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Back to SearchSeptember 9: ST. PETER CLAVER: A Slave of the Slaves Forever
St. Peter Claver climbed into slave ships in Cartagena harbor before almost anyone else dared go near them.
For forty years, whenever a slave ship ar…
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September 8: BL. FRÉDÉRIC OZANAM: Show Us Your Works
Blessed Frédéric Ozanam answered a college classmate's doubt about the Church not with an argument, but with his own winter firewood.
Challenged by a…
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September 7: ST. REGINA: A Queen Who Chose Heaven
St. Regina, a teenage shepherdess secretly baptized as a baby, chose martyrdom over marriage to a Roman official.
Raised in the fields tending sheep,…
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September 6: BL. BERTRAND OF GARRIGUES: The Second Dominic
Blessed Bertrand of Garrigues walked barefoot beside St. Dominic, founding the Dominican order town by hungry town.
One of St. Dominic's first compan…
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September 5: MOTHER TERESA: Finding Jesus in the Distressing Disguise of the Poor
St. Teresa of Calcutta — Mother Teresa — heard God's call on a train to Darjeeling and never looked back.
A teaching sister in Calcutta, Teresa felt …
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September 4: SAINT ROSALIA: Alone With Christ, Never Forgotten
St. Rosalia walked away from a noble Sicilian family to live alone in a cave — then saved a plague-stricken city five centuries later.
Rosalia gave u…
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September 3: GREGORY THE GREAT: Faces Like Angels
Pope St. Gregory the Great gave up a life of power in Rome for prayer — then used the papacy to feed the hungry and send missionaries to Britain.
Gre…
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September 2: ST. INGRID OF SKÄNNINGE: Every Step a Prayer
St. Ingrid of Skänninge turned her grief as a young widow into pilgrimages all the way to Jerusalem and Rome.
Widowed young, the Swedish noblewoman I…
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September 1: VEN. MARIE-JOSEPHTE FITZBACH: The Door That Always Opened
Venerable Marie-Josephte Fitzbach turned her own grief into an open door for women no one else in Quebec would take in.
Widowed young, Marie-Josephte…
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August 31: STS. JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA AND NICODEMUS: Followers in the End
Two secret followers of Jesus — afraid their whole lives — finally stepped into the light at the foot of the Cross.
Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus…
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