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Saint Jerome Emiliani – Feast Day – February 8
Memorial of St Jerome Emiliani, Priest. Born on 1486 in Italy, Europe. Worked at Somasca, Italy and died on 8 February 1537 in Somasca, Italy [Read More …]
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Egidio Maria of Saint Joseph – February 7 – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Egidio Maria of Saint Joseph. Born on 16 November 1729 in Italy. Died on 7 February 1812 (aged 82) in Naples, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies [Read More …]
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St Agatha of Sicily – Feast Day – February 5 2025
St Agatha was born around 231 AD in Catania, Sicily. She was tortured for her Christian faith and rejection of the marriage proposal. She was tortured, had her breasts cut off and died as a virgin [Read More …]
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Saint Joseph of Leonessa – February 4 – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Saint Joseph of Leonessa. Born on 8 January 1556 in Italy, Europe. Worked at Umbria, Italy and died on 4 February 1612 in Umbria, Italy [Read More …]
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St John Bosco, Priest – Feast Day – January 31 2025
St John Melchior Bosco was an Italian Catholic priest and teacher of Youth. He was born on August 16 1815, in Castelnuovo d’Asti, Piedmont, Italy and died on January 31, 1888, in Turin, Italy at [Read More …]
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St Martina of Rome Biography – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Saint Martina of Rome. Born on Early 3rd Century in Italy, Europe. Worked at Rome, Italy and died on 228 AD in Rome, Roman Empire [Read More …]
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St Thomas Aquinas – Feast Day – January 28 2025
St Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and priest born in 1225 in Roccasecca, Sicily, Italy. He died on March 7 1274 in Fossanova, Papal States at the age of 48–49 years. We celebrate [Read More …]
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St Angela Merici, Virgin – Feast Day – January 27 2025
St Angela Merici was born on March 21 1474 in Desenzano del Garda, Province of Brescia, Venice, Italy. She was an Italian Catholic religious educator who founded the Company of St. Ursula in 1535 in [Read More …]
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St Agnes of Rome, Virgin and Martyr – Feast Day – January 21 2025
St Agnes was born in 291 AD in Rome into a noble family. At a young age, she was a staunch Christian who refused to be betrothed to rich suitors, remained a virgin and also [Read More …]
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St Fabian, Pope – Feast Day – January 20 2025
St Fabian, Pope was born in Rome in the late 2nd Century AD and became the Pope and Bishop of Rome on January 10 236 AD. He was killed on January 20 250 AD and [Read More …]
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Saint Bassianus of Lodi Feast Day – January 19 – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Saint Bassianus of Lodi. Born on 320 AD in Italy, Europe. Worked at Lodi, Italy and died on 413 AD in Lodi, Italy [Read More …]
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Pope Saint Marcellus I Feast Day – January 16 – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Pope Saint Marcellus I. Born on 255 AD in Italy, Europe. Worked at Rome, Italy and died on 16 January 309 (aged 54) in Rome, Roman Empire [Read More …]
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Saint Felix of Nola Feast Day – 14 January –
Memorial of Saint Felix of Nola. Born on Early 3rd century AD in Italy, Europe. Worked at Nola, Campania, Italy and died on 250 AD in Nola, Campania, Italy [Read More …]
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Saint Daniel of Padua – Feast Day – January 3
Memorial of Saint Daniel of Padua. Born on 2nd Century AD in Italy, Europe. Worked at Padua, Italy and died on 168 AD in Padua, Italy [Read More …]
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St Frances Xavier Cabrini – Feast Day – November 13 2024
St Frances Xavier Cabrini (Mother Cabrini) was a Catholic nun and founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. She was born on July 15 1850, in Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Lombardy, Italy, and [Read More …]
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Saint Bernard Valeara of Teramo Feast Day – 19 December – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Saint Bernard Valeara of Teramo. Born on 1050 AD in Italy, Europe. Worked at Teramo, Italy and died on 19 December 1122 in Teramo, Italy [Read More …]
