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Saint Martin de Porres; Patron Saint of public health workers

Saint Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru on December 9, 1579. He was the son of a Spanish nobleman, Don Juan de Porras y de la Peña, and Ana Velázquez, a freed slave of African and Native desc...

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Saint Gaetano Errico

Gaetano Errico was born on 19 October 1791 in Secondigliano in Naples as the second of nine children to Pasquale Errico and Maria Marseglia. His father managed a small pasta warehouse and his mothe...

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Saint Alfred the Great
Saint John Paul II

Saint Maria Bertilla Boscardin; a missionary to the sick and marginalized

Maria Bertilla Boscardin was an Italian nun and nurse who displayed a pronounced devotion to duty in working with sick children and victims of the air raids of World War I. She was born...

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