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15
Aug
The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary – 15 Aug
The feast celebrates the assumption of the body of the Blessed Virgin Mary into heaven upon her death. According to Pope Benedict XIV, ...
15
Aug
St Maximilian Kolbe, Priest & Martyr – 14 Aug
Second of three sons born to a poor but pious Catholic family in Russian occupied Poland. His parents, both Franciscan lay tertiaries, ...
15
Aug
St Clare, Virgin – 11 August
Clare’s father was a count, her mother the countess Blessed Orsolana. Her father died when the girl was very young. After hearing Saint...
06
Aug
St John Vianney, Priest – 04 August
He was the son of a peasant farmer, and a slow and unpromising candidate for the priesthood: he was eventually ordained on account of h...
12
Jul
St Kateri Tekawitha – 14 July
Daughter of a Christian Algonquin woman captured by Iroquois and married to a non-Christian Mohawk chief. Orphaned during a smallpox ep...