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Giovanni Antonio Guadagni (c…

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Giovanni Antonio was born in Florence on September 14, 1674, the only son of the Marquis Donato Guadagni and his wife Maddalena, née Corsini, sister of the future Pope Clement XII. On the 3rd of May ...

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Lelia Cossidente

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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 San Lor...

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Marcello dell’Immacolata

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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 Zucch...

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Margherita Maria del Cuore E…

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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 her first communio...

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Maria Adelaide di Santa Tere…

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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 ...

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Maria Angelica dell’Eucarist…

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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 uncon...

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Maria Cristina di Gesù Sacra…

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Maria Christina was born and baptized in Seville (Spain) in July 1890. Her parents were called José and Elisa. The date of her first communion is unknown. On 24 January 1921, Cristina entered the con...

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Maria della Concezione di Sa…

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Maria of the Conception was born on April 25, 1905 in Palma de Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain). She had everything you could want: wealth, comfort, influence in society... passionate about reading...

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Maria Giuseppe di Gesù (Hono…

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Honorina de Abreu was born in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) on February 18, 1882. She lost her mother at the age of 9. Young, beautiful and intelligent, Honorina shone in Rio in the society of that time! B...

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Maria Isabella dell’Amore Mi…

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María Isabel Zapata de Calatayud was born in Gandía (Valencia), Spain, on December 27, 1907. She lost her mother at the age of three and her father two years later. The Christian formation received ...

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Martiri coreane (Maria Matil…

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SISTER THERESE OF THE INFANT JESUS (IRENE BASTIN) Irene Bastin was born on 5 July 1901 at Saint Vinvent in Luxembourg.  Her family was Christian. At the outbreak of the First World War both h...

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Martiri di Santander (Atanas…

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Atanasio del Sacro Cuore (Gregorio Aguinagalde Aguirreche) 1870-1936; Ruperto della Croce (Ruperto Andueza Larraya) 1897-1936; Massimino della Vergine del Carmelo (Maximino Sáez Martínez) 19...

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Martiri di Segorbe-Castellon…

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Andrea Corsini della Vergine del Pilar (Miguel Palomar Martín) 1887-1936; Fernando di S. Teresa (Mariano Górriz Martínez) 1882-1936; Eusebio di Gesù (Eusebio Galindo Zurdo) 1887-1936; Edoardo della Ve...

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Mercedes di Santa Teresina

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Mercedes was born in Tunja (Boyacá), Colombia, on November 18, 1930. At the age of 22 she entered the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelite nuns of Villa de Leyva, receiving the name of Mary Celine of...

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Pedro della Madre di Dio

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Peter of the Mother of God was born in Daroca (Zaragoza ─ Spain) in 1565. He made his profession in Pastrana on 23rd of January 1583 and around 1590, still a deacon, he was sent to Italy as a compani...

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Raffaele Carlo Rossi (cardin…

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Raffaele Carlo Rossi was born in Pisa on October 28, 1876. Soon his parents separated, leaving in him a deep nostalgia that was reflected throughout his life. However, he maintained contact with both...

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Rodolfo della Trasverberazio…

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Rudolf of the Transverberation was born on November 14, 1919 in Bachowice, (Poland) not far from Wadowice, in the archdiocese of Krakow, into a practicing and farming family. He completed his middle-...

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Rufino della Vergine del Car…

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Rufino was born in Villaveta Zazpe Zabalza (Navarre), Spain, on November 16, 1891. Fleeing the wars of his time, he emigrated to Chile in 1913. In the same year he joined the Discalced Carmelites of...

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Salvatore del Cuore Immacola…

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Salvador Riviera Garcia was born in Salvatierra, Guanajuato (Mexico) on June 27, 1934. Like everyone else, he was a lively and playful child, but also very intelligent and willing to help. As a boy, ...

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Sergio di San Giuseppe

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Sergio Sorgon was born in San Donà di Piave on 12 November 1938, the fourth of ten children. In 1949, he entered the minor seminary in Verona. In 1955, he took the religious habit and professed his vo...

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Teresa Camilla di Gesù Bambi…

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Thérèse Camille of the Child Jesus was born in France in 1757, the daughter of the Marquis de Soyécourt. At the age of 16 she decided to enter a monastery, but had to face opposition from her parents...

