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Saint Bernadette Soubirous
Feast day: 16 April
The asthmatic miller's daughter to whom the Immaculate Conception appeared eighteen times at Massabielle in 1858, and who then hid herself in a convent at Nevers.
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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 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 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.