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Juan de Palfox y Mendoza was born in Fitero (Navarre), Spain, on June 24, 1600, and was baptized on June 29, the feast of St. Peter, to whom he was always to have a special devotion....
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Lelia Cossidente was born in Potenza on the 4th of May, 1893. She followed the family who moved to Rome in 1904. In 1913 she obtained her normal license, taught in an elementary school in the...
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Louis Martin was born in Bourdeaux on August 22, 1823. A man of faith and prayer, he cultivated for a period of time the desire to consecrate himself to God in the hospice of Great St....
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Magdalene of St Joseph was born in Paris, to a Turonese family, on May 17, 1578, the sixth of fifteen children. She grew up in Paris and Tours, where, in 1603, she met Pierre de Bérulle...
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Carlo Zucchetti, was born in Vighignolo, a hamlet of Settimo Milanese (Ml), Italy, on November 29, 1914 at half past four in the morning, the second son of the four children of Giulio and Luigia Zucchetti....
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Marcellus of the Virgin of Carmel was born in Kiskomárom (now Zalakomár), Hungary, on September 9, 1887. At the age of 38 he left everything to enter Carmel definitively. After his ordination he was appointed master...
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Margaret of the Blessed Sacrament was born in Beaune, France, on February 7, 1619. Her parents, Pierre Parigot and Jeanne Battaille, were both middle-class influential and wealthy. They very quickly directed their child to an authentically...
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Margaret Mary was born in Cocentaina, diocese of Valencia (Spain) on March 16, 1908 and was baptized on the 25th of that month in the parish of Santa María. At the age of 8 she made...
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Joan Adelaide O'Sullivan Rouley was born in New York on October 8, 1817 to an Anglican father and a Catholic mother. She was baptized in the Anglican Church. Four years after, the young girl decided to...
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Mother Maria Angélica da Eucaristia (Order of Discalced Carmelites), born Sophia Maria Esteves de Mello on 23 December 1931 in Grão Mogol, Minas Gerais, was a woman of deep spirituality, with an unconditional love for the...
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Maria Antonia of Jesus was born in Cuntis, Archdiocese of Santiago de Compostela (Spain), on the 6th of October, 1700. She was educated from an early age to have a deep faith and to work. The...
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Maria Barba was born on 16 January 1884 into the bosom of a deeply believing family, but which resolutely opposed her religious vocation, manifested since the age of fifteen. Maria, in fact, would have to wait...
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