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On April 2, 1842, Dominic Savio was born in the northern Italian village of Riva. His mother worked as a seamstress, and his father was a blacksmith. He had a total of nine siblings. Despite their ...
Catherine was the twenty-third child born to Jacopo and Lapa Benincasa, on March 25, 1347, the feast day of the Annunciation, in Siena. Her twin sister died as an infant. As a child, she...
St. Agnes of Montepulciano was born in Tuscany during the 13th century. Agnes started pleading with her parents when she was six years old to be allowed to enter a convent. Even though it is usuall...