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Leodegarius was the son of a high-ranking Burgundian nobleman, Bodilon and St. Sigrada of Alsace, who later became a nun in the convent of Sainte-Marie at Soissons.He spent his childhood in ...
St. Vincent de Paul was born to a poor peasant family in the French village of Pouy on April 24, 1581. His first formal education was provided by the Franciscans. He used to tutor the children of a...
St. Joseph was born in 1603 at Cupertino, in the diocese of Nardo in the Kingdom of Naples. His father, Felice Desa was a poor carpenter who died before the boy was born. Creditors drove his mother...