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Bartolo Longo

Feast: October 5th • 20th century

Saint Jerome Emiliani

Feast: July 20th • 16th century

A Venetian nobleman and military captain, Jerome Emiliani converted after a miraculous deliverance from captivity by the Virgin Mary. He ded…

Saint Pulcheria, Empress of the East

Feast: September 10th • 5th century

Empress of the East in the 5th century, Pulcheria governed with wisdom and piety, protecting orthodoxy against Nestorian and Eutychian heres…

Saint Thomas of Villanova (the Almoner)

Feast: September 18th • 16th century

Born in Castile in 1488, Thomas of Villanova was an Augustinian friar famous for his scholarship and immense charity. Having become Archbish…

Saint Yves (Helory of Kermartin)

Feast: May 19th • 13th century

Born in Brittany in the 13th century, Saint Yves was an exemplary magistrate and priest, renowned for his integrity and his pro bono defense…