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Anita Cantieri
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Anita Cantieri was born in Lucca (Italy) on March 30, 1910. Her parents, Davino and Annunziata, were countrypeople of modest means; they had 12 children. Shortly after her birth on April 3rd, she was...
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Anna di S. Agostino
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Anna of St Augustine was born in Valladolid on the 11th of December, 1555. In 1577 she was accepted at the Carmelite monastery of Malagon (Spain) where in 1578 she made her solemn profession. F...
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Antonio Augusto Intreccialag…
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Augusto Intreccialagli was born in Montecompatri (Italy) on February 18th, 1852. He entered the novitiate of the Roman Province of the Discalced Carmelites in 1868 and was ordained a priest on May ...
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Aureliano del SS. Sacramento
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Aureliano of the Most Blessed Sacrament was born on June 27, 1887 in San Miguel de Basauri (Vizcaya – Spain). At the age of fifteen he entered the novitiate of the Discalced Carmelites in Larrea and ...
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Balbino del Carmelo
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Balbino of Carmel was born on March 7, 1865 in Fresno, a province of Avila (Spain) to Lorenzo Sánchez and Balbina Mayorga. Two days after his birth he was baptized with the names of Ildefonso-Thomas. ...
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Benigno di S. Teresa di Gesù…
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Fr. Benignus of St Therese of the Child Jesus (Angelo Calvi), from the family and from the parish of the same name in Italy, had a strong and joyful education in the faith, founded on a great love for...
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Chiara Maria della Passione
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Chiara Maria of the Passion was born in Orsogna (Chieti - Italy) on 11 April 1610 to Filippo Colonna, Duke of Paliano, and Lucrezia Tomacelli. The name given to her in baptism was Giovanna Vittoria. ...
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Francesco di Gesù Bambino
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Francis of the Child Jesus was born in Villapalacios (Albacete - Spain) in 1544 and spent a youth full of hardships as a shepherd. At the age of twenty he moved to Alcalá de Henares, where he entered...
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Giovanni di Gesù Maria (Gala…
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John of Jesus Mary was born in the town of Calahorra in Spain on January 27, 1564 to Diego de San Pedro and Anna De Ustarroz. At the university of Alcalà de Henares, together with studies in philosop...
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Giovanni Vincenzo di Gesù Ma…
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John Vincent of Jesus Mary was born in Bérriz (Vizcaya – northern Spain) in 1862. Of noble and austere Basque lineage of soldiers, educated in a family full of affection, while still a boy he broke a...
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Maddalena di San Giuseppe
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Magdalene of St Joseph was born in Paris, to a Turonese family, on May 17, 1578, the sixth of fifteen children. She grew up in Paris and Tours, where, in 1603, she met Pierre de Bérulle who wanted and...
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Marcello della Vergine del C…
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Marcellus of the Virgin of Carmel was born in Kiskomárom (now Zalakomár), Hungary, on September 9, 1887. At the age of 38 he left everything to enter Carmel definitively. After his ordination he was ...
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Margherita del SS. Sacrament…
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Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament was born in Beaune, France, on February 7, 1619. Her parents, Pierre Parigot and Jeanne Battaille, were both middle-class influential and wealthy. They very quickly ...
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Maria Antonia di Gesù
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Maria Antonia of Jesus was born in Cuntis, Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), on the 6th of October, 1700. She was educated from an early age to have a deep faith and to work. The sufferi...
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Maria del Carmine della SS T…
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The Venerable Servant of God, Maria Carmen of the Most Holy Trinity (Civil name: Carmen Caterina Bueno) was born in Itu, in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, on November 25, 1898. Her parents were Teotô...
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Maria Lucia del Cuore Immaco…
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Lucia Dos Santos, born in Portugal to a very humble family, was the recipient, together with her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto, of a series of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, in the locality of ...
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Teresa di Sant’Agostino
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Born in Versailles (France) on the 15th of July 1737, she was the daughter of King Louis XV and Maria Leszczynska. In April 1770, with the consent of her father, the King of France, she entered the C...
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Teresa Margherita del Cuore …
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Maria Luisa Resende Marques was born in Brazil on December 24, 1915, in Borda da Mata, in the state of Minas Gerais. She felt she had a religious vocation but her father at first opposed it. She man...
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Zaccaria di S. Teresa
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His name was Zacarias Salterain Bizkarra and he was born in Abadiano (Vizcaya, Spain) on November 4, 1887; he did his first studies at the Jesuit college of Durango in Spain; at the age of 15 he enter...
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