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Saint Ignatius of Loyola

The Universal Church celebrates St. Ignatius of Loyola's feast day on July 31. The Spanish saint is renowned for having founded the Jesuits, commonly known as the Society of Jesus, and for establis...

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Saints Joachim and Anne

On July 26 the Roman Catholic Church commemorates the parents of the Virgin Mary, Saints Joachim and Anne. The couple's faith and perseverance brought them through the sorrow of childlessness, to t...

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Saint James, Apostle
Saint Charbel Makhlouf
Saint Bridget of Sweden
Saint Arsenius the Great
Saint Camillus de Lellis

Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne

During the French Revolution, sixteen Carmelites were martyred. A convent in Compiegne, France, built in 1641, was home to twenty-one discalced Carmelites when the revolution began in 1789. The Rev...

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