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Notburga was born circa 1265 at Rattenberg on the Inn, in the present-day state of Bavaria, Germany. She served as a cook in the family of Count Henry of Rothenburg and used the little a...
A native of Spain, young Jesuit Peter Claver left his homeland forever in 1610 to be a missionary in the colonies of the New World. He sailed into Cartagena, a rich port city washed by the Caribbea...
The first canonized saint of the New World has one characteristic of all saints—the suffering of opposition—and another characteristic which is more for admiration than for imitation—excessive prac...