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Víctor Rodríguez Martínez

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Víctor Rodriguez was born on April 12, 1925 in Quintanadiez de la Vega (Palencia, Spain), into a solidly Christian family. At the age of two he had an experience of grace that marked his whole life...

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Immacolato Giuseppe di Gesù

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The Venerable Servant of God Immaculato Joseph of Jesus (Aldo Brienza) was born on  August 15, 1922, in Campobasso (Italy). At the age of sixteen, while attending the Higher Technical Institute...

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Isabella Morfini

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Bina (as every one called her) was the eldest of nine sisters and brothers.  As both their mother and grandmother were ill, Bina acted as mother to all the family. Very early on she joined the A...

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Isidoro della Natività della…

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The lay brother, Isidore of the Nativity of Mary (Giacomo Antonio Sciuti) was born in Carpeneto, in the province of Alessandria, Italy, on 8th of July 1696. At the end of the period of formation in ...

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Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (V…

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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. In 1610 for hi...

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Maria degli Angeli (Operti)

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Giuseppina Operti was born in Turin (Italy) on November 16, 1871 into a wealthy family. She was tested by the death of her brother and father within three months. Together with her mother, she gave h...

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Maria Eugenio di Gesù Bambin…

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Henri Grialou (his secular name) was born into a modest mining family in Aveyron, in central France. Attracted by God from an early age, he wanted to be a priest. In the minor seminary he discovered t...

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Maria Luisa Giuseppa del SS…

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Maria Luisa de la Peña Navarro was born on June 21, 1866 in Atotonilco El Alto (Jalisco), Mexico, into a family of wealthy landowners, of good manners and very charitable. At the age of 15, in an arr...

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Maria Mercede del Cuore di G…

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Nacque a Barcellona il 6 marzo 1880, in una famiglia cristiana, un fratello era un sacerdote. Frequentò sin da piccola le religiose della Compagnia di s. Teresa dove nella loro Casa-madre ricevette l...

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Maria Teresa della SS. Trini…

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Maria Teresa de Jesus Anastasia Cayetana was born in Guatemala City on April 15, 1784, into the bosom of a wealthy family. She distributed all her possessions to follow Jesus in the consecrated life ...

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Maria Teresa della SS. Trini…

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Teresa Ysseldijk was born on November 13, 1897, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, the daughter of a Catholic family full of faith. After a stay of 6 years in Ochtrup, Germany, where her father died, she ...

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Maria Teresa di San Giuseppe…

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Janina Kierocińska was born on 14th of June 1885 in Wieluń (Poland) into a large family of deeply religious landowners. She was baptized on June 21, 1885. Already on the day of her First Communion, Ju...

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Maria Teresa di San Giuseppe…

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Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch was born on 19th of June 1855 in Sandow, Brandenburg, (then in Germany, now in Poland), to deeply believing Lutheran parents. Her father was a pastor of the Evangeli...

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Maria Veronica della Passion…

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Sophie Leeves was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) on October 1st, 1823. Her father was the Anglican chaplain of the British Embassy. During adolescence a profound change took place in her. She ...

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Maria Zanelli

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Antonietta Zanelli was born in Castel Guelfo (Italy) on June 17, 1887. Born into a wealthy family, her father was the pharmacist of the village and her mother, Countess Maria Acquaderni, was the siste...

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Pura Rosa del Carmen Olmos

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The Servant of God Pura Rose of Carmel Olmos Professed Religious of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa of Jesus (Arg.)             Secundina G...

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Rosa di San Giuseppe

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Rosa Ojeda y Creus was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú on August 30, 1871 into a poor family. In 1877, following the death of her parents, she and her two siblings were taken in by their maternal grand...

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Saturnina del Cuore Agonizza…

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Saturnina Jassá y Fontcuberta was born in Spain on March 3, 1851 in Calaceite, an Aragonese municipality then belonging to the diocese of Tortosa in the province of Teruel. After a normal childhood ...

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Teresa del Cuore Immacolato …

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Teresa Toda y Guasch was born in Riudecanyes (Spain) on May 28, 1848 and was baptized the next day in the parish of her hometown. On July 8, Antonio Guasch, her father, who had already left home, vio...

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Teresa Maria della Croce (Ma…

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Teresa Adelaide Cesina Manetti, was born in Campi Bisenzio, in the then hamlet of San Martino, to Gaetano Manaetti (a poultry farmer) and Rosa Bigagli, on March 2, 1846. At the age of three she lost ...

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