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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, ...
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, ...
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...
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...
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...