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September, 26th | Saint Paul VI
Saint Paul VI’s Story
Born near Brescia in northern Italy, Giovanni Battista Montini was the second of three sons. His father, Giorgio, was a lawy...
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September, 25th | Saints Louis Martin and Zélie Guérin
Saints Louis Martin and Zélie Guérin's Story
Born into a military family in Bordeaux, Louis trained to become a watchmaker. His desire to join a r...
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September, 24th | Saint John Henry Newman
Saint John Henry Newman's Story
John Henry Newman, the 19th-century’s most important English-speaking Catholic theologian, spent the first half of...
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September, 23rd | Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
Saint Pio of Pietrelcina’s Story
In one of the largest such ceremonies in history, Pope John Paul II canonized Padre Pio of Pietrelcina on June 16...
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September, 22nd | Saint Lorenzo Ruiz and Companions
Saint Lorenzo Ruiz and Companions' Story
Lorenzo was born in Manila of a Chinese father and a Filipino mother, both Christians. Thus he learned Ch...
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September, 21st | Saint Matthew
Saint Matthew’s Story
Matthew was a Jew who worked for the occupying Roman forces, collecting taxes from other Jews. The Romans were not scrupulou...
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September, 20th | Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions
Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions’ Stories
The first native Korean priest, Andrew Kim Taegon was the son of Christian co...
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September, 19th | Saint Januarius
Saint Januarius' Story
Little is known about the life of Januarius. He is believed to have been martyred in the Emperor Diocletian’s persecution o...
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September, 18th | Saint Joseph of Cupertino
Saint Joseph of Cupertino’s Story
Joseph of Cupertino is most famous for levitating at prayer. Already as a child, Joseph showed a fondness for pr...
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September, 17th | Saint Robert Bellarmine
Saint Robert Bellarmine's Story
When Robert Bellarmine was ordained in 1570, the study of Church history and the fathers of the Church was in a sa...
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September, 16th | Saint Cornelius
Saint Cornelius' Story
There was no pope for 14 months after the martyrdom of Saint Fabian because of the intensity of the persecution of the Chur...
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September, 15th | Our Lady of Sorrows
The Story of Our Lady of Sorrows
For a while there were two feasts in honor of the Sorrowful Mother: one going back to the 15th century, the other...
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