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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 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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Dionisio della Natività

Peter Berthelot was born in Honfleur (Calvados, France) on December 12, 1600 and at a very young age he gave himself to navigation, traveling to Spain, England, America. In 1619 he went to India, where, as...

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Elia di S. Clemente

Theodora Fracasso was born in Bari on 17th of January 1901, the third child of Giuseppe Fracasso and Pasqua Cianci and was baptized four days later by her uncle Fr Carlo Fracasso with the name of...

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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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Eufrasio di Gesù Bambino

Eufrasio was born in Cancienes (Spain) on February 8, 1897 and was baptized the following day. He spent his infancy and childhood under the tutelage of his grandfather Vincenzo in La Cuesta. After a brief stay...

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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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Giuseppa Naval Girbes

Maria Josefa was born on December 11, 1820, 32 kilometres from Valencia. She was the eldest of five children of Francisco Naval and Josefa Maria Girbés. At the age of eight she received the sacrament of...

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Maria Candida dell’Eucarestia

Maria Barba was born on 16 January 1884 into the bosom of a deeply believing family, but which resolutely opposed her religious vocation, manifested since the age of fifteen. Maria, in fact, would have to wait...

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Maria degli Angeli (Fontanella)

Marianna Fontanella was born in Turin on 7th of January 1661 to the family of the Counts of Fontanella. Her mother came from the Tana di Chieri, «related in the second and third degree to Blessed...

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Maria dell’Incarnazione (Avrillot)

Barbara Avrillot had the merit of introducing the Carmelite reform of Saint Teresa of Avila to France. Born in Paris in 1566 to a noble family, she studied with the Minor Sisters of Humility of Our...

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Maria di Gesù (Lopez de Rivas)

María López de Rivas Martínez was born in Tartanedo (Spain) to a wealthy family, lost her father at the age of four and found herself heir to a large fortune. In 1577, when the reformer Teresa...

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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 Felicia di Gesù Sacramentato

María Felicia Guggiari Echeverría, known as Chiquitunga (little one), was a young woman who lived in Paraguay in the first half of the twentieth century. She was born in Villarrica (Republic of Paraguay) on January 12,...

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Maria Giuseppina di Gesù Crocifisso

Giuseppina Catanea (Blessed Mary Josephine of Jesus Crucified) was born in Naples on February 18, 1896. After commercial studies, in 1918 she entered the monastery of Sts Teresa and Joseph of the Discalced Carmelite nuns, built...

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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 Sagrario di San Luigi Gonzaga

Elvira was born in Lillo, Spain, on January 8, 1881, to Ricardo Moragas and Isabel Cantarero, the third of four children. Following in her father's footsteps she became the first woman in her country to obtain...

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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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Martyrs of Rochefort (Leonard and 2 Companions)

During the French revolution, the Constituent Assembly in 1789, after confiscating all ecclesiastical property and suppressing religious institutes, decreed the Civil Constitution of the clergy, by which bishops and parish priests had to be elected by...

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Redento della Croce

Peter Berthelot was born in Honfleur (Calvados, France) on December 12, 1600 and at a very young age he gave himself to navigation, traveling to Spain, England, America. In 1619 he went to India, where, as...

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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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