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St. Peregrine Laziosi

1260-1345

Feast day: May 1

Patronage: Cancer and AIDS victims

The youthful Italian St. Peregrine was so politically opposed to the papacy, that he struck St. Philip Benizi, who was trying to preach reconciliation. Being forgiven by the saint, he dramatically converted. Saint Peregrine eventually joined the Servants of Mary (The Servites) and became a priest. He dedicated his life to the sick, poor and the fringes of society. He was healed of a cancerous leg infection after contemplating Christ crucified, the evening before his leg was to be amputated. 

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 Pope Saint Pius V

1504-1572

Feast Day: April 30 (New), May 5 (Trad)

Patronage: Bosco Marengo, Italy

Pope from 1566-1572

Saint Pope Pius V, a Dominican, was a leader of the Catholic Reformation, especially by implementing the Council of Trent reforms. He established a Catechism, a missal, a seminary system, used a Tridentine approach to learning and preaching, had a residency requirement for Bishops and reformed women’s religious life. This formed the foundation of the Catholic Church for the next 500 years. In 1571, St. Pius V was instrumental in gathering a coalition of nations and petitioning prayers of Our Blessed Mother to save Europe from the Islamic Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Lepanto. He declared Mary as Our Lady of Victory because of this decisive battle. He died of natural causes.

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Saint Marie of the Incarnation

October 28, 1599 - April 30, 1672

Feast Day: April 30

Patronage: against impoverishment, against loss of parents, poor people, and widows

Canonized: April 3, 2014, by Pope Francis

Saint Marie of the Incarnation (Marie de L’Incarnation), a French Ursuline nun, was sent to New France (Canada) to establish the Ursuline Order.  She has been credited with founding the first girls' school and with missionary efforts in the education of the native people, all the while experiencing mystical visions and suffering periods of spiritual aridity. Called “Marie of the Ursulines”, she compiled dictionaries in Algonquin and Iroquois and taught the Indians the rest of her life until her death of a liver illness in 1672.

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Saint Catherine of Siena

Doctor of the Church

1347-1380

Feast Day: April 29, (New), April 30 (Trad)

Patronage: against fire, bodily ills,  firefighters, illness, Italy, miscarriages, people ridiculed for their piety, sexual temptation, sick people, sickness

Catherine was the youngest of 25 children. She started having mystical experiences and visions when she was only 6. She became a Dominican tertiary at 16. A brilliant theologian, although she never had any formal education, she persuaded the Pope to go back to Rome from Avignon, in 1377, and when she died she was endeavoring to heal the Great Western Schism. In 1375 she received the Stigmata, which was visible only after her death. She died when she was only 33, and her body was found incorrupt in 1430.

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Saint Adjutor

1070 - April 30, 1131

Feast Day: April 30

Patronage: swimmers, drowning victims, bargemen, yachtsmen, Vernon

Saint Adjutor, born in Vernon, France, was a crusader who was captured by Muslims during the First Crusade. He was chained, tortured, and locked in a prison off the coast of Palestine. Miraculously, he escaped from his cell with the help of St. Madeleine and St. Bernard by swimming to safety. He is credited with calming a whirlpool that had caused the wrecking of many boats by throwing in the chains he wore when in captivity. He returned to France and entered the Abbey of Tiron. There he became a recluse, remaining recollected until his death on April 30. 

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Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

1922-1962

Feast Day: April 28

Patronage: mothers, physicians, preborn children

Gianna was an Italian pediatrician, wife, and mother who is best known for refusing both an abortion and a hysterectomy when she was pregnant with her fourth child, despite knowing that continuing with the pregnancy could result in her death. Gianna died a week after giving birth to her child, who was present at her mother’s canonization in 2004.

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 Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort

1673 - 1716

Feast Day: April 28

Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, a French Catholic priest, and confessor was known in his time as a preacher and was made a missionary apostolic by Pope Clement XI. As well as preaching, Montfort wrote a number of books and is known for his particular devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Rosary.  Two of his most notable works are True Devotion to Mary and The Secret of the Rosary.  

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Saint Peter Chanel

1803-1841

Feast Day: April 28

Patronage: Oceania

Saint Peter Chanel was born in France and ended his life as the protomartyr of Oceania. Peter was attracted to the missionary life and became a Marist priest and made the 10-month journey to Futuna Island in Oceania. With courage and patience, he learned the language and endeavored to convert the natives, whose chieftain had just banned cannibalism. When the chieftain's son asked to be baptized, persecution climaxed with St. Peter being clubbed to death. Within a year after his death, the whole island converted and has remained Catholic to this day.

