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Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

Jane Frances was wife, mother, nun, and a foundress of a religious community. Her mother died when she was 18 months old, and her father, head of parliament at Dijon, France, became the main influence on her education. Jane developed into a woman of beauty and refinement, lively and cheerful in temperament. At 21, she married Baron de Chantal, by whom she had six children, three of whom died in infancy. When her husband died, she placed herself under the guidance of St. Francis de Sales and progressed rapidly along the way of perfection. She performed many good works for the poor and the sick. She founded the Order of the Visitation and guided it wisely. She died while on a visitation of convents of the community in 1641.

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Saint Clare of Assisi

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She was born at Assisi and came under the influence of Saint Francis. She left home at the age of 18 and, under Francis’s guidance, began a community that grew to become the order of the Poor Clares (she was later joined both by her sister and by her widowed mother). In its radical attachment to poverty the Rule of the order was much more severe than that of any other order of nuns. They also live a life of austerity and complete seclusion from the world.

St. Francis obliged Clare under obedience to accept being the abbess, she exercised the office until her last earthly breath. Clare was a noted contemplative and a caring mother to her nuns. She died at Assisi in 1253.

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Saint Laurence

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Laurence was one of the seven deacons of the Church of Rome and was executed on 10th August 258, four days after Sixtus II and his companions. By now, few of the facts of his life are known for certain: he was probably a Spaniard from Toledo.

A basilica was built over Laurence’s tomb fifty years after his death, by the Emperor Constantine, and the anniversary of his martyrdom was kept as a solemn feast – with considerably more solemnity than that of Pope Sixtus II (reason unknown). By the sixth century, it was one of the most important feasts throughout much of western Christendom. His name occurs (with Sixtus’s) in the Roman Canon of the Mass.

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Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

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Edith Stein was born from a prominent Jewish family in Breslau, Germany – now Wroclaw, Polad. As a student, she became fascinated in Philosophy, specifically Phenomenology. Excelling as a protégé of the famous philosopher, Edmund Husserl, she earned a Doctorate in Philosophy in 1916, but her academic career was impeded because she was a woman.

Reading the autobiography of Saint Teresa of Ávila brought about her conversion to Catholicism and she was baptized on 1 January 1922.

She entered a Carmelite monastery in Cologne and took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. Her order moved her to the Netherlands to keep her safe from the growing Nazi threat. But later on, she was taken to Auschwitz and killed on 9 August 1942.

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Saint Dominic

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Dominic was born in old Castile, Spain. He was trained for the priesthood by his uncle-priest, he studied and mastered arts and theology. Later on, he became a canon of the Cathedral at Osma, there an the revival of the apostolic common life described in Acts of the Apostles was attempted. In 1216 he founded the Order of Preachers, dedicated to saving souls by preaching and persuasion.

His ideal, and that of his order, i.e., contemplate trader [to pass on the fruits of contemplation] was to organically link a life with God, study and prayer in all forms, with a ministry of salvation to people by the Word of God.
Dominic died at Bologna on 6th of August 1221.

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Saint Cajetan

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Today’s saint was seemed headed for an ordinary life – he was a lawyer, then became a priest who is engaged in the work of the Roman Curia. Shortly after his ordination, his life took a characteristic turn when he joined the Oratory of Divine Love in Rome – i.e., a group devoted to piety and charity. Later on, he founded a hospital for the incurables at Venice. When he was at Vicenza, he joined a “disreputable” religious community which is consisted only of men of the lowest stations of life – there he sought out the sick and poor of the town and served them. Worn out by the troubles he saw in his Church and his home, Cajetan fell ill. When doctors tried to get him to rest on a softer bed then the boards he slept on, Cajetan answered, “My savior died on a cross. Let me died on wood at least.” He died on August 7, 1547.

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Transfiguration of the Lord

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The three Synoptic Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, tells us the story of the Transfiguration of the Lord. With remarkable agreement, all three put the event shortly after Peter’s confession of faith the Jesus is the Messiah. It was also the time when Jesus gave the first prediction of his passion and death.

The Transfiguration of the Lord can sound embarrassingly magical. Jesus goes up onto a mountain and his clothes become dazzlingly white. Prophets appear and talk to him. And then it is all over and Jesus tells his disciples to say nothing. Tradition names Mount Tabor as the site of the Transfiguration of the Lord. A church was raised at the site during the fourth century.

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Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major

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The Council of Ephesus in 431 formally proclaimed the mother of Jesus as the Mother of God, and the church (basilica) of St Mary Major on the Esquiline Hill in Rome was built shortly afterwards to celebrate her motherhood. This is the oldest church in the West that is dedicated to Our Lady.

The title “Mother of God” may seem technical or even excessive; but it emphasizes the central truth of the Incarnation, that Jesus Christ was not only a true man, but God also; and not only God, but man born of a woman.

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Saint John Vianney

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“A man with vision will overcome every obstacles and shall perform deeds that seem to be impossible.” John Marie Vianney was a man of vision. He wanted to become a priest but he has to overcome his meager from schooling, which inadequately prepared him for seminary studies.

His dedication as a confessor was his most remarkable accomplishment, that even during winter months, he would spend 11 to 12 hours of celebrating the sacrament of reconciliation. During summer months, he would increase his hearing of confession up to 16 hours. In 1929, Pope Pius XI named him as the patron saint of all Priests in the world.

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Saint Peter Julian Eymard

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Born in La Mure d’Isère, Southeastern France, Peter Julian Eymard’s faith journey drew him from being a diocesan priest of Grenoble in 1834, to joining the Marists in 1839, to founding the Congregation of the Blessed Sacrament in 1856.

In addition, Eymard coped with poverty, his father’s initial opposition to his vocation, from serious illness, a Jansenistic overemphasis on sin, and the difficulties of getting diocesan and papal approval for his own established religious community. Beyond all of this he remained a faithful servant of God.

Peter Julian Eymard was beatified in 1925 and was canonized in 1962, the day after the end of Second Vatican Council’s first session.

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Saint Jane Frances de Chantal

Saint Clare of Assisi

Saint Laurence

Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross

Saint Dominic

Saint Cajetan

Transfiguration of the Lord

Dedication of the Basilica of Saint Mary Major

Saint John Vianney

Saint Peter Julian Eymard

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