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Holy Family

Holy Family

The Holy Family fulfils to the highest degree the two commandments of love. Jesus, Mary and Joseph indicate that the family is an image of the Holy Trinity and, to reflect this image, is called to place God at the centre.

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Holy Innocents

Holy Innocents

Their celebration appears in all Eastern and Western liturgical calendars and dates back to at least the 4th century.

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St. John the Evangelist

St. John the Evangelist

He has been depicted with an eagle as his symbol because he contemplated the immensity of the divine Word and outlined it in his writings like no other before.

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Saint Stephen

Saint Stephen

The first Christian martyr testified his faith in the Risen Christ without fear of death and, as a faithful in Christ, imitated him to the exent of asking God to forgive his executioners.

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Nativity of the Lord

Nativity of the Lord

We shall dedicate this space to remembering one detail of the immense history of salvation, namely that the today of the angels' news to the shepherds, that is, the today of the birth of Jesus, was precisely December 25th.

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Saints Adam and Eve

Saints Adam and Eve

After their freely-chosen consummation of original sin and expulsion from Eden, our forefathers – according to the Church Fathers and following some hints in the Old Testament – lived a life of prayer and penance, then dying reconciled with God.

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Saint John of Kety

Saint John of Kety

He was a Polish priest, theologian and university teacher, who always gave half of his academic salary to the poor.

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Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini

The devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the love for the Eucharist were the source of her perseverance. Pius XII canonized her and proclaimed her "heavenly patron of all emigrants".

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Saint Peter Canisius

Saint Peter Canisius

His Catechism – indeed, his three Catechisms – formed German Catholics for centuries: in Germany, as Pope Benedict XVI recalls, "even in my father's generation, people called the Catechism simply the Canisius".

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Saint Dominic of Silos

Saint Dominic of Silos

The reputation for holiness that Dominic of Silos (1000-1073) enjoyed during his lifetime led to his canonisation just three years after his death, while Spain was in the midst of the so-called Reconquista.

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Saint Anastasius I

Saint Anastasius I

Although his pontificate only lasted two years, he played a decisive role in the defence of orthodoxy.

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Saint Gatien

Saint Gatien

He was the founder of the Diocese of Tours a century before Saint Martin was appointed its bishop.

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