Willibald was born in Wessex on 21 October around the year 700. After studying in a monastery in Waitham, in Hampshire, he went on a pilgrimage to Rome (c. 722) with his father.
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St. Norbert was born at Xanten in the Rhineland, about the year 1080. With this commission in hand, he became an itinerant preacher, traveling through Europe with his two companions.
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Saint Boniface was born in 675 AD, born Winfrid, Wynfrith, or Wynfryth in the kingdom of Wessex in Anglo-Saxon England, was a leading figure in the Anglo-Saxon mission to the Germanic parts.
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St. Justin Martyr was born at Flavia Neapolis about A.D 100. He taught and defended the Christian religion in Asia Minor and at Rome, where he suffered martyrdom about the year 165.
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St Joan of Arc was born on January 6, 1412, to pious parents of the French peasant class in the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she was said to have heard the voices of St. Michael
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Mary Magdalene de Pazzi was born on April 2, 1566, in Florence. But Mary Magdalene de Pazzi is not a saint because she received ecstasies and graces from God.
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St. John Baptist de Rossi, also known as Giovanni Battista de' Rossi, was born on February 22, 1698, in Voltaggio, Italy. He was the fourth child of Charles de Rossi and Frances Anfossi.
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St Bernardino of Siena was born on 8th September 1380, was an Italian priest and Franciscan missionary. He was a systematizer of Scholastic economics.
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Pope St Celestine V was born on 1215, at a place Near Isernia, Kingdom of Sicily. Also known as Pietro da Morrone was Pope for five months from 5 July to 13 December 1294.
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St. Paschal Baylon was born at Torrehermosa, in the Kingdom of Aragon, on 16 May 1540, on the Feast of Pentecost, called in Spain "the Pasch (or "Passover") of the Holy Ghost"
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