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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 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 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 Faustina Kowalska
Feast day: 5 October
A Polish religious sister of little schooling to whom Christ entrusted the message of Divine Mercy, the image 'Jesus, I trust in You', the chaplet and the feast of Mercy Sunday.
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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 Ignatius of Loyola
Feast day: 31 July
A soldier wounded at Pamplona who converted while convalescing and founded the Jesuits, giving the Church the Spiritual Exercises.
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Saint John of the Cross
Feast day: 14 December
Carmelite friar, poet and Doctor of the Church who mapped the soul's journey through the dark night to union with God.
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Saint John the Apostle
Feast day: 27 December
The disciple who leaned on the Lord's breast at the Last Supper, stood beneath the Cross and received Mary as his mother, and wrote the Fourth Gospel.
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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 Mary Magdalene
Feast day: 22 July
The disciple freed from seven demons who stood at the Cross and was the first witness of the Resurrection, sent by Christ to announce it to the apostles.
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Saint Philip Neri
Feast day: 26 May
The joyful Florentine priest who evangelised Renaissance Rome through friendship, laughter, music and confession, and founded the Congregation of the Oratory.
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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.
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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 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 Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
Feast day: 9 August
Jewish philosopher, assistant to Husserl and pioneer of Catholic feminism, who became a Carmelite nun and was murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz as a Jew and a Christian.
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Saint Teresa of Ávila
Feast day: 15 October
A Spanish Carmelite reformer and mystical writer who mapped the interior life and, with Saint John of the Cross, renewed her order.
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Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Feast day: 5 September
Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, the Loreto sister who left her convent to serve 'the poorest of the poor' in the streets of Calcutta and founded a congregation now present in more than 130 countries.
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Saint Thérèse of Lisieux
Feast day: 1 October
A hidden Carmelite nun who died at twenty-four and taught the 'little way' of confidence and love — now a Doctor of the Church and patroness of the missions.
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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.