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July 24 - Charbel, born Youssef Antoun Makhlouf in Bekaa Kafra (North Lebanon) on May 8, 1828. Son of Antoun Zaarour Makhlouf and Birgita Chidiac, humble Maronite peasants (Eastern Catholic Christians), the young Youssef, receives a very pious education, which gives him from childhood a strong taste for prayer.
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July 23 - Brigitte of Sweden, daughter of Birger Persson, Swedish prince and descendant of the Brahe family, was born in 1303 in Sweden on the Finsta farm in the historic province of Uppland. Mother of eight children including Catherine of Sweden.
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22 July - Originally from the city of Magdala, on the western shore of Lake Tiberias, Mary Magdalene or Mary of Magdala, sister of Martha and Lazarus, is the most present woman in the New Testament.
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July 21 - Victor de Marseille was a Roman soldier, officer in the Theban legion entirely composed of Christians, massacred during the reign of emperors Diocletian and Maximian Hercules in Agaune. Victor, an officer in the emperor's guard, is said to have arrived in Marseille on the occasion of a visit to the city of Emperor Maximian Hercules.
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July 20 - St. Peter transferred his apostolic chair from Antioch to that of Rome in order to establish the faith of Jesus Christ. He brought with him several faithful, among whom was Apollinaire. Peter consecrated him bishop and sent him to the city of Ravenna to preach the Gospel.
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19 July - He belonged to a senatorial family in Rome. He was ordained deacon by St. Damascus I. Arsene was chosen by Theodosius I to be tutor to his son Arcadius. Unable to overcome the obstinacy of his pupil, and disgusted with the court, he withdrew to the desert of Scété in Egypt.
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18 July - Frederic of Utrecht was born around 780. He was sent to Utrecht by his mother, the grandson of the King of the Friesians, and was elected bishop there in 820/826, despite his reluctance, at the behest of the Western Emperor Louis the Pious, with whom he quarrelled a few years later.
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17 July - Simon Stock was born in Kent in 1164. According to tradition he was an itinerant preacher until he joined the Carmelite Order. He would have joined the Carmelite Order only after making his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and joined the hermits on the slopes of Mount Carmel.
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17 July - Saint Marcelline was born at Trier, in the Prefecture of the Praetorium of the Gauls, around 330 and died around 398. Her brother was Saint Ambrose of Milan. Her father was Prefect of the Pretorium of Transalpine Gaul.
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July 16 - Marie-Madeleine Postel, born Julie Françoise-Catherine in Barfleur on November 28, 1756, was a founding nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy in 1807. Daughter of a tailpiece maker from Barfleur, she was sent to the Benedictine nuns of Valognes, then returned in 1776 to her hometown to open a school for poor children.
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July 16 - Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel (or Our Lady of Mount Carmel) is one of the various names of the Virgin Mary. Its name comes from Mount Carmel, in the Holy Land. Carmelite religious orders exist today throughout the world, both male and female, dedicated to this Marian figure.
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15 July - He was born to Giovanni da Fidanza and Maria Ritella. Baptised Giovanni at birth, he later takes the name "Bonaventure". According to a 15th century tradition, the young Giovanni, who was seriously ill, was brought to Francis of Assisi, who cried out when he saw him: "O buona ventura!". ("What luck!").
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