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Saint André Bessette
Feast day: 6 January
An illiterate, sickly Quebec porter of Holy Cross whose devotion to Saint Joseph drew thousands of cures and built the Oratory of Mount Royal.
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Saint Benedict of Nursia
Feast day: 11 July
The monk whose short, humane Rule shaped Western monasticism and, with it, the culture of medieval Europe.
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Saint Gregory the Great
Feast day: 3 September
Roman prefect turned monk and then pope, Gregory fed a starving city, negotiated with the Lombards, reformed the liturgy and chant that bear his name, and sent Augustine of Canterbury to convert the English.
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Saint Jerome
Feast day: 30 September
The fiercest and most learned of the Latin Fathers, who left Rome for a cave in Bethlehem and translated the whole Bible from Hebrew and Greek into the Latin Vulgate that the West read for sixteen centuries.
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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.