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Adeodato di S. Pietro
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The Rev. Father Adeodatus of St. Peter, after being ordained a priest on July 31, 1927, left for India a few weeks later. He arrived at Carmel Hill Monastery, Trivandrum, on November 1, 1927. As a ...
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Agostino Maria del SS.mo Sac…
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Hermann Cohen born in Hamburg, Germany, on November 10, 1820, to an old Jewish family, showed an extraordinary talent for the piano from the age of four. In 1833, at the age of twelve, he left German...
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Aloisio Maria Benziger (vesc…
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Aloysius Benziger was born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, on 31st of January 1864 as the fourth child and second son of Johannes Adelrich Benziger and Anna Maria Koch von Boswayal. The Benziger family b...
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Anastasio Alberto Ballestrer…
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Anastasio Ballestrero was born in Genoa on October 3, 1913, the first of five children of Giacomo Ballestrero and Antonietta Daffunchio. He entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites. On 6th of June 1...
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Caterina di Cristo
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Catalina of Christ was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres (Spain) on October 28, 1544, to deeply Christian parents: Cristoforo and Giovanna de Bustamante y Sanmartín, of noble descent. Third of four...
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Cunegonda Siwiec
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Kunegunda Siwiec was born in Siwcowka, diocese of Krakow, in 1876, the ninth of ten children of the Siwiec family. She was called by all by the diminutive of Kundusia. She breathed in the seren...
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Domenico di Gesù Maria
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Dominic of Jesus Mary was born on May 16, 1559 in Calatayud (Spain), the son of Miguel de Ruzola, a notary, and Jerónima López. He received the Carmelite habit in Zaragoza on 24th of May 1572 and was...
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Firmino della Natività
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Firmino of the Nativity was born in Amiens (France) on August 31, 1759. He entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites and was ordained a priest. He supported a bitter struggle for the defence of the C...
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Francesco di Gesù
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Francis of Jesus was born in Los Hinojosos (Cuenca - Spain) on October 4, 1529; around the age of 12, he was adopted by the knight Juan Molina and taken to Ubeda. Around the age of fifteen years, he ...
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Francesco di San Giuseppe
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Franciszek was born in Warsaw on 3 December 1917. In 1935, he got his Diploma in Grammar School classics and he began to study and work in his father’s tailor shop. On 13 March 1944 he entered the N...
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Gerardo di Santo Stefano Re
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Gerard of St Stephen the King was born in the village of Đurđin in Bač to his parents Jose Stantić and Đula (Julije) Jagić. He was admitted to the Carmelites in Graz on 9th September 1896 and on 11 Se...
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Giacomo di Gesù
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Lucien Louis Bunel, in religion Father Jacques of Jesus, was born in Barentin (France) on January 29, 1900 and died in Linz (Austria) on 2nd of June, 1945. At a very early age, Lucien Bunel decided t...
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Gioacchino di Regina Pacis
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Joachim of the Queen of Peace was born in Sassello, Province of Savona, Italy, on February 12, 1890, to Giacomo Ramognino and Caterina Badano. He was baptized with the name of James Peter. The father ...
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Giovanni Antonio Guadagni (c…
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Giovanni Antonio was born in Florence on September 14, 1674, the only son of the Marquis Donato Guadagni and his wife Maddalena, née Corsini, sister of the future Pope Clement XII. On the 3rd of May ...
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Jean Thierry (Ebogo) di Gesù…
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Jean Thierry was born on February 4, 1982 and travelled Cameroon from one end to the other, following his father, who for work reasons had to change residence every two or three years. An inseparable...
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Lelia Cossidente
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Lelia Cossidente was born in Potenza on the 4th of May, 1893. She followed the family who moved to Rome in 1904. In 1913 she obtained her normal license, taught in an elementary school in the San Lor...
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Marcello dell’Immacolata
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Carlo Zucchetti, was born in Vighignolo, a hamlet of Settimo Milanese (Ml), Italy, on November 29, 1914 at half past four in the morning, the second son of the four children of Giulio and Luigia Zucch...
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Margherita Maria del Cuore E…
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Margaret Mary was born in Cocentaina, diocese of Valencia (Spain) on March 16, 1908 and was baptized on the 25th of that month in the parish of Santa María. At the age of 8 she made her first communio...
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Maria Adelaide di Santa Tere…
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Joan Adelaide O'Sullivan Rouley was born in New York on October 8, 1817 to an Anglican father and a Catholic mother. She was baptized in the Anglican Church. Four years after, the young girl decided ...
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Maria Cristina di Gesù Sacra…
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Maria Christina was born and baptized in Seville (Spain) in July 1890. Her parents were called José and Elisa. The date of her first communion is unknown. On 24 January 1921, Cristina entered the con...
