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Saint James, Apostle

The first Apostle to be martyred was James, the brother of John the Evangelist. Herod of Agrippa ordered his beheading. The two brothers abandoned their father Zebedee and followed Jesus as soon as...

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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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Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Saint Bonaventure
Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Saint Ulric of Augsburg

Saint Thomas the Apostle

Thomas was devoted to serving as an apostle for the Lord. When Jesus heard that he was going back to Judea, he told the other apostles right once, "Let us also go, that we may die with him" ...

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