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Born: March 27, 1923 Died: September 29, 1996 One of the most vivid descriptions author Shūsaku Endō uses to describe his faith was to call his Catholicism an ill-fitting suit. But Endō’s discomfort is more profound than something that looks great on the hanger that never fits exactly right. Throughout his l , ...

Born: March 28, 1907 Died: February 13, 2005 Feast: N/A Patron saint of: N/A Lucia was the oldest of the three children who the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to in Fatima in 1917. The other two children, her cousins, passed away soon after the apparitions, but Sister Lucia endured, living to the age of 97. , ...

Born: April 1, 1854 Died: July 9, 1897 Feast: N/A Patron saint of: N/A Tolton is known as the first American priest of African descent who identified as Black (three brothers—James, Patrick, and Alexander Healy—were ordained earlier, but they identified and “passed” as white). In 2010 the Archdiocese of Ch , ...

Born: February 14, 1879 Died: April 4, 1963 Feast day: April 4 Patron saint of: chaplains The previous fall, on Oct. 23, 2005, a cousin of mine, Padre Gaetano Catanoso, had been named a saint by Pope Benedict XVI in his first canonization ceremony. I was there with my family, along with tens of thousands o , ...