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18 August - Hélène is said to have been born in Drépanum in the province of Bithynie in Asia Minor. Constance Chlore, a Roman general, married her in 272. Their marriage gave birth to Constantine in 275.
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17 August - Born in 1200 and originally from Silesia, Hyacinth studied in Paris and Bologna. Doctor of theology and priest, he reformed many convents in Poland, Russia and Lithuania.
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16 August - Etienne I, in Hungarian: Szent István király, born around 975, founds the kingdom of Hungary. Etienne's father, Géza, promotes by force the conversion to Christianity of his subjects.
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August 15 - The Assumption of Mary is the Catholic religious belief that the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, did not die like everyone else but entered directly into the glory of God. Before being a dogma, the Assumption of Mary was a belief based on patristic tradition. In fact, no text in the New Testament evokes the end of Mary.
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14 August - Maximilien Kolbe, Rajmund Kolbe at the registry office, is born on 8 January 1894 at Zduńska Wola, Poland. His parents, Julius Kolbe and Maria Dąbrowska are both Franciscan weavers and tertiaries. The father took part in the Polish legion of the independentist Józef Piłsudski in 1914.
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13 August - Pontien is the 18th Bishop of Rome. Of Roman origin and the son of a man named Calpurnius, he occupied the episcopal see of St. Peter for five years, two months and 22 days.
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12 August - Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot, Baroness of Chantal, born 23 January 1572 in Dijon, is a lady from Burgundy. Orphaned by her mother at the age of 18 months, her father Bénigne Frémyot, mortar president at the Parliament of Burgundy, gave her a solid education.
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11 August - St. Clare, born Chiara Offreduccio di Favarone in Assisi on 16 July 1194. According to the acts of her canonization process, Clare Offreduccio di Favarone is the daughter of Favarone, probably of the noble line of the Counts of Coccorano.
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10 August - St. Lawrence of Rome is said to have been born around 210 or 220 in Huesca, Spain. His father's name is Orence, and his mother's name is Patience. In order to complete his humanistic and liturgical studies, he was sent to Zaragoza, where he met the future Pope Sixtus II.
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09 August - St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born in Breslau, Germany, on 12 October 1891. Her real name is Edith Stein and her parents are Jewish.
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07 August - Gaëtan was born in Vicenza, then part of the Republic of Venice. His parents were Gaspard, Count of Thiene, and Maria Porto. His mother, very pious, encouraged him in the path of holiness.
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06 August - The Transfiguration is an episode in the life of Jesus Christ recounted in the New Testament. It is a change in Jesus' bodily appearance for a few moments of his earthly life, to reveal his divine nature to three disciples.
Diocese of Miarinarivo
Pope Francis has accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the Diocese of Miarinarivo, presented by H.E. Mgr Jean Claude Randrianarisoa. At the same time, the Supreme Pontiff has appointed H.E. Mgr Marie Fabien Raharilamboniaina, as Apostolic Admnistrator sede vacante et ad nutum Sanctae Sedis of the same Diocese.
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