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St. Agatha

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  • Grew up beautiful
  • Wealthy
  • Refused Sex
  • Breasts cut off
  • Tortured
  • Martyr
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St. Athanasius

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  • Fought against Arian Heresy
  • Born in Egypt
  • Exiled 5 times
  • Doctor + Bishop of the church
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St. Augustine

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  • Partied
  • Mom –> St. Monica
  • Doctor of the church
  • “Lord make me pure but not yet.”
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St. Ceclia

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  • Given to be married
  • Heard a song from God
  • Locked in hot fires-did not even sweat
  • Beheaded
    - Died 3 days later
    - Converted 400 people
  • Incorruptible body
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St. Clare

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  • Wealthy father
  • Heard St. Francis preach
  • Went to a nunnery
  • Only husband is Christ (Bride of Christ)
  • Stopped an army with the Eucharist
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St. Faustina

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  • Our Lady of Mercy
  • Life lived for others
  • Diary
  • Visions of Jesus
  • Died of Tuberculosis
  • Divine Mercy Chaplet
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St. Francis of Assisi

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  • Rich
  • Partied as a teen
  • Joined the Army
  • Rebuilt the church
  • Gave up wealth
  • Created the Franciscan Monks
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St. Joan of Arc

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  • Visions
  • Save France
  • Battle of New Orleans
  • Burned @ the stake
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St. Gerard

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  • Poor
  • Apprentice/Servant to the Bishop
  • Lay Brother
  • Doing will of God
  • Handkerchief + Pregnant woman
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St. Kateri Tekakwitha

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  • Orphaned @ 4 yrs. old (family died to smallpox)
  • Mohawk village
  • Catholicism
  • Ran Away
  • 1st native american saint
  • Vow of chastity
  • Self Tortured
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St. Lucy

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  • Rich
  • Christian during persecution
  • Refused to marry pagan man
  • Could not be moved or set on fire
    - Stabbed and died
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St. Maria Goretti

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  • Poor
  • Mother Widowed
  • Almost rapped —> stabbed 14 times
  • Forgave rapist on death bed
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St. Maximillian Kolbe

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  • 2 Crowns
  • Militia Immaculate
  • Beaten to death
  • Auschwitz
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St. Michael

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  • Combat Satan
  • Escort to heaven
  • Call men to heavenly judgement
  • Champion of the Church
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St. Monica

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  • Dedicated life to praying for conversion of son and husband
  • Married Pagan
  • Chased down son
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St. Patrick

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  • Wealth Scott
  • Captured by pirates
  • Forced to work as a Shepard in Ireland
  • Escaped
  • Became a priest
  • returned to Ireland
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St. Albert the Great

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  • Doctor of the church
  • Taught St. Thomas Aquinas
  • Discovered Arsenic
  • Formulated the Natural Law
  • Writings in Chem.,Philosophy, and Bio.
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St. Brigid of Ireland

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  • Inspired to feed and heal the poor- Gave butter from family store to help feed the poor
  • Father tried to sell her to the king—> refused to marry
  • Prayed for God take away her beauty
    • Prayer Answered
  • Beauty restored when she became a nun
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St. Joseph

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  • Jesus’s earthly father
  • Carpenter
  • Hard working and dedicated
  • Mary + Jesus with him when he died
  • No recorded words in the Bible (Lead by example)
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St. Genesius

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  • Lived during Christian Persecution
  • Wanted to do a play that mocked christianity
  • In the play he was Baptized and converted in real life
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St. George

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  • Son of roman officer
  • Joined army
  • Tempted to turn away but never gave in
  • Slew a Dragon
  • Made a sign of the cross and converted witnesses
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St. Louise De Merillac

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  • Met St. Vincent De Paul
  • “Daughters of Charity”
    • Est. 40 houses to help the sick and poor
  • Many followers
  • Director of training center
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St. Moses the Black

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  • Egyptian Slave
  • Suspected of murder
  • Ran away to join bandits in the desert
  • Hid inside monastery
  • Converted
  • Protected monastery from other bandits and converted them
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St. Philomena

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  • When 13 yrs. old Diocletian wanted to marry her as a peace treaty
  • refused to marry and took a vow of chastity
  • locked up and tortured
  • Had a vision of Mary who healed her
  • 3 attempts to heal her failed
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St. Raphael

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  • Name: God Heals
  • Healing attributed to him
  • Ark Angles
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St. Rose of Lima

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  • Changed name to rose because she was very beautiful
  • Many people wanted to marry her
  • Took vow of virginity and disfigured face with pepper and rocks as well as cut hair
  • Physical punishment as penance
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St. Sebastian

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-Entered Army to defend Christians
-Converted many soldiers to Christianity
-Reported and sentenced to death
Beaten to death

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St. Stephan

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  • Deacon in early Christian church
  • 1st disciple of Jesus to become a martyr
  • Stoned to death
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St. Therese of Liseux

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  • Wanted to be a saint –> grew up holy
  • Converted @ 14 yrs. old
  • “Little Way” every day make small sacrifices for God
  • Died at 24
  • Doctor of the church
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St. Thomas Aquinas

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  • Dominican monk –>Priest
  • Taught in a university
  • Greatest teacher of the catholic church
  • Work influenced theology
  • Summa Theologica
  • Doctor of the church
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St. Vitus

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  • Converted @ 12
  • Arrested
  • Escaped & fled to Rome
  • Healed the Emperor but would not credit the Pagan gods
  • Tortured with burning oil
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St. Dymphna

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  • Mother died & Father wanted to marry her
  • Refused to marry Father
  • Father tortured her and she still refused
  • Beheaded by Father w/ sword
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St. Isidore

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  • Brother taught him and abused him if he got an answer wrong
  • Comes from a family of saints
  • Bishop for 37 yrs.
  • Converted group of barbarians
  • Doctor of the church

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