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Saint Gatianus of Tours Feast Day – December 18 – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Saint Gatianus of Tours. Born on 3rd century in Italy, Europe. Worked at Tours, France and died on 20 December 301 in Tours, France [Read More …]
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Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli Feast Day – 15 December – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli. Born on 2 April 1587 in Italy, Europe. Worked at Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia and died on 15 December 1651 (aged 64) in Genoa, Kingdom of Sardinia [Read More …]
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St Lucy of Syracuse – Feast Day – December 13 2024
St Lucy was also known as Lucia of Syracuse. She was a virgin and martyr who is explicitly commemorated by Catholics in the Canon of the Mass. She was born in 283 AD in Syracuse, [Read More …]
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Pope Saint Damasus I – Feast Day – December 11 2024
Pope Saint Damasus I was the Bishop of Rome from 366 AD till 384 AD. He was born in 304 AD. He died on December 11 384 in Rome. We celebrate his feast day on [Read More …]
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Saint Bibiana Feast Day – 2 December – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Saint Bibiana, Virgin and Martyr. Born on 4th century in Italy, Europe. Worked at Rome, Italy and died on 4th century in Rome, Italy [Read More …]
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St Leo the Great, Pope – Feast Day – November 10 2024
St Leo the Great or Pope Leo I was born in 400 AD in Tuscany, Italy. He was the bishop of Rome from September 29 440 AD until he died on November 10 461 in [Read More …]
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St Guido Maria Conforti – Feast Day – November 5 2024
St Guido Maria Conforti was the Roman Catholic archbishop who founded the Xaverian Missionary Fathers. He was born on March 30 1865 in Ravadese, Parma, Italy and died on November 5 1931 in Parma, Italy. [Read More …]
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Blessed Irene Stefani Feast Day – 31 October – Saint of the Day
Blessed Irene Stefani was born on 22 August 1891 in Italy, Europe. Worked at Gikondi, Mukurweini, Nyeri, Kenya and died on 31 October 1930 (aged 39) in Gikondi, Mukurweini, Nyeri, Kenya [Read More …]
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St Gaetano Errico – Feast Day – October 29 2024
St Gaetano Errico was a Roman Catholic priest and founder of The Missionaries of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. He was born on October 19 1791 in Secondigliano, Naples, Italy, and died on [Read More …]
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Saints Crispin and Crispinian – Feast Day – October 25
Saints Crispin and Crispinian, also known as Crispinus and Crispianus, were Christian brothers who preached Christianity during the day and made shoes by night in Soissons, France. They were born in the 3rd century AD [Read More …]
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St John of Capistrano – Feast Day – October 23
St John of Capistrano was a Franciscan friar and Catholic priest born on June 24 1386 in Capestrano, Abruzzi, Italy, and died on October 23 1456 at the age of 70 in Ilok, Syrmia, Croatia [Read More …]
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St Paul of the Cross – Feast Day – October 19 2024 (October 20 in the US)
St Paul of the Cross (Paolo Francesco Danei) was the founder of the Passionists. He was born on January 3 1694 in Ovada, Piedmont, Italy. He died on October 18 1775 at the age of [Read More …]
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St Callistus I, Pope – Feast Day – October 14 2023
Pope St Callistus I, also called Callixtus, was the bishop of Rome from 218 AD until 222 AD. He was born in the 2nd Century AD and died as a martyr in 222 AD in [Read More …]
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St John XXIII, Pope – Feast Day – October 11 2024
Pope St John XXIII was born on November 25 1881 in Sotto il Monte, Bergamo Province, Lombardy Region, Italy, and given the name Giuseppe Angelo Roncalli. He was the 260th pope who convened the Second [Read More …]
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St Daniel Comboni – Feast Day – October 10 2024
