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01 July - Saint Thierry or Thierry du Mont d'Hor was the son of Lord Marcard, a famous highwayman. He would have been born in the 5th century or at the very beginning of the 6th century and would have died around 533. On his wedding day, he discovered that he had a monastic vocation.
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15 June - Daughter of Laurent Cousin, a modest ploughman, and his wife Marie Laroche, Germaine was born in Pibrac, a small village 15 km west of Toulouse, in 1579. Afflicted with scrofula, she also had an atrophied hand. Her mother died when she was still very young.
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June 14 - Elisha is an Old Testament prophet whose activity is described in the Second Book of Kings. He was the son of Shaphat, a rich farmer from Abel-Mehola in the Jordan Valley. When Elijah meets him, Elisha plows his field with 12 other people, each leading a pair of oxen (1 Kings 19, 19).
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13 June - Antoine de Padua, whose real name was Fernando Martins de Bulhões, was born around 1195 in Lisbon into a noble and military family. In 1220, the remains of the Franciscan martyrs of Morocco were brought back to Portugal.
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June 12 - On this day we celebrate two saints answering to the same Guy. The first one is Guy Vignotelli or Pagnotelli known as Guy of Cortona, born in 1185. Originally from Spain, he lived near Cortona. He was noble, but of very modest condition, and renowned for his charity.
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11 June - Barnabas, or Barnabas, is a Levite Jew with ties to the island of Cyprus (Acts 4,36), who holds an important place in the Acts of the Apostles as the one who introduced St. Paul to the apostles in Jerusalem (Acts 9, 27) and later to the Christians of Antioch, and was his first companion on his journey, of which he is head of mission.
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June 10 - Landry was an officer in the Royal Chancery under Clovis II. Around 650, he was Bishop of Paris, replacing Audobertus. He is the fifth Saint Pastor of the capital, after Saints Denis, Marcel, Germain and Céran.
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June 09 - Ephrem the Syrian, Ephrem of Nisibe or Ephrem the Syriac, born around 306 in Nisibe and died in 373 in Edessa, was a Syrian deacon and theologian of the fourth century in the region of Assyria. Based on Ephrem's hymnology, internal criticism suggests that both his parents were part of the city's growing Christian community.
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08 June - Born of solid and austere Auvergne peasants on the Montlogis (Polminhac) estate, Jacques Berthieu completed his secondary school studies at the Pleaux minor seminary before moving on to the Saint-Flour (Cantal) major seminary to prepare for the priesthood.
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07 June - Born in Auvergne at the end of the 11th century, Gilbert, known as de Neuffonts or de Neuffontaines, is a Norbertine religious, an order founded by Saint Norbert. He took part in the Second Crusade with King Louis VII of France in 1146.
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06 June - Norbert is born in his father's castle in Gennep near Xanten in North Rhine-Westphalia. Around the age of nine, he was placed as a novice and then as an Oblate in the collegiate church of Xanten. He was then entrusted to the care of the ecolastic canon of the Xanten chapter to instruct him and prepare him for the priesthood through harsh discipline.
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05 June - Boniface was born in Crediton, Wessex, and was christened Winfrid (or Wynfrith) at his baptism. He was from a good family and was admitted as an Oblate to the monastery of Exeter. A brilliant student, he was sent to the monastery of Nursling, renowned for the quality of its teaching. He became a priest at the age of thirty.
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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, You who have come in such large numbers to take part in this national pilgrimage, as well as all of you who are following it from home through the media. We, the bishops of Madagascar, would like to express our deep gratitude to you for having responded to our invitation and for having brought this jubilee initiated by Pope Francis to life spiritually. With you, we take up Mary's song: ‘My soul exalts the Lord’ and we repeat with her: ‘What shall I repay the Lord for all the good he has done me?’....
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