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Sunday, July 31, 2011

July 31 : St Ignatius of Loyola, Class III

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St Ignatius of Loyola (1491 – 1556) founded the Jesuits.  Originally a soldier by profession, he underwent a conversion process induced b...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

July 30: SS Abdon and Sennen, Martyrs, Memorial

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SS Abdon and Sennen were early Persian martyrs.  The Golden Legend relates their story: "Abdon and Sennen suffered martyrdom under D...
Friday, July 29, 2011

July 29: SS Felix, Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice, Martyrs, Memorial

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c14th manuscript Today's saints are all early martyrs - Simplicius, Faustinus and Beatrice were siblings martyred under Diocletian a...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

July 26: SS Joachim and Anne, Class III

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Tradition, drawing on the (non-canonical but very early) Gospel of James, gives us Saints Joachim and Anne as the names of the father and m...
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Monday, July 25, 2011

July 25: St James the greater, Class II

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St James the Moorslayer Anonymous, 18th century, Cuzco School of Peru St James was the son of Zabadee and Salome, and brother of S...
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

July 23: Our Lady on Saturday; St Apollinaris, Bishop and Martyr, Memorial

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 c6th mosaic, Basilica of St Apollinaris in Classe, Ravenna  St Apollinarius was the first bishop of Ravenna, appointed by St Peter ac...
Friday, July 22, 2011

July 22: St Mary Magdalen, Class III

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Today is the feast of the most famous penitent saint, St Mary Magdalene.  Few saints have attracted so many attempts at revisionist histor...