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The first canonized saint of the New World has one characteristic of all saintsâthe suffering of oppositionâand another characteristic which is more for admiration than for imitationâexcessive prac...
St. Philip Benizi was born in 1233 to a wealthy family in Florence, Italy. He had his education in Paris and Padua, where he obtained his doctorate in both philosophy and medicine. He briefly pract...
On January 8, 1894, in the Kingdom of Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire, Raymund Kolbe, who would later become St. Maximilian Kolbe, was born. During World War II, he was a Polish Conventua...