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Maria della Concezione di Sa…
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Maria of the Conception was born on April 25, 1905 in Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). She had everything you could want: wealth, comfort, influence in society... passionate about reading...
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Maria Eletta di Gesù
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She was born in Terni, Italy, on the 28th of January 1605, the third daughter of the nobleman Alessandro. At the age of twenty-one, together with her sister Lucia, she entered the recently founded mo...
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Maria Giuseppe di Gesù (Hono…
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Honorina de Abreu was born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on February 18, 1882. She lost her mother at the age of 9. Young, beautiful and intelligent, Honorina shone in Rio in the society of that time! B...
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Maria Immacolata della SS. T…
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Maria Giselda Villela was born in 1909, in Maria da Fé, MG, Brazil. Fiery and restless, intelligent and stubborn, she wanted to mount a wild horse, which caused her to fall off onto the ground and, ...
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Maria Isabella dell’Amore Mi…
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María Isabel Zapata de Calatayud was born in Gandía (Valencia), Spain, on December 27, 1907. She lost her mother at the age of three and her father two years later. The Christian formation received ...
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Martiri coreane (Maria Matil…
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SISTER THERESE OF THE INFANT JESUS (IRENE BASTIN) Irene Bastin was born on 5 July 1901 at Saint Vinvent in Luxembourg. Her family was Christian. At the outbreak of the First World War both h...
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Martiri di Santander (Atanas…
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Atanasio del Sacro Cuore (Gregorio Aguinagalde Aguirreche) 1870-1936; Ruperto della Croce (Ruperto Andueza Larraya) 1897-1936; Massimino della Vergine del Carmelo (Maximino Sáez Martínez) 19...
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Martiri di Segorbe-Castellon…
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Andrea Corsini della Vergine del Pilar (Miguel Palomar Martín) 1887-1936; Fernando di S. Teresa (Mariano Górriz Martínez) 1882-1936; Eusebio di Gesù (Eusebio Galindo Zurdo) 1887-1936; Edoardo della Ve...
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Mercedes di Santa Teresina
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Mercedes was born in Tunja (Boyacá), Colombia, on November 18, 1930. At the age of 22 she entered the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Villa de Leyva, receiving the name of Mary Celine of...
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Pedro della Madre di Dio
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Peter of the Mother of God was born in Daroca (Zaragoza ─ Spain) in 1565. He made his profession in Pastrana on 23rd of January 1583 and around 1590, still a deacon, he was sent to Italy as a compani...
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Raffaele Carlo Rossi (cardin…
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Raffaele Carlo Rossi was born in Pisa on October 28, 1876. Soon his parents separated, leaving in him a deep nostalgia that was reflected throughout his life. However, he maintained contact with both...
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Rodolfo della Trasverberazio…
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Rudolf of the Transverberation was born on November 14, 1919 in Bachowice, (Poland) not far from Wadowice, in the archdiocese of Krakow, into a practicing and farming family. He completed his middle-...
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Rufino della Vergine del Car…
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Rufino was born in Villaveta Zazpe Zabalza (Navarre), Spain, on November 16, 1891. Fleeing the wars of his time, he emigrated to Chile in 1913. In the same year he joined the Discalced Carmelites of...
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Salvatore del Cuore Immacola…
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Salvador Riviera Garcia was born in Salvatierra, Guanajuato (Mexico) on June 27, 1934. Like everyone else, he was a lively and playful child, but also very intelligent and willing to help. As a boy, ...
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Teresa Camilla di Gesù Bambi…
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Thérèse Camille of the Child Jesus was born in France in 1757, the daughter of the Marquis de Soyécourt. At the age of 16 she decided to enter a monastery, but had to face opposition from her parents...
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Teresa di Gesù (Gimma)
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Teresa Gimma was born in Bari (Italy) on March 10, 1880. To her parents, saddened by the loss of two children, she gave new joy and new hope. She was given the name Teresa. At the age of 18 she asked...
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Teresa di Gesù (Marchocka)
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Marianna Marchocka was born on 25 June 1603 in Stroze (Poland), the second of three children of Paul and Elizabeth Marchockiego of Modrzejewskich. Despite the opposition of her parents, under the inf...
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Ulisse Amendolagine
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Ulisse Amendolagine was born in Salerno (Italy) on 14 May 1893 to Leonardo, an official of the Ministry of the Interior, and Nunzia Minutillo. He was baptized exactly one month later with the names of...
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Víctor Rodríguez Martínez
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Víctor Rodriguez was born on April 12, 1925 in Quintanadiez de la Vega (Palencia, Spain), into a solidly Christian family. At the age of two he had an experience of grace that marked his whole life...
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