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Saint Peter Chanel

1803-1841

Feast Day: April 28

Patronage: Oceania

Saint Peter Chanel was born in France and ended his life as the protomartyr of Oceania. Peter was attracted to the missionary life and became a Marist priest and made the 10-month journey to Futuna Island in Oceania. With courage and patience, he learned the language and endeavored to convert the natives, whose chieftain had just banned cannibalism. When the chieftain's son asked to be baptized, persecution climaxed with St. Peter being clubbed to death.  Within a year after his death, the whole island converted and has remained Catholic to this day.

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Saint Zita of Lucca

c.1212-1272                 

Feast day: April 27

Patronage: Domestic workers, homemakers, lost keys, people ridiculed for their piety, rape victims, single laywomen, waitresses, Italian City of Lucca

Saint Zita of Lucca was born in Italy to a poor family. She grew up as an obedient child doing God’s will. At age 12, she became a housekeeper to a wealthy family in Lucca and ended up staying for 48 years. Daily Mass and prayers, along with her duties as a housekeeper, were part of her routine. She did these so perfectly that the other servants were jealous, but she won them over with her generous spirit. Initially, her employers were concerned with her gifts to the poor but accepted her acts of charity and “ trusted her with the keys” of freedom of the household to care for the poor, sick, and the prisoners. Her body is incorrupt to this day. On April 27th the people of Lucca bake bread and bring flowers to the church of San Frediano.

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Our Lady of Good Counsel Feast Day: April 26

Our Lady of Good Counsel is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary after a miraculous painting. Tradition has it that during celebrations on the feast of St. Mark, in 1467, in Genazzano, Italy, a cloud descended on an unfinished wall of the church of Santa Maria, amid “sweet music.” When it dissipated an image of Our Lady appeared; 18” square, no thicker than an eggshell, suspended in the air. Many pilgrims visit the church including Popes UrbanVII, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Saints Aloysius Gonzaga, Alphonsus Liguori and John Bosco. Miracles continue to occur, even today.

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St. Mark the Evangelist 1AD-68 Feast Day: April 25 Patronage: notaries, secretaries, pharmacists, lawyers, lions, prisoners, glaziers, Venice

Saint Mark is one of the Gospel writers and a member of the tribe of Levi. He is believed to be "John Mark” in the Acts of the Apostles and the cousin of St. Barnabas. They joined St. Paul on the first mission to Antioch in 44AD. Mark was St. Paul’s “trusted companion” especially when Paul was imprisoned in Rome. St. Mark died a martyr in Alexandria and his relics are enshrined at the Cathedral of St. Mark in Venice.

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The Month of the Holy Eucharist

“Our sharing in the Body and Blood of Christ has no other purpose than to transform us into that which we receive.” ~Pope St Leo the Great

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Saint George

Died: 303

Feast Day: April 23

Patronage: England, crusaders, soldiers

Saint George was a Roman soldier of Greek Christian origin. He was a Praetorian guard for Diocletian who valued his service. When the Emperor ordered the soldiers to sacrifice to the gods, St. George refused, even after Diocletian offered him land, money, and slaves. George was then tortured and decapitated. He is one of the 14 Holy Helpers and a prominent military patron often depicted fighting a dragon used to represent the devil. Today he’s known and revered by both Christians and Muslims.

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Saint Theodore of Sykeon 

 Died: 613

Feast Day: April 22

Patronage: for rain, difficult marriages, against rain

Saint Theodore of Sykeon was an abbot and bishop in the Asian Minor. He was born out of wedlock and in his youth, he practiced penances and lived an austere solitary life of prayer. He was ordained a priest at 18, with gifts of prophecy, and performed miracles of healing and exorcisms, even ending a plague through prayer. St. Theodore founded a large monastic settlement at Sykeon and was made the Bishop of Anastasiopolis in 584 but resigned after 10 years because he was neglecting his prayer and monks at Sykeon. He died in 613 in peace.

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Good Shepherd Sunday

I am the good shepherd, and I know mine and mine know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; I will lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. These also I must lead, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd. John 10: 14-16

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St. Anselm of Canterbury 

Doctor of the Church

1033-1109

Feast day: April 21

Saint Anselm is a Doctor of the church and called the “Father of Scholasticism”. His writings are comparable to St. Augustine’s. He became a monk at the Abbey of Bec and with patience, gentleness and superb teaching skills, he became prior in 1063. The Abbey became an influential monastic school of philosophy and theology. In 1093, he became the Archbishop of Canterbury where he struggled with Kings Rufus and Henry I over ecclesiastical rights and independence of the church. St. Anselm had many crosses to bear throughout his life, especially in the political realm. Though gentle and mild he wouldn’t back down when principles of faith were at stake.

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