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Blessed Mark of Aviano
Born
17 November 1631 at Aviano, Italy as Carlo Domenico Cristofori
Died
13 August 1699 of cancer in Vienna, Austria
Beatified
27 April 2003 by Pope John Paul II
Born
28 January 1572 at Dijon, Burgundy, France
Died
• 13 December 1641 at the Visitationist convent at Moulins, France of natural causes
• relics at Annecy, Savoy (in modern France
Canonized
16 July 1767 by Pope Clement XIII
Patronage
• against in-law problems
• against the death of parents
• forgotten people
• parents separated from children
• widows
Born
16 July 1194 at Assisi, Italy
Died
11 August 1253 of natural causes
Canonized
26 September 1255 by Pope Alexander IV
Patronage
• embroiderers, needle workers
• eyes, against eye disease
• for good weather
• gilders, gold workers, goldsmiths
• laundry workers
• telegraphs
• telephones
• television (proclaimed on 14 February 1958 by Pope Pius XII)
• television writers
• Poor Clares
• Assisi, Italy
• Santa Clara Indian Pueblo
Representation
• host
• monstrance
• woman with a monstrance in her hand(s)
Saint Lawrence of Rome
Born
at Huesca, Spain
Died
• cooked to death on a gridiron on 10 August 258 in Rome, Italy
• tradition says that the ashes of his burned body were dispersed by the winds, and appear at different places around the world on his feast day
• buried in the cemetery of Saint Cyriaca on the road to Tivoli, Italy
• tomb was later opened by Pelagius to inter the body of Saint Stephen the Martyr
• his mummified head is enshrined at the Quirinal Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Library in Rome
• other relics and the gridiron believes to have been his deathbed are enshrined in the crypt of the Basilica of San Lorenzo Outside the Walls, Rome
• his garments are enshrined in Our Lady’s Chapel in the Lateran Palace, Rome
Patronage
• against fire
• against lumbago
• archives, archivists
• armories, armourers
• brewers
• butchers
• chefs, cooks
• comedians, comediennes, comics
• confectioners
• cutlers
• deacons
• glaziers
• laundry workers
• librarians, libraries
• paupers, poor people
• restauranteurs
• schoolchildren, students
• seminarians
• stained glass workers
• tanners
• vine growers, vintners, wine makers
• ---
• Ceylon, Sri Lanka
• ---
• 38 cities and dioceses
Representation
• book of Gospels
• cross
• gridiron
• deacon holding a book
• deacon holding a gridiron
• deacon holding a bag of money
• purse of money
Born
12 October 1891 at Breslaw, Dolnoslaskie, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland) as Edith Stein
Died
• gassed on 9 August 1942 in the ovens of Oswiecim (a.k.a. Auschwitz), Malopolskie, Poland
• body cremated
Canonized
11 October 1998 by Pope John Paul II
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