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Saint Bridget, or Brigid, who, with Saint Patrick, is the most honored and revered of the Irish saints, was born toward the middle of the fifth century, in the province of Leinster, in what is now the county of Louth. Her father was a »owerful lord of Leinster. While she was still an infant, he saw in ...

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The city of Colchester lies in what is probably the most Protestant district of all England. And yet the most prominent object in that Protestant city is an immense statue of a saint holding a cross. That statue is of Saint Helena, and as the city is on a hill, and the tower on which...

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The name of Saint Cecilia has always been highly honored in the Church and has been made familiar to us by pictures, which always represent her as a beautiful maiden, seated before an organ, on which she is playing; or sometimes with a wreath on her brow and a lyre in her hand. Thi...

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Even in these days of rapid transit a journey from South America to Europe occupies a good deal of time. In the days in which Saint Rose of Lima exalted the fame of her country, especially the city of her birth, which is the capital of Peru, months were occupied in such a voya...

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It has been said of Saint Teresa that she possessed the soul of an angel, the mind of a man, and the heart of a loving and trustful child in the body of a woman. It is doubtful if she could be better described.

She was born at Avila, in Spain, on the 28th of March, 1...