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St. Peter Fourier – A parish priest and founder of the congregation of Notre Dame.  He was noted in particular for his devotion to the Mother of God and for his modesty.

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Blessed Beatrice of Este was one of the most beautiful and accomplished princesses of the Italian Renaissance.  Beatrice became a Benedictine nun at the age of 14 and later founded a religious house at the site of an abandoned monastery.

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Blessed Clare of Pisa – Widowed a short time after her marriage, and not wishing her father to negotiate her into a second arranged marriage, she fled the family home and joined the Poor Clares.  Later, she joined a Dominican convent and Clare, who favored a stricter and more vigorous interpretation of Dominican life arranged for a new convent to be built for her.

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St. Francis of Assisi – Catholic deacon and Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181. He is also known as the Patron Saint of animals and ecology.

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Elias the Proophet - Elias is the Latinized word for the name Elijah, a famous prophet and wonder-worker in the northern kingdom of Israel.

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St. Charles of Sezze – Italian friar of the Franciscan order.  As a youth he felt a desire to serve as a missionary in India but never went.  He was admitted to the Franciscan order in 1635.  Charles had a great sense of  God’s  providence and was canonized by Pope John XXIII in 1959.

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Blessed Peter Faber – French Jesuit theologian and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.  He was beatified by the Roman Catholic Church in 1872.

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St. Clotilda – Burgundian princess who married the Frankish King Clovis and eventually converted him to the Catholic faith.

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St. Roch was a Christian saint and confessor who was especially invoked against the plague and is the patron saint of invalids.

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St. John Vianney – the Cure’ of Ars was a French priest and the patron saint of parish priests.  He was renowned as a confessor and for his supernatural powers.