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December, 19th | Blessed Urban V
Blessed Urban V’s Story
In 1362, the man elected pope declined the office. When the cardinals could not find another person among them for that im...
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December, 18th | Blessed Anthony Grassi
Blessed Anthony Grassi’s Story
Anthony’s father died when his son was only 10 years old, but the young lad inherited his father’s devotion to Our ...
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December, 17th | Saint Hildegard of Bingen
Saint Hildegard of Bingen’s Story
Abbess, artist, author, composer, mystic, pharmacist, poet, preacher, theologian—where to begin in describing th...
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December, 16th | Blessed Honoratus Kozminski
Blessed Honoratus Kozminski’s Story
Wenceslaus Kozminski was born in Biala Podlaska in 1829. By the age of 11 he had lost his faith. By the age of...
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December, 15th | Blessed Mary Frances Schervier
Blessed Mary Frances Schervier’s Story
This woman who once wanted to become a Trappistine nun was instead led by God to establish a community of s...
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December, 14th | Saint John of the Cross
Saint John of the Cross’ Story
John is a saint because his life was a heroic effort to live up to his name: “of the Cross.” The folly of the cross...
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December, 13th | Saint Lucy
Saint Lucy’s Story
Every little girl named Lucy must bite her tongue in disappointment when she first tries to find out what there is to know abou...
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December, 12th | Our Lady of Guadalupe
The Story of Our Lady of Guadalupe
The feast in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe goes back to the 16th century. Chronicles of that period tell us th...
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December, 11th | Saint Damasus I
Saint Damasus I’s Story
To his secretary Saint Jerome, Damasus was “an incomparable person, learned in the Scriptures, a virgin doctor of the virg...
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December, 10th | Blessed Adolph Kolping
Blessed Adolph Kolping’s Story
The rise of the factory system in 19th-century Germany brought many single men into cities where they faced new cha...
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December, 9th | Saint Juan Diego
Saint Juan Diego's Story
Thousands of people gathered in the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe July 31, 2002, for the canonization of Juan Diego, ...
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December, 8th | Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
The Story of the Immaculate Conception of Mary
A feast called the Conception of Mary arose in the Eastern Church in the seventh century. It came t...
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