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Saint Anthony of Padua
Feast day: 13 June
An Augustinian scholar who became a Franciscan preacher of extraordinary power, famous today as the finder of lost things.
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Saint Clare of Assisi
Feast day: 11 August
The noblewoman of Assisi who fled her family on Palm Sunday night to follow Francis in radical poverty and founded the contemplative Poor Clares.
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Saint Francis of Assisi
Feast day: 4 October
A wealthy merchant's son who renounced everything to live the Gospel in radical poverty, founding an order that renewed the medieval Church.
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Saint Marianne Cope
Feast day: 23 January
A German-American Franciscan sister and hospital founder who answered Hawaii's call for help with leprosy when fifty other congregations refused, and cared for Saint Damien and the exiles of Molokai for thirty years.
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Saint Maximilian Mary Kolbe
Feast day: 14 August
Polish Franciscan publisher and missionary who offered his life in place of a father condemned to die of starvation at Auschwitz.
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Saint Pio of Pietrelcina
Feast day: 23 September
A Capuchin priest who bore the visible stigmata for fifty years, spent his life in the confessional, and founded a great hospital for the suffering.