religion
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Feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Date: February, 14 Because their father was an officer in a part of Greece inhabited by many Slavs, these two… Read More
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Feast of Saint Thomas Becket
Date: December, 29 Thomas Becket (also called Thomas of London) was born in Cheapside, London, to middle-class parents of Norman… Read More
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Feast of Blessed Jacopone da Todi
Date: December, 22 Jacomo or James, was born a noble member of the Benedetti family in the northern Italian city… Read More
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Feast of Saint Francis Xavier
Date: December, 3 Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta (Francis) was born into a noble family at the Castle of Xavier… Read More
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Feast of Saint Andrew Dũng-Lac and Companions
Date: November, 24 From the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, an estimated 130,000 to 300,000 men, women, and children; bishops, priests,… Read More
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Feast of Saint Edmund the Martyr
Date: November, 20 Saint Edmund, or Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia in the 9th century AD, is the… Read More
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Feast of Saint Leo the Great
Date: November, 10 Quote:He conquered that we too might likewise conquer. For there are no works of power, dearly beloved,… Read More
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Feast of Saint Charles Borromeo
Date: November, 4 Saint Charles Borromeo was born on October 2, 1538 at the castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore… Read More
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Feast of Saint John Paul II, Pope
Date: October, 22 Quote:Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors for Christ. To His saving power, open the boundaries… Read More
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Feast of Saints Jean de Brébeuf, Isaac Jogues and Companions
Date: October, 19 In the early seventeenth century, Dutch explorers made first contact with the Iroquois Confederacy in modern-day Albany,… Read More