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08 September - It is believed that it was the Church of Jerusalem that first honoured and commemorated the nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated in the basilica in the place where the Virgin Mary is supposed to be born. The sermon of Andrew of Crete describes the birth of the Virgin Mary.
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07 September - In 253, a sixteen-year-old Gaulish girl named Reine, who had converted to Christianity, was grazing her sheep at the foot of Mount Auxois, the presumed site of the Gallic oppidum of Alesia and then the Roman town. A Roman governor of the Gauls, Olibrius or Olimbrius, wanted to abuse her but she resisted and even refused to marry so as not to abjure her faith.
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06 September - Originally from Garrigues near Nîmes in the Gard, Bertrand was seduced by holiness and by St. Dominic's plan to convert the Cathars through prayer and the example of a life of poverty and austerity.
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05 September - Daughter of a priest from Tamieh (Fayoum) on the border of the Libyan desert, she was about twenty years old when Diocletian's persecution broke out.
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04 September - Rosalie was born in 1130 into a noble Sicilian family. She was the daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Quisquina and Rosa, relative of Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily, and descendant of the family of Charlemagne.
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03 September - Gregoire or Gregory I, known as the Great, is the 64th Pope of the Catholic Church. Gregory was born in Rome around 540. His father, Senator Gordian, is administrator of one of the seven districts of Rome. Two of his sisters are honored saints (Tharsilla and Æmiliane), and he had Pope Felix III among his ancestors. His mother, Sylvie, is also honored as a saint.
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02 September - She was the granddaughter of King Knut of Sweden and the great-aunt of St. Brigitte of Sweden. Now a widow, she is making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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September 1 - Saint Gilles the Hermit is a legendary gyrovaga monk from Merovingian or Visigothic Occitania. Born in Athens, this holy monk is said to have come to live as a hermit at the mouth of the Rhône in Languedoc in the 7th century. He died around the year 720.
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August 31 - Raymond Nonnat, born in 1204 in Portell, Catalonia, was nicknamed nonnat (from the Latin non natus, meaning unborn), because he was born just after his mother's death in childbirth.
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August 31 - Aristide of Athens is a Christian apologist of the first century. An Athenian philosopher, he converted to Christianity and was one of the first to respond with his pen to the attacks on the Christian religion at the beginning of the 2nd century.
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August 30 - Saint Fiacre is the offspring of a noble family from Ireland then called "Hibernia" or "Land of Scots". He was first educated by Saint Cuanna in the monastery of Kilcoony, on the edge of Loch Orbsen. Fiacre revealed such a talent for herbal care that he became famous there.
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August 28 - Augustin of Hippo, born November 13, 354 in Thagaste, the present Souk Ahras, Algeria, and died August 28, 430 in Hippo, is a Roman Christian philosopher and theologian of the upper class. Along with Ambrose of Milan, Jerome of Stridon and Gregory the Great, he is one of the four Fathers of the Western Church and one of the thirty-six Doctors of the Church.
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