St Daniel Comboni was an Italian Roman Catholic bishop who served as a missionary in Africa. He was the founder of both the Comboni Missionaries of the Heart of Jesus and the Comboni Missionary Sisters. [Read More …]
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Saints Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius Feast Day – 9 October – Saint of the Day
Saints Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius Feast Day. Born on Early 3rd Century in Italy, Europe. Worked at Paris, France and died on 258 A.D in Paris, France [Read More …]
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St Francis of Assisi – Feast Day – October 4 2024
St Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and deacon who founded the men’s Order of Friars Minor (the Franciscans), the women’s Order of St. Clare (The Poor Clares), and the Third Order of [Read More …]
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Padre Pio – St Pio of Pietrelcina – Feast Day – September 23 2024
St Padre Pio of Pietrelcina is also known as Francesco Forgione. He was a Franciscan Capuchin, friar, and priest born on May 25 1887 in Pietrelcina, Benevento, Italy. He died on September 23 1968 at [Read More …]
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Saint Ignatius of Santhia Feast Day – 22 September – Saint of the Day
Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Santhia. Born on 5 June 1686 in Italy, Europe. Worked at Italy and died on 22 September 1770 in Turin, Italy [Read More …]
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St Januarius, Bishop and Martyr – Feast Day – September 19 2024
St Januarius was a 3rd-century Bishop of Benevento, Italy. He died as a martyr in 305 AD in Pozzuoli, Campania during the Diocletian’s persecutions of Christians. We celebrate his feast day on September 19 every year [Read More …]
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Saint Joseph of Cupertino Feast Day – 18 September – Saint of the Day
Saint Joseph of Cupertino Feast Day. Born on 17 June 1603 in Italy, Europe. Worked at Cupertino, Italy and died on 18 September 1663 in Ossimo, Italy [Read More …]
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St Robert Bellarmine – Feast Day – September 17 2024
St Robert Bellarmine was a cardinal and the Archbishop of Capua in Campania, Italy. He was born on October 4 1542 in Montepulciano, Italy. He died on September 17 1621 at the age of 78 [Read More …]
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St Nicholas of Tolentino – Feast Day – September 10 2024
Saint Nicholas of Tolentino Biography St Nicholas of Tolentino Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Feast Day, Beatification Date, Canonization Date, Matrimony/Holy Orders, Monks who [Read More …]
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Saint of the Day – September 4 – Saint Rosalia, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Feast Day, Beatification Date, Canonization Date
Memorial of Saint Rosalia. Born on 1130 AD in Italy, Europe. Worked at Mount Pellegrino, Italy and died on 1166 (aged 35–36) in Mount Pellegrino, Kingdom of Sicily, Italy [Read More …]
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St Gregory the Great, Pope – Feast Day – September 3 2024
St Gregory the Great was also known as Pope Gregory I or Gregorius Anicius. He was born in 540 AD in Rome, Italy, and died on March 12 604 in Rome. He is famously known for [Read More …]
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St Pius X, Pope – Feast Day – August 21 2024
St Pius X was the Pope of the Catholic Church from August 4 1903 until August 20 1914. He was born on June 2 1835 in Riese, Treviso, Italy with the birth name Giuseppe Melchiorre [Read More …]
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St Hippolytus, Priest – Feast Day – August 13 2024
St Hippolytus of Rome was born in 170 AD and died in October 235 AD on the Island of Sardinia, Italy. He was a Christian theologian in the second and third centuries. It has not [Read More …]
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St Clare of Assisi, Virgin – Feast Day – August 11 2024
St Clare of Assisi was born with the name Chiara Offreduccio. The name is also spelled as Clara, Clair, or Claire. She was the founder of the Order of Saint Clare or the Poor Clares. [Read More …]
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St Sixtus II, Pope and Companions – Feast Day – August 7 2024
St Sixtus II, Pope and Martyr, and Companions, Martyrs Pope Sixtus II was born in Greece in the Roman Empire in the early 3rd century AD. He was the bishop of Rome and pope from [Read More …]
