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April 18: Blessed Mary of the Incarnation Acarie
If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Barbara Avrillot was born in sixteenth century France. She was pious from a young age and wanted to be a nursing sister of the poor. But her parents wanted their only child […]
April 17: Blessed Clare of Pisa
If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. When Theodora (known to her family as Thora) was born in 1362, her father was the leader of the republic in the city of Pisa, Italy. As such, he betrothed her to […]
April 16: Saint Optatus and Companions
If you enjoy this daily blog of lesser-known saints, see my book, which contains short biographies of saints for every day of the year. Not many saints have the honor of being memorialized in a poem by a famous writer. Prudentius (348-405) was a poet from northern Spain who lived after the Roman emperor Constantine […]
April 15: Saint Abundius
For the next month, there will be a daily post of a lesser-known saint each day. These are saints who aren’t in my book but who are still saints of the Church, as listed in the 2004 Martyrologium Romanum, the official list of saints published by the Vatican. These daily posts will give you a […]
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