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Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
Feast day: 4 January
Wife, mother of five, widow and convert from the Episcopal Church, who founded the first American community of religious sisters and the first free Catholic school for girls in the United States.
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Saint Gianna Beretta Molla
Feast day: 28 April
An Italian paediatrician, wife and mother of four who, facing a tumour during pregnancy, refused treatment that would have ended her child's life and died a week after giving birth.
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Saint Joseph
Feast day: 19 March
The just man chosen to be the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus, a silent model of faith, obedience and hidden labour.
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Saint Monica
Feast day: 27 August
The persevering mother whose seventeen years of prayer obtained the conversion of her son Augustine.
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Saint Peter the Apostle
Feast day: 29 June
The fisherman Jesus renamed Peter — the rock — who denied his Lord, was forgiven, led the apostles, and was martyred in Rome.
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Saint Rita of Cascia
Feast day: 22 May
Wife, mother, widow and Augustinian nun, who forgave her husband's murderers, ended a family feud and bore a wound of the crown of thorns for fifteen years.
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Saint Thomas More
Feast day: 22 June
Humanist, lawyer, author of Utopia, husband and father, Lord Chancellor of England, beheaded for refusing to accept Henry VIII's claim to headship of the Church — 'the king's good servant, but God's first'.