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February, 11th | Our Lady of Lourdes
The Story of Our Lady of Lourdes
On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception in the apostolic constitution...
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February, 10th | Saint Scholastica
Saint Scholastica’s Story
Twins often share the same interests and ideas with an equal intensity. Therefore, it is no surprise that Scholastica an...
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February, 9th | Saint Jerome Emiliani
Saint Jerome Emiliani’s Story
A careless and irreligious soldier for the city-state of Venice, Jerome was captured in a skirmish at an outpost tow...
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February, 8th | Saint Josephine Bakhita
Saint Josephine Bakhita’s Story
For many years, Josephine Bakhita was a slave but her spirit was always free and eventually that spirit prevailed....
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February, 7th | Saint Colette
Saint Colette’s Story
Colette did not seek the limelight, but in doing God’s will she certainly attracted a lot of attention. Colette was born in ...
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February, 6th | Saint Paul Miki and Companions
Saint Paul Miki and Companions’ Story
Nagasaki, Japan, is familiar to Americans as the city on which the second atomic bomb was dropped, immediate...
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February, 5th | Saint Agatha
Saint Agatha’s Story
As in the case of Agnes, another virgin-martyr of the early Church, almost nothing is historically certain about this saint e...
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February, 4th | Saint Joseph of Leonissa
Saint Joseph of Leonissa’s Story
Joseph was born at Leonissa in the Kingdom of Naples. As a boy and as a student in early adulthood, Joseph drew a...
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February, 3rd | Saint Blaise
Saint Blaise’s Story
We know more about the devotion to Saint Blaise by Christians around the world than we know about the saint himself. His feas...
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February, 2nd | Presentation of the Lord
The Story of the Presentation of the Lord
At the end of the fourth century, a woman named Etheria made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Her journal, ...
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February, 1st | Saint Ansgar
Saint Ansgar’s Story
The “apostle of the north” (Scandinavia) had enough frustrations to become a saint—and he did. He became a Benedictine at Cor...
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January, 31th | Saint John Bosco
Saint John Bosco’s Story
John Bosco’s theory of education could well be used in today’s schools. It was a preventive system, rejecting corporal pu...
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