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Dedication of Saint Mary Major Basilica
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Dedication of Saint Mary Major Basilica

Saint Mary Major is one of the four major churches in Rome known as patriarchal basilicas. It is the largest church in the world honoring Mary. This day is also known as the feast of Our Lady of the Snows because of the Blessed Mother’s intercession during a crisis in that city.

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Blessed Urban

Blessed Urban V

December 19
Blessed Pope Urban V was a simple man who never wanted to be pope. He was quite content to remain in his Benedictine monastery. But when called to serve the Church, Blessed Urban did so with great devotion and wisdom.
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Blessed Anthony Grassi

Blessed Anthony Grassi

December 18
Blessed Anthony Grassi had a deep devotion to Our Lady of Loreto from his childhood. He joined the Oratorian Fathers at 17, and was known as a very good student. Struck by lightning at age 29, Anthony was paralyzed for ...
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Engraving of Saint Hildegard of Bingen

Saint Hildegard of Bingen

December 17
Saint Hildegard of Bingen was a remarkable woman who fulfilled many roles in her lifetime. A Benedictine nun, she became a rather well-known mystic whom Pope Eugene III encouraged to write. She ruffled feathers when she moved her monastery to ...
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Blessed Honoratus Kozminski

Blessed Honoratus Kozminski

December 16
Blessed Honoratus was born in 1829 and died in 1916. A Capuchin Franciscan, he founded many religious congregations for laypeople, and wrote many volumes of sermons and ascetical theology. A true son of the Church, he showed many signs of ...
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Statue of Blessed MAry Frances Schervier

Blessed Mary Frances Schervier

December 15
Blessed Mary Frances Schervier founded the Sisters of the Poor of Saint Francis, devoted to caring for the poor of this world. To this day they run hospitals and homes for the aged in the United States and around the ...
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Saint John of the Cross

Saint John of the Cross

December 14
Saint John of the Cross was a 16th century reformer of the Carmelite way of life. Together with Saint Teresa of Avila, he lived the primitive Rule of their Order, and paid a dear price for his commitment to reform ...
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