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Catholic saints are holy people and human people who lived extraordinary lives.
Each saint the Church honors responded to God's invitation to use his or her unique
gifts. God calls each one of us to be a saint. Learn about the Saint we honor
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July 14 - Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha - AmericanCatholic.org
The blood of martyrs is the seed of saints. Nine years after the Jesuits Isaac
Jogues and John de Brébeuf were tortured to death by Huron and Iroquois Indians,
a baby girl was born near the place of their martyrdom, Auriesville, New York.
She was to be the first person born in North America to be beatified. |
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| July
22 - Saint Mary Magdalen - AmericanCatholic.org
Except for the mother of Jesus, few women are more honored in the Bible than Mary
Magdalene. Yet she could well be the patron of the slandered, since there has
been a persistent legend in the Church that she is the unnamed sinful woman who
anointed the feet of Jesus in Luke 7:36-50. |
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26 - Saints Joachim & Ann, parents of Mary - AmericanCatholic.org
In the Scriptures, Matthew and Luke furnish a legal family history of Jesus, tracing
ancestry to show that Jesus is the culmination of great promises. Not only is
his mother’s family neglected, we also know nothing factual about them except
that they existed. Even the names Joachim and Ann come from a legendary source
written more than a century after Jesus died. |
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31 - Saint Ignatius Loyola - AmericanCatholic.org
The founder of the Jesuits was on his way to military fame and fortune when a
cannon ball shattered his leg. Because there were no books of romance on hand
during his convalescence, he whiled away the time reading a life of Christ and
lives of the saints. |
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Check
out American Catholic's Saints' Calendar for the Month of July - AmericanCatholic.org
This
calendar includes saints on the General Roman Calendar as well as other holy people
for each day of the year. Some feast dates on the AmericanCatholic.org calendar
fall on days other than the official feast day. |