Adeodato di S. Pietro
The Rev. Father Adeodatus of St. Peter, after being ordained a priest on July 31, 1927, left for India a few weeks later. He arrived at Carmel Hill Monastery, Trivandrum, on November 1, 1927. As a...
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Agostino Maria del SS.mo Sacramento (Hermann Cohen)
Hermann Cohen born in Hamburg, Germany, on November 10, 1820, to an old Jewish family, showed an extraordinary talent for the piano from the age of four. In 1833, at the age of twelve, he left...
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Alfonso Maria dello Spirito Santo (Mazurek)
Alphonsus Mary of the Holy Spirit (Mazurek) was born on the first of March, 1891, in Baranówka, near Lubartów, Poland. In 1908 he entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites in Czerna, taking the name of Brother...
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Aloisio Maria Benziger (vescovo)
Aloysius Benziger was born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, on 31st of January 1864 as the fourth child and second son of Johannes Adelrich Benziger and Anna Maria Koch von Boswayal. The Benziger family belonged to the nobility...
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Anastasio Alberto Ballestrero (cardinale)
Anastasio Ballestrero was born in Genoa on October 3, 1913, the first of five children of Giacomo Ballestrero and Antonietta Daffunchio. He entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites. On 6th of June 1936 he was ordained...
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Anita Cantieri
Anita Cantieri was born in Lucca (Italy) on March 30, 1910. Her parents, Davino and Annunziata, were countrypeople of modest means; they had 12 children. Shortly after her birth on April 3rd, she was baptized; received...
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Anna di Gesù
Anna de Lobera Torres was born in Medina del Campo (Castile) on 25 November 1545 and died in Brussels on 4 March 1621. In 1570, with the religious name of Anna of Jesus, she was introduced...
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Anna di S. Agostino
Anna of St Augustine was born in Valladolid on the 11th of December, 1555. In 1577 she was accepted at the Carmelite monastery of Malagon (Spain) where in 1578 she made her solemn profession. Favoured by...
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Anna di San Bartolomeo
Anne of St Bartholomew was born in Almendral (Avila─Spain) on October 10, 1549, living her adolescence by working in the fields; but even then she was graced by great gifts of the mystical order. At the...
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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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Antonio Augusto Intreccialagli (vescovo)
Augusto Intreccialagli was born in Montecompatri (Italy) on February 18th, 1852. He entered the novitiate of the Roman Province of the Discalced Carmelites in 1868 and was ordained a priest on May 2nd, 1875. His outstanding...
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