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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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Saint Agnes of Montepulciano

1268 - 1317

Feast day: April 20

Agnes became known as a visionary and performed miracles.

Saint Agnes of Montepulciano was born into a noble Italian family. At a young age, her spiritual life consisted of prayer and penance. At 9 she entered the local Franciscan monastery and was elected Abbess at 15. After she had a vision from St. Dominic, she led her order to embrace the rule of St. Augustine as members of the Dominicans. Agnes was gifted with many visions, once even holding the child Jesus, and receiving Holy Communion from an angel. She interceded for people suffering from mental and physical illness. She died after a long illness and was found to be incorrupt with a perfumed liquid that flowed from her hands and feet.

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Blessed Clare (Chiara) Bosatta

1858-1887

Feast Day: April 20

Baptized Dina, also known as Chiara de Pianello, Blessed Clare Bosatta and her sister, Marcellina both cared for the poor, uneducated children and the neglected elderly at their local parish, administered by St. Luigi Guanella, their priest. So when he asked them to help start the House of Divine Providence, serving the poor and the religious order, Daughters of St. Mary of Providence, they eagerly accepted. In 1887, both sisters contracted tuberculosis. Clare served as superior of the community for a time. A contemplative, she offered God her own life to protect raise, and educate children and young people in difficulty. She died at the age of 29 and was beatified by John Paul ll, April 21, 1991.

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Venerable Father Augustus Tolton

1854-1897

Father Augustus Tolton was born into slavery in 1854. During the Civil War, his mother and siblings fled to Quincy Illinois where they became members of Fr. Peter McGirr's Catholic parish. Eventually, Augustus realized he was called to the priesthood. With the help of Fr. McGirr, he studied in Rome and was ordained in 1886, becoming the first Roman Catholic priest in the United States publicly known to be black. As pastor of St. Monica's in Chicago, IL. Fr. Tolton persevered through post-Civil War America with patience, humility, and courage until he was forced to leave because of illness. He died of heat stroke in 1897. 

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Sr. Blandina (Maria Rosa) Segale 

Servant of God

1850-1941

Sister Blandina brought the Catholic faith to the American frontier. Born in Italy, her family emigrated to the U.S. when she was 4 yrs. old. She joined St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s Sisters of Charity and was soon assigned to work in Colorado and later in New Mexico. Teaching was her main work but she also started orphanages and hospitals. Living in the lawless West, she disarmed gunfighters, lynch mobs and bandits (Billy the Kid) with her kindness. Sister returned to Cincinnati in 1894 to work with the poor Italian immigrants. She died of natural causes at 91 years old.

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Venerable Henriette DeLille

Servant of Slaves

1812-1862

Patronage: Racial justice

Henriette Delille was born, a "free woman of color" in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1812. Her father was a white man of French descent. Henriette founded the Sisters of the Holy Family, a Black religious congregation, to care for the slaves, free people of color, elderly, infirmed and poor, catechizing and providing for their physical needs. She worked heroically to bring people to God through reform, peaceful direction, and missionary work until her death at 52. She is the first United States native-born African American whose cause for canonization has been opened by the Catholic Church. 

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Saint Benedict Joseph Labre

Beggar of Perpetual Adoration 1748-1783 Feast day: April 16 Patronage: bachelors, rejects, mental illness, insanity, the homeless

Benedict Joseph Labre was truly eccentric, one of God's special little ones. Born in France and the eldest of 18 children, he studied under his uncle, a parish priest, to become a priest. He was unsuccessful in his attempts to enter the religious life. Then, at 16 an epidemic, that devastated his town, took even his uncle's life. He became a pilgrim, traveling from one great shrine to another, living off alms. He wore the rags of a beggar and shared his food with the poor. Filled with the love of God and neighbor, Benedict had a special devotion to the Blessed Mother and to the Blessed Sacrament. 

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Saint Drogo

1105-1186

Feast Day: April 16

Patronage: baristas, coffee house owners, unattractive people, bodily ills, broken bones, cattle, sheep, shepherds, deaf people, gall stones, hernias, insanity, mentally ill people, midwives, orphans, ruptures, and sick people.

Saint Drogo was a Flemish noble orphaned at birth. He practiced mortifications as a youth, then wanting to be Christ-like he gave away his wealth and became a shepherd. He then went on pilgrimages to many of the holy sights where he contracted a disfiguring disease. The townspeople were so offended by his looks that they built him a small cell beside the church with only a window, where he received barley, water (being the patron of coffee), and the Eucharist, that he lived in for 40 years. He gave spiritual advice and many miracles are attributed to him.

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Saint Magnus Erlendsson

1080-1115

Feast Day: April 16

Patronage: Orkney Island

Saint Magnus Erlendsson was a Scottish Viking convert known for his piety and gentleness. The rule of the Island of Orkney was divided between St. Magnus and his cousin Haakon, that ended in enmity and the death of Magnus. As Magnus was struck by an ax deathblow, he forgave his cousin. A field of wildflowers grew where he lay and a “holy light and heavenly fragrance” came over his tomb where many are healed by visiting his grave.

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Saint Ruadhan of Lorrha

Died: 584

Feast Day: April 15

Patron saint of Lorrha

Saint Ruadhan of Lorrha (also known as Rowan, Rodon, Rodan), an Irish Christian, was born of the royal family of Fergus mac Echdach. He was educated by St. Finnian at the Clonard Monastery. He established a monastery at Lorrha in which he was also the abbot. He’s known for his prophecies and is one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. In 584 he died peacefully in his sleep.

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Saint Lidwina of Schiedam

1380-1433

Feast Day: April 14

Patronage: Ice skaters, sickness, bodily ills, prolonged suffering, roller skating, sick people, skaters, multiple sclerosis

Saint Lidwina was a Dutch mystic whose life was one of suffering and devotion to Our Lady. At 15, she had a skating accident that left her with a broken rib that turned gangrene. This internal infection caused her immeasurable suffering, blindness and multiple sclerosis from age 15 to 53. She also suffered the stigmata for 7 years and subsided on the Eucharist for 19 years. In a vision, she heard, "When this shall be in bloom, your suffering will be at an end.” Lidwina in a vision saw a blooming rosebush and died after Jesus Himself administered the Sacrament of Extreme Unction.

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Saint Margaret of Castello

1287 - 1320 Feast day: April 13 Patronage: Pro-life movement; the poor, crippled and the unwanted

Saint Margaret of Castello was born in Metola, Italy to noble parents who wanted a son. Because their daughter was born blind and a hunchbacked dwarf she was kept hidden and locked in a room onto the side of the parish church for 16 years, where she was fed through a small window and able to hear Mass and receive Holy Communion through another window. When she was 20 her parents took her to a shrine in Castello, where miracles were reportedly being wrought, to pray for a cure for her birth defects. When no miracle happened they abandoned her. The poor of the city took her in as their own. Margaret had to beg for her food and eventually sought shelter with some Dominican nuns. She died at the age of 33 and a crippled girl was miraculously cured at her funeral. Her body has remained incorrupt.

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