Toda…
Venerables
Teresa Toda y Juncosa was born in Riudecanyes, Tarragona (Spain) on August 19, 1826. When she was only 13 years old, her father died. Like the girls of her time, in her youth Teresa did not attend sch...
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Teresa Maria della Croce (Ma…
Blessed
Teresa Adelaide Cesina Manetti, was born in Campi Bisenzio, in the then hamlet of San Martino, to Gaetano Manaetti (a poultry farmer) and Rosa Bigagli, on March 2, 1846. At the age of three she lost ...
