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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Saint Barlaam

Saint Barlaam was an illiterate labourer who worked in a village near Antioch in the fourth century, at a time when Christians were still being persecuted for their faith. Because of his boldness in proclaiming his faith, Barlaam was brought …
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Saint Anthony

St Anthony of Padua was one of the most powerful preachers of the thirteenth century, he had a voice that could carry a great distance and could by his loving and brilliant personality overwhelm the sinful and turn them to …
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Juan Diego

A baptized Native American named Juan Diego, lived in Tolpetlac near the old Aztec capital in Mexico. On 9/12/1531 Juan was on his way to mass, as he climbed the hill near his village he saw a cloud surrounded by …
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Basil the Great

Basil, a lecturer at the University of Athens was a very clever man, he soon became tired of lecturing and decided to become a monk. He tried to live on his own for 5 years as a hermit on the …
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Hell’s Angel finds Jesus

Tony Anzelde lived alone; he was a member of a bike gang, a drug dealer and a fighter. He carried a gun and had a ten-inch blade in his boot as a back up. He loved his gang and his …
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