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Saint Agnes of Rome
Feast day: 21 January
A Roman girl of about twelve who refused marriage and sacrifice to the gods, choosing death rather than betray her consecration to Christ; the most celebrated virgin martyr of the Latin Church.
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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 Cecilia
Feast day: 22 November
One of the most venerated martyrs of the Roman Church, whose legend of singing to God in her heart on her wedding day made her the patroness of sacred music.
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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 Joan of Arc
Feast day: 30 May
A peasant girl who, guided by voices she attributed to Saints Michael, Catherine and Margaret, lifted the siege of Orléans and was burned as a heretic at nineteen, later declared innocent and canonized.
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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 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 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.