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POPE ST. JOHN PAUL II

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 22 Pope St. John Paul II was born in Poland in 1920 as Karol Wojtyla. Being a student during WWII, Wojtyla did most...
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ST. PAUL OF THE CROSS

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 20 St. Paul of the Cross lived in the beginning of the 18th century. After leaving the army, St. Paul lived a life...
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ST. JOHN DE BREBEUF & ST. ISAAC JOGUES

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 19 St. John de Brebeuf and St. Isaac Jogues were Jesuit missionaries of the 17th century, and with their companions are known as...
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ST. LUKE

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FEAST: OCTOBER 18 St. Luke is one of the four gospel writers, and he also wrote the Acts of the Apostles. He was a gentile...
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ST. IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 17 St. Ignatius was consecrated the Bishop of Antioch in Syria by St. Peter. Ignatious was a disciple of St. John, and he...
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ST. MARGARET MARY ALACOQUE

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 16 St. Margaret Mary Alacoque was born at the end of the 17th century in France. As an only child, she had a...
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ST. TERESA OF JESUS (AVILA)

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 15 St. Teresa lived in the 16th century during the protestant reformation. She grew up with a strict father who sent her to...
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POPE ST. CALLISTUS I

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 14 Callistus was born at the end of the second century in and was a slave of Christian in Rome. He was put...
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ST. CARLO ACUTIS

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 12 St. Carlo Acutis was born in London to Italian parents on May 3, 1991, but Carlo’s family soon moved to Milan, Italy,...
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POPE ST. JOHN XXIII

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 11 Born to a poor Italian family in 1881, Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli was the fourth of fourteen children. He was ordained a priest...
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OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 7 This feast was established in 1573 by Pope Pius the Fifth in gratitude for the naval victory of the Christians over the Turks...
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ST. FAUSTINA

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 5 St. Faustina was born to a poor family in Poland in 1905. As a young girl, she had a desire to enter...
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ST. FRANCIS OF ASSISI

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 4 St. Francis of Assisi was born to a wealthy Italian merchant at the end of the 12th century. At a young age,...
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HOLY GUARDIAN ANGELS

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 2 The belief of angels assisting us on our journey to heaven has been a tradition that was handed on to us from...
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ST. THERESE OF LISIEUX

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MEMORIAL: OCTOBER 1 St. Therese was born in France in 1873 as the youngest of nine children to Sts. Louis and Zelie Martin. As a...