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June, 9th | Saint Ephrem
Saint Ephrem’s Story
Poet, teacher, orator, and defender of the faith, Ephrem is the only Syriac Christian recognized as a doctor of the Church. H...
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June, 8th | Saint William of York
Saint William of York’s Story
A disputed election as archbishop of York and a mysterious death. Those are the headlines from the tragic life of to...
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June, 7th | Blessed Franz Jägerstätter
Blessed Franz Jägerstätter’s Story
Called to fight for his country as a Nazi solider, Franz eventually refused, and this husband and father of thr...
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June, 6th | Saint Norbert
Saint Norbert’s Story
In the 12th century in the French region of Premontre, Saint Norbert founded a religious Order known as the Praemonstratensi...
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June, 5th | Saint Boniface
Saint Boniface’s Story
Boniface, known as the apostle of the Germans, was an English Benedictine monk who gave up being elected abbot to devote h...
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June, 4th | Blessed Angeline of Marsciano
Blessed Angeline of Marsciano’s Story
Blessed Angeline founded the first community of Franciscan women other than Poor Clares to receive papal app...
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June, 3rd | Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions
Saint Charles Lwanga and Companions’ Story
One of 22 Ugandan martyrs, Charles Lwanga is the patron of youth and Catholic action in most of tropica...
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June, 2nd | Saints Marcellinus and Peter
Saints Marcellinus and Peter’s Story
Marcellinus and Peter were prominent enough in the memory of the Church to be included among the saints of th...
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June, 1st | Saint Justin Martyr
Saint Justin Martyr’s Story
Justin never ended his quest for religious truth even when he converted to Christianity after years of studying variou...
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May, 31st | Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Story of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
This is a fairly late feast, going back only to the 13th or 14th century. It was establishe...
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May, 30th | Saint Joan of Arc
Saint Joan of Arc’s Story
Burned at the stake as a heretic after a politically-motivated trial, Joan was beatified in 1909 and canonized in 1920.
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May, 29th | Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat
Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat’s Story
The legacy of Madeleine Sophie Barat can be found in the more than 100 schools operated by her Society of the...
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