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Saturday. October 24, 2026
Saturday. October 24, 2026. Saint Anthony, born 1807, Catalonia, Spain, son of a weaver. He took up weaving but then studied for the priesthood, ordained in 1835, desiring to be a Jesuit. His health prevented his entering the Order, and he served as a secular priest and spend 10 years giving missions. In 1849 he…
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Friday. October 23, 2026
Friday. October 23, 2026. Saint John Capistrano was born in Capistrano, Italy, in 1385; he was the son of a former German knight. He studied law, and after practicing as a lawyer in Naples, he was appointed the governor of Perugia. During a war with a neighboring city, he was imprisoned. He began to study…
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Thursday. October 22, 2026
Thursday. October 22, 2026. Saint John Paul II. Karol J. Wojtyla was born in Wadowice, Poland, on May 18, 1920. He was the second of two sons. His eldest brother, Edmund, a doctor, and his father, a non-commissioned army officer, all died before his 21st birthday. Karol’s promising academic career at Krakow’s Jagiellonian University was…
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Wednesday. October 21, 2026
Wednesday. October 21, 2026. Saint Pedro Calungsod was born in the Philippines; there is not much known about him. History tells us he was one of the young volunteers who joined the Spanish Jesuit missionaries who left the Philippines for the Ladrones Islands in the western Pacific in 1668; he was only 13. He served…
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Tuesday. October 20, 2026
Tuesday. October 20, 2026. Saint Paul of the Cross. Paolo Francesco Daneii, born in the Republic of Genoa in 1694. His father ran a small dry-goods store. Paul was the second of 16 children, but only 6 survived. He received his early education from a priest in Lombardy. He made great progress, and at 15…
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Monday. October 19, 2026
Monday. October 19, 2026. St. Peter of Alcantera was born in Alcántara, Spain, in 1499. His father was governor, and his mother was of the noble family of Sanabia. After a course of grammar and philosophy, at 14 he was sent to the University of Salamanca. Returning home, he became a Franciscan in the convent…
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Sunday. October 18, 2026
Sunday. October 18, 2026. Saint Luke was one of the Evangelists; like Saint Mark, he was not one of the apostles who walked with Jesus. He was a disciple of Saint Paul, identified as “the beloved physician.” He was born a Greek and a Gentile, born at Antioch in Syria. He wrote the Gospel of…
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Saturday. October 17, 2026
Saturday. October 17, 2026. Tradition tells us that Ignatius was born around the year 50. He was a disciple of Saint John the Evangelist, who was the Bishop of Antioch, in Syria. Ignatius succeeded him as bishop. He was like a shepherd, gently leading his people to understand the teachings of the Apostles and to…
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Friday. October 16, 2026
Business Enterprises are not Legacy: The wake it leaves is Legacy Let the Foundation’s Good Work speak, not the family name. Friday. October 16, 2026. Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque was born in Burgundy. Her father was a prosperous notary; the family owned a country house and farmland. Her father died of pneumonia when she…
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Thursday. October 15, 2026
Thursday. October 15, 2026. Saint Teresa of Avila. Teresa Sanchez Cepeda Davila y Ahumada was born in Avila in 1515, the third child in a family descended from Jewish merchants who converted to Christianity and became ardent Catholics. She was brought up by her saintly father, a lover of serious books, and a tender and…