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: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 11 November 2022

11 November - Martin was born in the year 316 in Pannonia, in the city of Sabaria, now the city of Szombathely, Hungary. His father was a military tribune of the Roman Empire, i.e. a senior officer in charge of the administration of the army. It is probably no coincidence that Martin's name means "dedicated to Mars", Mars being the god of war in Rome.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 10 November 2022

10th November - Leon was born towards the end of the 4th century, some say he was born in Tuscany, some say in Rome. Other documents say it was in Etruria. His father's name was Quintianus and the story of his childhood is not well known but his first known history dates back to 418. He was then an acolyte to Pope Zosimus.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 09 November 2022

November 09 - Theodore was a Roman soldier and is one of the most famous martyrs of the Eastern Church. He was born in Syria towards the end of the third century. Be careful not to confuse him with the Holy Theodore revered on February 7th, as they are both soldiers and both martyrs.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 08 November 2022

08 November - Geoffroy or Godefroy d'Amiens was born around 1066 at Moulincourt, in the diocese of Soissons. The third child of Frodo, Lord of Moulincourt and Elisabeth, he was taken in charge at a very young age by his uncle, Bishop of Soissons, who had him educated at the Abbey of Mont Saint-Quentin, near Péronne.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 07 November 2022

07 November - Ernest is born in Steisslingen, Germany. As a young man he entered the Benedictine monastery at Zwiefalten on Lake Constance. He was director of this monastery from 1141 to 1146.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 06 November 2022

06 November - According to tradition and the legendary account of his life, written in the 11th century, Leonardo was born into a Frankish family of officers of the court of Clovis at the end of the 5th century. Baptized by Saint Remi, Bishop of Rheims, he had Clovis himself as his godfather, and became a disciple of Saint Remi.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 05 November 2022

05 November - Zechariah and Elizabeth are the parents of John the Baptist, and we know their stories from the Bible. According to the Bible, they are considered to be descended from a family of priests. They are the parents of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 04 November 2022

04 November - Charles Borromeo, born in Arona on 2 October 1538. At the age of 12, he received the tonsure and benefit of the Benedictine Abbey of Arona, left vacant by his uncle Giovanni Angelo de Medici, who was Pope Pius IV.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 03 November 2022

November 03 - Martin was born on December 9, 1579 in Lima, Peru. Illegitimate child of Jean de Porrès, knight of the Order of Alcantara, and Anne Vélasquez, freed black slave. A sister named Joanna was born two years later.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 02 November 2022

02 November - The Commemoration of the Dead was instituted to obtain from God the deliverance or relief of souls from purgatory. The Office of the Dead originated in the wake of the dead that the first Christians held following the example of the Jews.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 01 November 2022

November 1 - Feasts honoring all martyrs existed as early as the fourth century in the Eastern Churches on the Sunday after Pentecost. In Rome, also in the fifth century, a feast in honor of saints and martyrs was already celebrated on the Sunday after Pentecost.

: Presented by Ratovoarivelo Ndrasantsoa Marie Frédeline; Category: Saint of the day; Also available:; Published: 31 October 2022

31st October - Quentin would have been originally from Rome, sent to Northern Gaul, just like his contemporaries Saints Crepin and Crepinians, in the second half of the 3rd century, to evangelise him.

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