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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 Aloysius Gonzaga
Feast day: 21 June
An Italian marquis's heir who renounced his principality to become a Jesuit and died at twenty-three after nursing plague victims in Rome.
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Saint Carlo Acutis
Feast day: 12 October
An Italian teenager who used his gift for computers to catalogue Eucharistic miracles and died of leukaemia at fifteen, offering his sufferings for the Pope and the 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 Dominic Savio
Feast day: 6 May
A Piedmontese boy formed by Saint John Bosco at the Oratory of Turin, who died at fourteen and became the youngest non-martyr canonized saint.
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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 José Sánchez del Río
Feast day: 10 February
A fourteen-year-old Mexican boy tortured and shot in 1928 for refusing to deny Christ, who died crying out 'Viva Cristo Rey!'
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Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati
Feast day: 4 July
A Turin engineering student, mountaineer and lay Dominican who hid a life of daily Eucharist and secret service of the poor behind an exuberant friendship, and died of poliomyelitis at twenty-four.
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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 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.