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Saint Nicholas
St. Nicholas was born in Asia Minor. When he was ordained into the priesthood the young Nicholas gave away all his possessions to the poor and entered a monastery where he later became Abbot. He went on to become Bishop …
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Saint Meinrod
St. Meinrod was a ninth-century Benedictine monk at the monastery of Reichenau, Switzerland. In 840 he realized he had a vocation to a solitary life of prayer. He received permission to live as a hermit among the pines by Lake …
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Saint Catherine
Emperor Maxentius carried off Saint Catherine of Alexandria along with other women in the year 305; she was only 18 years old yet had studied much. Maxentius wished to marry her but she refused, wishing to remain a virgin for …
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St Benedict and St Scholastica
St Benedict and St Scholastica were twins born in Umbia about the year 480. At the age of 20 Benedict went to live as a hermit in a cave, but so many people followed him that he was able to …
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Saint Zita
St. Zita, the servant girl was sent to work in a rich household in Lucca at the age of twelve. Her parents were extremely poor, but had brought their daughter up with fine morals and a deep love for the …
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Saint Rita
St Rita of Cascia was born in 1381; she shared from her earliest year’s an extraordinary piety and love of prayer. She had set her heart upon dedicating herself to God in the Augustinian convent at Cascia but her father …
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Saint Maximilian
He was born Raymond Kolbe in 1894, Poland. As a child he had a vision in which the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to him, she was holding two crowns in her hands, one white, the other red. She asked young …
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Saint Lawrence
St Lawrence was a Spaniard who came to Rome to serve Pope Sixtus ll. Lawrence was a deacon; his duty was to assist the Pope when celebrating Holy Mass and to give Holy Communion to the people. He was also …
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Saint Clare
St Clare was so impressed with the life and works of St Frances of Assisi, that she ran away from home leaving behind her all wealth and possession’s to follow Christ. St Francis sent her to live with the Benedictine …
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Saint Boniface
St Boniface was born around the year 680 at Crediton, Devon. He was educated in Monastery schools near Exeter and at Winchester. He decided to become a missionary for Christ and founded many monasteries; Pope Gregory ll made him a …
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