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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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04 June - Clotilde, born around 474 or 475, is a Burgundian princess. She is the daughter of the Burgundian king Chilpéric II and Carétène. Clotilde's childhood and youth took place at the Burgundian court during the reigns of Gondioc, who died in the 470s, then of Chilpéric I, who died around 480, and then under the joint reign of Gondioc's four sons
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03 June - Saint Charles Lwanga, born in 1865 and died on 3 June 1886, is a Ugandan martyr of the Baganda ethnic group. Born in the Buganda kingdom, in the south of present-day Uganda, he was the chief page in the court of King Mwanga II.
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02 June - Saint Blandine, known as of Lyon, is a young Christian slave from Lugdunum (Lyon) who was martyred during the month of July 177 under Emperor Marcus Aurelius. After surviving her incarceration, Blandine is one of six of the forty-seven martyrs of Lyon to be condemned to the arena.
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June 1 - Justin of Nablus or Justin of Neapolis, born in Flavia Neapolis (now Nablus in the West Bank) around the beginning of the 2nd century and died (executed) in Rome around 165, is a Christian apologist and philosopher. Of free birth, he was probably a Roman citizen and his family was polytheistic.
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May 31 - The feast of the Visitation commemorates an episode from the Gospel according to Luke 1, 39-56: Mary's visit, pregnant with Christ, to her cousin Elizabeth, pregnant with John the Baptist.
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30 May - Joan of Arc, born around 1412 in Domrémy, a village in the Duchy of Bar, and died at the stake on 30 May 1431 in Rouen. Daughter of Jacques d'Arc and Isabelle Rommée, Joan belongs to a family of five children.
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29 May - Saint Maximin, born in Silly, Roman Gaul, becomes Bishop of Trier around 341/342 during the reign of the sons of Constantine the Great. He is an opponent of Arianism, and a friend of Athanasius of Alexandria, who takes refuge in his home in Trier during his exile in 336-37 and again in 343. Thanks to him, Athanasius met Caesar Constantine II before the latter became emperor.
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May 28 - Germain de Paris, also called Germain d'Autun, born in Autun in 496. Born of Eleuthère and Eusébie in Autun, he escaped death as a child. The mother of his cousin Stratidius wants to poison him to take his inheritance, but the maid mistakenly gives the poison to Stratidius.
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27 May - Augustine is a Benedictine monk. Prior in an abbey in Rome, he is chosen by Pope Gregory the Great to head the Gregorian mission. In 595, Gregory the Great chooses the monks who are to be part of the mission in Kent and asks Augustine, the prior of St. Andrew's Abbey in Rome, to lead them.
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26 May - Philippe was born in Florence on 21 July 1515 in the neighbourhood of S. Pier Gattolini. He is the third child of Francesco di Filippo da Castelfranco, notary, and Lucrezia de Mosciano, daughter of a carpenter. His cheerful character earned him the nickname of "Saint of Joy".
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25 May - Bède, known as the Venerable (in Latin: Beda Venerabilis), is an Anglo-Saxon monk and scholar born around 672/673 in Northumbria and died on 26 May 735. At the age of seven, Bede was sent to the monastery of Wearmouth by his family to receive the teaching of Benedict Biscop, then Ceolfrith.
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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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