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Saint Bruno

Saint Bruno

The hermit life was his heaven on earth. It allowed him to meditate on God and enjoy “a peace that the world does not know, favourable to the joy of the Holy Spirit”. Before detaching himself from the world, Saint Bruno of Cologne (c. 1030-1101), a doctor of theology and philosophy, had directed the school in Reims for twenty years...


Saint Mary Faustina Kowalska

Saint Mary Faustina Kowalska

“Your great trust in Me compels Me to grant you continuous graces”, she heard Jesus say. He called her “Secretary of My Mercy”. She had visions, hidden stigmata, continuous contact with her guardian angel, Our Lady, the saints and the souls in Purgatory, and the very rare gift of a mystical marriage with God.

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Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Francis of Assisi

Light years away from the insipid and belittled figure that ecology and pacifism have fashioned him into, Saint Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) was a radical witness to the Gospel, to the love of God in the first place, which inspired him to always be the neighbour ready to help anyone with material and spiritual needs.

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Saint Dionysius the Areopagite

Saint Dionysius the Areopagite

The Acts of the Apostles mention Dionysius in the famous passage on Paul's speech at the Areopagus

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Holy Guardian Angels

Holy Guardian Angels

Speaking of the help of angels, the Catechism affirms a comforting truth: From its beginning until the hour of death, human life is surrounded by their protection and intercession” (CCC 336).

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Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus

Saint Teresa of the Child Jesus

If the good Lord grants my wishes, my Heaven will take place on Earth until the end of the world. Yes, I want to spend my Heaven doing good on Earth”, wrote Sister Teresa of the Child Jesus (St Thérèse of Lisieux) (1873-1897) a few months before her death....

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Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome

“To ignore the Scriptures is to ignore Christ,” said Saint Jerome (347-420), one of the most erudite men of his time, to whom all Christianity owes much. Of impetuous character, he vigorously opposed Arianism and all other forms of heresy....

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Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael Archangels

Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael Archangels

Following the reform of the liturgical calendar in 1969, the Church commemorates together the three Archangels on the day that was previously dedicated only to Saint Michael (the feast of Saint Gabriel was 24 March and that of Saint Raphael was 24 October).

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Saint Wenceslas

Saint Wenceslas

The life story of Saint Wenceslas (907-935) is a tangled web. Son of the Duke of Bohemia, he lived in a land where Christianity was beginning to spread thanks to the evangelization of the Slavic peoples initiated a few decades earlier by Saints Cyril and Methodius.

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Saint Vincent de Paul

Saint Vincent de Paul

In Europe torn apart by the spread of Protestantism, Saint Vincent de Paul (c. 1576-1660) was one of the most shining examples of charity working through the Church, so solicitous in helping the poorest and so brilliant that his legacy lives on thanks to the institutes he founded.

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Saints Cosmas and Damian

Saints Cosmas and Damian

They treated the sick without asking for compensation so were nicknamed Anargyroi, a Greek word meaning “without money”.

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Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás

Our Lady of the Rosary of San Nicolás

On 25 September 1983, a mother named Gladys Quiroga de Motta, while praying the Rosary in San Nicolás de los Arroyos (Argentina), saw the Virgin Mary holding the Child Jesus. It was the first of a long series of apparitions.

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