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Feast of Saint Peter Canisius
Date: December, 21 On October 31, 1517, Father Martin Luther, a German Augustinian monk and theologian, nailed his Ninety-five Theses… Read More
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Feast of Saint Dominic of Silos
Date: December, 20 Born in Cañas, La Rioja, to a family of peasants, Dominic worked as a shepherd, later becoming… Read More
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Feast of Saint Anastasius I, Pope
Date: December, 19 St. Anastasius I was born in Rome. He was the son of Maximus, and was Pope from… Read More
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Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Date: December, 18 Today is exactly seven days before Christmas. Today’s feast has several names, including the Feast of the… Read More
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Feast of Saint Olympias
Date: December, 17 Olympias was the daughter born to the Antiochian Greek noblewoman, Alexandra and the wealthy Greek Rhetor, Seleucus.… Read More
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Feast of Saint Adelaide of Burgundy
Date: December, 16 The daughter of Rudolf II, king of Burgundy, and Bertha of Swabia, Adelaide, (born c. 931—died December… Read More
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Feast of Saint Mary Di Rosa
Date: December, 15 In the middle of the war in Brescia (Italy) in 1848, on 15 December, the wounded, sick,… Read More
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Feast of Saint John of the Cross
Date: December, 14 Juan de Yepes y Álvarez was born in Fontiveros, Ávila, Spain. His family descended from Jewish converts… Read More
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Feast of Saint Lucy of Syracuse
Date: December, 13 It takes great faith to exclaim that torture and death are glorious when they result from your… Read More
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Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Date: December, 12 “My dear child, Am I not here, I, who am your mother? Are you not under my… Read More
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