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Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major – Feast Day – August 5 2024
This feast day of the Dedication of the Basilica of St Mary Major has the rank of a memorial and is celebrated by the Catholic Church every year on August 5. Before 1960, the feast [Read More …]
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St Eusebius of Vercelli – Feast Day – August 2 2024
St Eusebius of Vercelli was the first bishop in Vercelli in Northern Italy. He was born on March 2 283 AD in Sardinia. He died on August 1 371 in Vercelli, Piedmont in Northwest Italy [Read More …]
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Saint of the Day – August 1 – Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Feast Day, Beatification Date, Canonization Date
Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Maria de Liguori. Born on 27 September 1696 in Italy, Europe. Worked at Bishop of St. Agatha and died on 1 August 1787 in Pagani, Campania, Kingdom of Naples [Read More …]
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St Peter Chrysologus – Feast Day – July 30 2024
St Peter Chrysologus was also called “Peter the Golden-worded” because of his exceptional oratorical eloquence. He was born in 380 AD in Imola, Province of Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, North-Central Italy, and died on July 31 450 [Read More …]
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Saint of the Day – 27 July – Pope Saint Celestine I, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Feast Day, Beatification Date, Canonization Date
Memorial of Pope Saint Celestine I. Born on Mid 350s AD in Italy, Europe. Worked at Rome and died on 27 July 432 in Rome, Italy [Read More …]
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St Lawrence of Brindisi – Feast Day – July 21 2024
St Lawrence of Brindisi was also called Julius Caesar Rossi, Giulio Cesare Russo or Lorenzo da Brindisi. He was a Roman Catholic priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin and a theologian. He was [Read More …]
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St Bonaventure – Feast Day – July 15 2023
St Bonaventure was the Cardinal Bishop of Albano and also known as “the Seraphic Doctor”. He was born with the name Giovanni di Fidanza in 1221 in Bagnoregio in the Province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy. [Read More …]
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St Camillus de Lellis – Feast Day – July 14 and (July 18 in the US)
St Camillus de Lellis was born on May 25 1550 in Bocchiavico, Abruzzi, Kingdom of Naples, Italy. He was the founder of the Congregation of the Servants of the Sick and Poor (the Camellians). He [Read More …]
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St Benedict of Nursia, Abbot – Feast Day – July 11 2024
St Benedict of Nursia was also known as Benedetto da Norcia. He was a monk and an abbot born on March 2 480 AD in Norcia, Umbria, Italy. He died on March 21 547 AD [Read More …]
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St Maria Goretti – Feast Day – July 6 2023
St Maria Goretti is also known as Maria Teresa Goretti. She was born on October 16 1890 in Corinaldo, Province of Ancona, Marche, Italy. He died as a martyr on July 6 1902 at the [Read More …]
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St Anthony Maria Zaccaria – Feast Day – July 5 2023
St Anthony Maria Zaccaria, also known as St Anthony Mary Zaccaria, was born in 1502 in Cremona, Duchy of Milan. He died on July 5 1539. He was the founder of Barnabites religious order and [Read More …]
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Saint of the Day – 2 July – Saint Bernadine Realino, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Feast Day, Beatification Date, Canonization Date
Feast of Saint Bernadine Realino. Born on 1 December 1530 in Italy, Europe. Worked at Lecce, Italy and died on 2 July 1616 in Lecce, Italy [Read More …]
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First Martyrs of the Church of Rome – Feast Day – June 30 2023
The First Martyrs of the Church of Rome were the Christians who were murdered in the city of Rome by orders of Emperor Nero in 64 AD. These persecutions were very well captured and recorded [Read More …]
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Saint of the Day – April 29 – St. Catherine of Siena Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Feast Day, Beatification Date, Canonization Date
Feast of St. Catherine of Siena. Born on March 25, 1347 in Italy, Europe. Worked at Siena, Florence and Rome and died on April 29, 1380 (aged 33) in Rome, Italy [Read More …]