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Saint Rose of Lima

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...

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St. Philip Benizi

St. Philip Benizi was born in 1233 to a wealthy family in Florence, Italy. He had his education in Paris and Padua, where he obtained his doctorate in both philosophy and medicine. He briefly pract...

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St. Andrew the Scot
St. Pius X
St. Bernard of Clairvaux
St. Helena
St. Anastasius IX
St. Stephen the Great
St. Alipius

St. Maximilian Kolbe

On January 8, 1894, in the Kingdom of Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire, Raymund Kolbe, who would later become St. Maximilian Kolbe, was born. During World War II, he was a Polish Conventua...

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