Bernardine, by contrast, seems more like a human dynamo who simply took on the needs of the world.
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Paschal’s Spanish parents were poor and pious. Between the ages of seven and 24 he worked as a shepherd and began a life of mortification.
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Between May 13 and October 13, 1917, three Portuguese children received apparitions of Our Lady at Cova da Iria, near Fatima, a city 110 miles north of Lisbon.
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Devotion to these two saints goes back to the fourth century, though almost nothing is known of their lives.
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He was the second of seven children of peasant parents in Sardinia. His path to the Franciscans was unusual.
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When Joseph de Veuster was born in Tremelo, Belgium, in 1840, few people in Europe had any firsthand knowledge of leprosy (Hansen's disease).
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Born in the Castile region of Spain, John was sent at the age of 14 to the University of Salamanca to study law.
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Luchesio and Buonadonna lived in Poggibonzi, Italy, where he was a greedy merchant. Meeting Francis—probably in 1213—changed his life.
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Louis's life is inseparable from his efforts to promote genuine devotion to Mary, the mother of Jesus and mother of the Church.
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