Cassian, or Saint Cassian of Imola, or Cassius was a Christian saint of the 4th century. His feast day is August 13.
John Cassian
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| Born | c.360Scythia Minor(modern-day Dobrogea, Romania) |
| Died | c. 435 Massilia, Gaul (modern-day Marseilles, France) |
| Venerated in | Eastern Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church Anglican Communion Eastern Catholic Churches |
| Major shrine | Monastery of St Victor, Marseille |
Meaning of CassianCassian means “empty†and “vain†(from Latin “cassusâ€).
Saint Cassius was a bishop of Narni in Umbria from 537 to 558, the date of his death. The relics of Saint Cassius were built in a restored shrine later known as the Sacello di San Cassio. Juvenal's relics are said to have been hidden.
John Paul II declared him "The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century." His feast day is 14 August, the day of his death.
Maximilian Kolbe.
| SaintMaximilian KolbeO.F.M. Conv. |
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| Canonized | 10 October 1982, Vatican City by Pope John Paul II |
| Major shrine | Basilica of the Omni-mediatress of All Glories |
Bede wrote scientific, historical and theological works, reflecting the range of his writings from music and metrics to exegetical Scripture commentaries.
The first saint canonized by a pope was Ulrich, bishop of Augsburg, who died in 973 and was canonized by Pope John XV at the Lateran Council of 993.
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| Name | Birthplace | Death |
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| Pope Clement I | Rome | 100 |
| John the Apostle | Bethsaida, Galilee | 100 |
| Nereus, Achilleus and Domitilla | | 100 |
| Prosdocimus | Antioch, Asia Minor | 100 |
The youngest saints canonized by the Roman Catholic Church in modern times are Francisco and Jacinta Marto, two Portuguese child witnesses of the 1917 Marian apparitions at Fatima, who died at ages 10 and 9 respectively in 1919 and 1920, victims of the 1918 influenza pandemic.
List of saints canonized by Pope Francis
| No. | Saint | Place of canonization |
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| 1. | Antonio Primaldo & 812 Companions | Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City |
| 2. | Laura Montoya Upegui | Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City |
| 3. | Maria Guadalupe Garcia Zavala | Saint Peter's Square, Vatican City |
| 4. | Angela of Foligno | Apostolic Palace, Vatican City |
Elizabeth Ann Seton
| SaintElizabeth Ann SetonS.C. |
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| Born | Elizabeth Ann BayleyAugust 28, 1774 New York City, Province of New York, British America |
| Died | January 4, 1821 (aged 46) Emmitsburg, Maryland, United States |
| Venerated in | Catholic Church, Episcopal Church (United States) |
| Beatified | March 17, 1963, by Pope John XXIII |
What Maria Goretti represents is forgiveness. The Italian peasant girl was murdered in 1902, when she was just 11 years old. Her assailant, a 19-year-old neighbor named Alessandro Serenelli, had tried to rape her. When she fought back, he stabbed her 14 times with a rusty file.
According to tradition, St.Sebastian was ordered to be killed by arrows for converting his fellow Roman soldiers to Christianity. He was left for dead by the archers but was rehabilitated by a pious widow. Following his recovery, he presented himself to Diocletian and was subsequently beaten to death.
The Patron Saint of the Internet. NEW YORK - Carlo Acutis looked like an ordinary teenager. However, Catholics around the world and Pope Francis believe that, during his short life, what he did here on Earth was extraordinary.
Saint Victoria, the patron of Anticoli, Italy, was an early christian martyr. She is one of many examples of faithful Catholic women who were killed after spurning a powerful pagan suitor. You can see her skeleton through some parts of the wax facade, such as her teeth and parts of her hand.
Child saints are children who died or were martyred and have been declared saints or martyrs of the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Coptic Orthodox, Anglican, Episcopalian, or Lutheran Churches or have been beatified.
Carlo Acutis, who died at 15 in 2006 and was an early adopter of the internet, was beatified over the weekend, putting him on the path to sainthood in the Catholic Church. In many ways, Carlo Acutis was a typical teenager.
In the West Nicholas is most widely known as the patron saint of children. Many of his stories tell of children rescued from calamity and returned to the care and keeping of their families.
Saint Aloysius Gonzaga | Biography & Facts | Britannica.
For starters, the type of saint we're talking about is a heavenly being, so according to the church, you can't be canonized while you're alive (normally the process doesn't start until at least five years after death). Martyrs only need proof of one miracle, often an unexplained cure of an illness, to become a saint.
Antoinette was born in Acadia, a fledgling French settlement in Canada, but she would one day sing for a queen in Paris and become a source of pride for the nuns of the Benedictine Abbey of Beaumont-lès-Tours, as an unusual convert to the Catholic faith.
