Anna Maria Martel
Anne-Marie Martel was born in Le Puy-en-Velay on Thursday, 11 August 1644. She was baptised two days later and grew up with her brothers and sisters in a Christian family, receiving an excellent education. In 1666,...
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Anselmo di Sant’Andrea Corsini
Maciej was born on 24 February 1884 in Marszowice, a parish of Niegowić, in the archdiocese of Kraków (Poland) into a deeply religious and numerous family, the son of Antonio and Salomea Kowalska. In the years...
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Chiara Maria di Gesù
Clare of Carmel was born in San Miguel, El Salvador, on October 12, 1857 to Carmen López and Daniel Quirós López. Her parents decided to consult the saints to choose the name of their...
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Colomba di Gesù Ostia
The Servant of God, Colomba of Jesus in the Host (Anna Antonietta Mezzacapo) was born in Marcianise (Caserta, Italy) on June 15, 1914. Raised in a Christian family environment and taking part in parish life, she...
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Elizabeth of the Blessed Virgin Mary
ELISWA (ELIZABETH VAKAYIL) Eliswa was born in October 1832. She was the eldest of eight in a rich religious family from Vypussery (name of family residence) in Ochanthuruth. At the age of 16, Eliswa (the Malayalam...
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Emile Biayenda
Emile Biayenda was born in Mpangala, Uganda, in 1927. He was ordained a priest in 1958 in Brazzaville and immediately appointed parish priest. He was imprisoned for a few months because of his participation in the...
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Enrico de Ossó y Cervelló
Enrico de Ossó y Cervelló, a Catalan priest, was born in Vinebre (diocese of Tortosa, province of Tarragona ─ Spain) on October 16, 1840....
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Francesco di Gesù Maria Giuseppe (Palau)
Francis Palau was born on 29th of December 1811 in Aytona (Spain). In 1828, he entered the seminary of Lèrida. After completing the three years of philosophical studies and finishing the first course of theology, in...
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Giorgio Häfner – Luigi dei Sacri Cuori
BLESSED GEORG HAFNER George Hafner was born on 19 October 1900 in Wurzburg, Bavaria. His parents, Valentin and Barbara Hewig Ulsamer, were simple, humble and believing Christians who brought up George with a good education and...
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Giovanna Maria Condesa Lluch
BLESSED GIOVANNA MARIA CONDESA LLUCH Giovanna Maria Condesa Lluch was born in Valencia, Spain on 30 March 1862. When only 18, she discovered that God’s will for her was to dedicate herself and her life to...
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Giuseppe Mazzanti
Joseph Mazzanti was born in Imola, Bologna, (Italy) on June 3rd, 1879. A priest, born, raised and died in his beloved Imola, he lived passionately what was ordinary in his life and who could still say...
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Immacolato Giuseppe di Gesù
The Venerable Servant of God Immaculato Joseph of Jesus (Aldo Brienza) was born on August 15, 1922, in Campobasso (Italy). At the age of sixteen, while attending the Higher Technical Institute, he began to feel intense...
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Isabella Morfini
Bina (as every one called her) was the eldest of nine sisters and brothers. As both their mother and grandmother were ill, Bina acted as mother to all the family. Very early on she joined the...
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Isidoro della Natività della B.V.M.
The lay brother, Isidore of the Nativity of Mary (Giacomo Antonio Sciuti) was born in Carpeneto, in the province of Alessandria, Italy, on 8th of July 1696. At the end of the period of formation in...
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Juan de Palafox y Mendoza (Vescovo)
Juan de Palfox y Mendoza was born in Fitero (Navarre), Spain, on June 24, 1600, and was baptized on June 29, the feast of St. Peter, to whom he was always to have a special devotion....
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Maria degli Angeli (Operti)
Giuseppina Operti was born in Turin (Italy) on November 16, 1871 into a wealthy family. She was tested by the death of her brother and father within three months. Together with her mother, she gave herself...
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Maria Eugenio di Gesù Bambino
Henri Grialou (his secular name) was born into a modest mining family in Aveyron, in central France. Attracted by God from an early age, he wanted to be a priest. In the minor seminary he discovered...
