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Saint Lorenzo Ruiz

Lorenzo was born in Manila of a Chinese father and a Filipino mother, both Christians. Thus he learned Chinese and Tagalog from them, and Spanish from the Dominicans whom he served as altar boy and...

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Saint Padre Pio

On May 25, 1887, Francesco Forgione was born in Pietrelcina, Italy, and later became St. Padre Pio. He came from a family of poor farmers. In addition to three younger sisters and an elder brother,...

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Saint Thomas of Villanova
Saint Joseph of Cupertino
Our Lady of Sorrows

Exaltation of the Holy Cross

Early in the fourth century, Saint Helena, mother of the Roman Emperor Constantine, went to Jerusalem in search of the holy places of Christ’s life. She razed the second-century Temple of Aphrodite...

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