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9 April
Bl Celestyna Faron (1913-44). Entered religious life. Dedicated kindergarten teacher & catechist. During WW2 ran orphanage. Arrested by gestapo for resisting Nazis, sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, digging ditches. Contacted TB & typhoid. Martyr.
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8 April
Bl Julian of St Augustine (1550-1606). Tailor’s apprentice, rejected for religious life a number of times, branded mentally unstable. Lived as a hermit; his holiness proved his sanity, finally admitted to Franciscans. Ascetic; great preacher
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7 April
St Herman Joseph (1150-1241). Fostered deep love for Our Lady from childhood, received visions. Became Norbertine priest. With pastoral work, made & fixed clocks. Chaplain to convent; gifted writer, wrote earliest hymn to the Sacred Heart.
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6 April
Bl Notker Balbulus (840-912). Monk of San Gallen, he suffered from a stammer & poor health. Gifted poet, historian, writer & hagiographer. Served as librarian, guest-master & teacher. Prayerful & gentle, patient in many adversities.
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5 April
St Maria Crescentia Höss (1682-1744). Poor, refused entry to convent because she couldn’t afford dowry. Protestant mayor obtained her entry, nuns treated her badly for years. Her holiness changed them. Elected superior. A wise guide of souls.
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4 April
St Benedict the Moor (1526-89). Son of African slaves, free from birth. Endured racist insults with patience & charity. Franciscan hermit in Sicily, served as superior of the community. Sought the lowest place, renowned for his good works.
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3 April
Prayer of St Richard of Chichester.
He uttered this prayer on his death bed, recorded by his confessor, Dominican friar, Richard Bocking.
(Original Latin below, with translation; also the popular 20th century version with added triplet)
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3 April
St Richard of Chichester (1197-1253). As a child, family fell on hard times. Notable priest, scholar. Appointed Bp, but King refused to acknowledge him & treated him badly. Richard lived an austere, holy life; exemplary pastor, miracle worker
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2 April
Bl Vilmos Apor (1892-1945) Hungarian, appointed Bp of Györ. Dedicated bishop, cared for poor & social justice. Protected Jews during WW2. Hid women from invading Russians. Killed by Russian soldier as he tried to save a woman from being raped
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1 April
St Celsus (1080-1129). Irish monk, taught in Oxford, elected Abp of Armagh. Worked to reform Church in Ireland, travelled throughout Ireland preaching reform & discipline. Suffered a great deal of opposition. Peacemaker. Man of intense faith.
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31 March
Bl Natalia Tulasiewicz (1906-45). Polish laywoman, teacher. Sent to Ravensbrück by Nazis for her faith, Christian service & resistance. Cared for other prisoners, led conferences on the Passion & Resurrection. Martyred in the gas chambers.
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30 March
Bl Restituta Kafka (1894-1943). Austrian nurse, entered religious life. Worked as nurse, great love of the poor. Gregarious & attractive. After Anschluss, opposed Nazis, hung crucifixes in hospital. Guillotined on Hitler’s personal order.
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29 March
St Berthold (1155-95). From Limoges in France, a crusader knight, who, after the Siege of Antioch, renounced military service & with others formed a community of hermits on Mount Carmel. First prior of what later became the Carmelite Order.
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28 March
St Guntramnus (532-92). King of Orléans. Though baptised, grew up without faith. Divorced his wife. When she was ill, he murdered her doctor. Converted, remorse led to repentance, life of boundless charity & service of God, the poor & Church
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27 March
Bl Francesco Faà di Bruno (1825-88). Successful career as mathematician & astronomy, after professorship became a priest in Turin. Concerned for poor & unwed mothers, established homes & school, founded congregation of sisters to help him.
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26 March
St Eutychius of Alexandria (d. 356). A subdeacon of Alexandria, he supported St Athanasius in the defence of Jesus’ divinity against the Arians. Arrested by Arians, condemned to the mines, died on his way there from abuse & beatings. Martyr.
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25 March
St Dula (d. ?). Christian virgin enslaved in household of a pagan soldier in Nicomedia. Enduring her slavery, when her ‘owner’ sought to have sex with her, deeming her his property, she fought to defend her chastity. He killed her. Martyred.
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24 March
Bl Maria Karłowska (1865-1935). Orphaned, worked as seamstress. Began to work with the sick in Poland, heard call to help abandoned & neglected. Founded a congregation to help her. Fostered a special love, concern & mission for prostitutes.
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