Joachim of the Queen of Peace was born in Sassello, Province of Savona, Italy, on February 12, 1890, to Giacomo Ramognino and Caterina Badano. He was baptized with the name of James Peter. The father preferred...
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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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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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Giovanni Antonio was born in Florence on September 14, 1674, the only son of the Marquis Donato Guadagni and his wife Maddalena, née Corsini, sister of the future Pope Clement XII. On the 3rd of May...
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John was born in in 1542 in Fontiveros near Avila, a village in Old Spanish Castile. His father Gonzalo de Yepes was thrown out of his home and disinherited for marrying a poor silk weaver, Catalina...
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John of Jesus Mary was born in the town of Calahorra in Spain on January 27, 1564 to Diego de San Pedro and Anna De Ustarroz. At the university of Alcalà de Henares, together with studies...
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John Vincent of Jesus Mary was born in Bérriz (Vizcaya – northern Spain) in 1862. Of noble and austere Basque lineage of soldiers, educated in a family full of affection, while still a boy he broke...
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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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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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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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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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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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