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Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes

Today the Catholic Church celebrates the liturgical memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes, commemorating a series of 18 appearances that the Blessed Virgin Mary made to a 14-year-old French peasant girl,...

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Memorial of Saint Paul Miki and Companions

On the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1549, Saint Francis Xavier and two other Jesuits arrived at the harbour of Kagoshima, becoming the first missionaries to enter Japan. Af...

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Saint John De Brito
Saint Bathilde

Saint Angela Merici

St. Angela Merici was an Italian religious educator and founder of the Ursulines. She was born on March 21, 1474, in Desenzano, a small town on the shore of Lake Garda in Lombardy. Wh...

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