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Maria Luisa Giuseppa del SS. Sacramento (Navarro)
Maria Luisa de la Peña Navarro was born on June 21, 1866 in Atotonilco El Alto (Jalisco), Mexico, into a family of wealthy landowners, of good manners and very charitable. At the age of 15, in...
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Maria Mercede del Cuore di Gesù
Maria Mercedes of the Heart of Jesus was born in Barcelona on March 6, 1880, into a Christian family; one of her brothers was a priest. From childhood she attended the Sisters of the Company of...
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Maria Teresa della SS. Trinità (Aycinena)
Maria Teresa de Jesus Anastasia Cayetana was born in Guatemala City on April 15, 1784, into the bosom of a wealthy family. She distributed all her possessions to follow Jesus in the consecrated life of the...
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Maria Teresa della SS. Trinità (Ysseldijk)
Teresa Ysseldijk was born on November 13, 1897, in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, the daughter of a Catholic family full of faith. After a stay of 6 years in Ochtrup, Germany, where her father died, she lived...
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Maria Teresa di San Giuseppe (Kierocińska)
Janina Kierocińska was born on 14th of June 1885 in Wieluń (Poland) into a large family of deeply religious landowners. She was baptized on June 21, 1885. Already on the day of her First Communion, June...
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Maria Teresa di San Giuseppe (Tauscher)
Anna Maria Tauscher van den Bosch was born on 19th of June 1855 in Sandow, Brandenburg, (then in Germany, now in Poland), to deeply believing Lutheran parents. Her father was a pastor of the Evangelical Church....
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Maria Veronica of the Passion
Sophie Leeves was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) on October 1st, 1823. Her father was the Anglican chaplain of the British Embassy. During adolescence a profound change took place in her. She spent many hours in...
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Maria Zanelli
Antonietta Zanelli was born in Castel Guelfo (Italy) on June 17, 1887. Born into a wealthy family, her father was the pharmacist of the village and her mother, Countess Maria Acquaderni, was the sister of Count...
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Pura Rosa del Carmen Olmos
The Servant of God Pura Rose of Carmel Olmos Professed Religious of the Carmelite Sisters of St. Teresa of Jesus (Arg.) Secundina Guadalupe Olmos was born on 26 February 1896 in the locality of La Canada...
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Rosa di San Giuseppe
Rosa Ojeda y Creus was born in Vilanova i la Geltrú on August 30, 1871 into a poor family. In 1877, following the death of her parents, she and her two siblings were taken in by...
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Saturnina del Cuore Agonizzante di Gesù
Saturnina Jassá y Fontcuberta was born in Spain on March 3, 1851 in Calaceite, an Aragonese municipality then belonging to the diocese of Tortosa in the province of Teruel. After a normal childhood and youth, Saturnina,...
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Teresa del Cuore Immacolato di Maria (Guasch y Toda)
Teresa Toda y Guasch was born in Riudecanyes (Spain) on May 28, 1848 and was baptized the next day in the parish of her hometown....
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Teresa di Gesù Bambino di Praga
Teresa Mira García was born in Algueña, Alicante - Spain on September 26, 1895. Daughter of José and Teresa, she was the second of nine children. To receive Jesus in her First Communion she established a...
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Teresa di San Giuseppe (Toda y Juncosa)
Teresa Toda y Juncosa was born in Riudecanyes, Tarragona (Spain) on August 19, 1826. When she was only 13 years old, her father died. Like the girls of her time, in her youth Teresa did not...
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Teresa Maria della Croce (Manetti)
Teresa Adelaide Cesina Manetti, was born in Campi Bisenzio, in the then hamlet of San Martino, to Gaetano Manaetti (a poultry farmer) and Rosa Bigagli, on March 2, 1846. At the age of three she lost...
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Teresa of Saint Rose of Lima
Teresa of St. Rose of Lima was born on 29th of January 1858 in George Town, Madras, India, to Peter D'Lima and Mary D'Lima. She received the name Mary Grace on baptism in St. Mary's Co-Cathedral,...
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