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Saint Catherine of Siena
Feast day: 29 April
A dyer's daughter with no formal schooling who counselled popes, worked for peace in Italy and became a Doctor of the Church.
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Saint Dominic de Guzmán
Feast day: 8 August
The Castilian canon who answered heresy with learned, poor and joyful preaching, founding the Order of Preachers and spreading the Rosary.
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Saint Martin de Porres
Feast day: 3 November
The mulatto son of a Spanish nobleman and a freed African woman who became a Dominican lay brother in Lima, healer of the poor and patron of interracial justice.
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Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati
Feast day: 4 July
A Turin engineering student, mountaineer and lay Dominican who hid a life of daily Eucharist and secret service of the poor behind an exuberant friendship, and died of poliomyelitis at twenty-four.
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Saint Rose of Lima
Feast day: 23 August
Isabel Flores de Oliva, called Rose, lived a hidden life of prayer, penance and care of the sick poor in a garden hut in colonial Lima, and became the first canonized saint of the New World.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
Feast day: 28 January
The greatest theologian of the Middle Ages, author of the Summa Theologiae, who showed that faith and reason cannot contradict each other.