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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 ...
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...
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 ...