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Saint Anthony Mary Claret

Like his father, Anthony Mary Claret was born in Spain in 1807 and worked as a weaver. He studied Latin in his free time, enrolled in a seminary at 22, and was ordained in 1835. After ten years of ...

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Saint Paul of the Cross

Born in northern Italy in 1694, Paul Daneo lived at a time when many regarded Jesus as a great moral teacher but no more. After a brief time as a soldier, he turned to solitary prayer, developing a...

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Saint Luke, Evangelist
Saint Ignatius of Antioch
Pope Saint John XXIII
Saint Daniel Comboni

Saint John Leonardi

John (or Giovanni) Leonardi was the youngest of seven children born in the Tuscan area of Lucca in 1541 to middle-class parents. At seventeen, he enrolled in pharmacy classes, studied hard for ten ...

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