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Blessed Elizabeth of the Trinity, OCD (French: Élisabeth de la Trinité), (July 18, 1880 – November 9, 1906) was a French Discalced Carmelite nun, mystic, and spiritual writer. She has been beatified by ...
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Charles I or Karl I (Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Maria; 17 August 1887 – 1 April 1922) was the last Emperor of Austria, the last King of Hungary (as Charles IV, Hungarian: IV. Károly) ...
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Charles Eugène de Foucauld, Viscount of Foucauld, (15 September 1858 - 1 December 1916), was a cavalry officer in the French Army, then an explorer and geographer, and finally a Catholic priest, hermit ...
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Pope Innocent V (Latin: Innocentius V; c. 1225 – 22 June 1276), born Pierre de Tarentaise, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 21 January to 22 June 1276. A member of the ...
Catholic Religious Sister, missionary, and foundress
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Hélène Marie Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville (Nantes, 21 May 1839 – Sanremo, 15 November 1904), known as the Blessed Mary of the Passion, F.M.M. (French: Mère Marie de la Passion) was a French Religious ...
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Blessed Louis Brisson (23 June 1817 – 2 February 1908) was a Roman Catholic priest who founded the congregations of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales and the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales.
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On the night of 26–27 March 1996, seven monks of the Trappist order from the Atlas Abbey of Tibhirine near Médéa, Algeria were kidnapped during the Algerian Civil War. They were held for two months, and ...
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Agnes of Jesus, OP (born Agnès Galand and also known as Agnes of Langeac; 17 November 1602 – 19 October 1634) was a French Catholic nun of the Dominican Order. She was prioress of her monastery at Langeac ...
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Hyacinthe-Marie Cormier, O.P. (8 December 1832 – 17 December 1916) was a French Dominican friar and priest, who served as the 76th Master of his Order from 1904 until 1916. He was beatified by Pope John ...
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Denis of the Nativity, OCD, sometimes called Dionysius of the Nativity, born as Pierre Berthelot, 12 December 1600, in Honfleur – 27 November 1638, in Sumatra) was a Discalced Carmelite friar in Goa. Prior ...
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Daniel Jules Alexis Brottier, C.S.Sp. (7 September 1876 – 28 February 1936), was a French Roman Catholic priest in the Congregation of the Holy Spirit (who currently refer to themselves as Spiritans) ...
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Nicolas Roland (8 December 1642 - 27 April 1678) was a French priest, canon and educator. He was a friend, contemporary and spiritual director of John Baptist de La Salle.
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Louis Martin (22 August 1823 – 29 July 1894) and Marie-Azélie "Zélie" Guérin Martin (23 December 1831 – 28 August 1877) were two married Roman Catholic French laypeople and the parents of Thérèse of L ...
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Julien Maunoir (1 October 1606 – 28 January 1683) (also Julian; Breton: Juluan Maner), was a French-born Jesuit priest known as the "Apostle of Brittany". He was beatified in 1951 by Pope Pius XII and ...
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Marie Louise Trichet, also known as Marie-Louise de Jésus (1684–1759), was a French Catholic figure who, with Louis de Montfort, founded the Congregation of religious women called Daughters of Wisdom ...
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Blessed Joan of Portugal (6 February 1452 – 12 May 1490; Portuguese: , Portuguese pronunciation: ), was a Portuguese saint, Regent and princess of the House of Aviz, daughter of King Afonso V of ...
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Rosalie Rendu, D.C., was a Daughter of Charity who was a leading worker and organizer of care for the poor of 19th-century Paris' teaming slums, suffering from the rapid migration of people to the cities ...
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Antoine-Frédéric Ozanam (23 April 1813 – 8 September 1853) was a French literary scholar, lawyer, journalist and equal rights advocate. He founded with fellow students the Conference of Charity, later ...
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The Blessed Amadeus IX (February 1, 1435, Thonon-les-Bains – March 30, 1472), surnamed the Happy was the Duke of Savoy from 1465 to 1472. He was the son of Louis, Duke of Savoy and Anne de Lusignan, d ...