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In either 316 or 336 AD, Saint Martin of Tours was born in Savaria, Pannonia (present-day Hungary). His father served in the Imperial Horse Guard as a tribune, a high-ranking officer. When his fath...
The life of St. Simon, who had been referred to as a Zealot, after Pentecost is not well understood. He is believed to have joined St. Jude in Persia after preaching in Egypt. He is frequently seen...
John (or Giovanni) Leonardi was the youngest of seven children born in the Tuscan area of Lucca in 1541 to middle-class parents. At seventeen, he enrolled in pharmacy classes, studied hard for ten ...