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Prince of Visigothic Spain, and martyr. He was the son of Leovigild the Visigoth, king of Spain, and was raised as an Arian. His wife, Indegundis, converted him from that heresy, which brought about his disinheritance by Leovigild and his defeat at Seville, Spain, by his father. When Hermenegild ...

Zeno (d. 371) + Bishop of Verona, Italy, theological writer. A native of Africa, he was named bishop in 362 and proved an ardent opponent of Arianism. He also promoted discipline among the clergy and in liturgical life, built a cathedral, and founded a convent. Zeno wrote extensively on the virgin ...

Missionary. Born at Saint-Germain, France, circa 1125, he served as a canon at the church of St. Genevieve, Paris, under the great Abbot Suger until about 1170, when he was sent to Denmark with the mission of reforming the canons at Eskilsoe at the request of the bishop of Roskilde. He became abbot ...

There is a saint called Benedict the Black or Benedict the Moor. He was born a slave near Messina, Italy. He was freed by his master and became a solitary, eventually settling with other hermits at Montepellegrino. He was made superior of the community, but when he was about thirty-eight, Pope Pius ...

Orphaned at the age of seven, Asteria Annunciata Cocchetti, of Rovato, Italy, was raised by her pious grandmother. At the age of seventeen, she opened in her grandmothers home a school for needy girls. When six years later her grandmother died, Annunciata had to leave her native village and the ...

St. Gemma Galgani, also known as the Flower of Lucca, was an Italian mystic often referred to as the Daughter of Passion, for her intense replication of the Passion of Christ. She was born on March 12, 1878, in a small Italian town near Lucca. At a very young age, Gemma developed a love for ...

A Camaldolese hermit, originally a German merchant. He was traveling on business and stopped at Murano, Italy, where he became a Camaldolese. Daniel was slain by robbers.

Irish abbot of Armagh, Ireland, for four decades. He is also listed as Gilda-Marchaibeo. He governed the monastery of Sts. Peter and Paul.

Made the wrong decision four or five years ago and the word that she relates to that the president called the vice president. i apologize for being impolite, but do you remember what she said her father called him. the p word. they have to this development underscored by the directness of those conversations, two men at the highest levels of power in this nation talking without intermediaries or assistance, working on their behalf here with two very different takes on this. karen friedman agnes ...

While praying in church, Conon, a Basilian monk of Naso, Sicily, resolved to make a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. In the Holy Land, he experienced a vision of a serpent coiling itself around the throat of a certain priest. At once Conon went to the priest and related the vision as a warning to him. The ...