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Born: January 23, 1838 Died: August 9, 1918 Feast: January 23 Patron of: lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS Mother Marianne shunned publicity and thus is not as well known as Father Damien, whose own leprosy brought him prominence whether he wanted it or not. The former provincial of the Sisters of the , ...

Born: August 21, 1567 Died: December 28, 1622 Feast Day: January 24 Patron of: Adult education, deaf people, and journalists One Catholic image of a saint is a tough, scraggly-bearded figure, scratching away in his hairshirt, railing against the comforts of the world.  Saint Francis de Sales was an , ...

Born: January 24, 1932 Died: September 21, 1996 Nouwen was ordained in 1957 and he published his first book Intimacy: Pastoral Psychology Essays (Fides) in 1969. The slender volume explores the principal theme of Nouwen’s eventual legacy as a spiritual writer and teacher. This question of intimacy underlies , ...

Born: c. 1 CE Died: c. 96 or 107 CE Feast day: January 26 Patron saint of: Crete, the United States Army Chaplain Corps Titus was one of Paul’s colleagues who we read about several times in the Pauline epistles of the New Testament. While the epistles imply he sometimes journeyed with Paul, he was also oft , ...

Born: c. 347 CE Died: c. 404 CE Feast day: January 26 Patron saint of: widows, Order of Saint Jerome, monks and nuns Like the fabled yuppies of the ’80s, the upper-crust citizens of Rome had little trouble spending their money and lots of trouble finding wise things to spend it on. Young women, for exa , ...

Born: March 21, 1474 Died:  January 27, 1540 Feast day: January 27 Patron saint of: sickness, disability, those grieving the loss of parents In early young adulthood, Angela Merici joined the Third Order of Saint Francis as a consecrated virgin. When a family crisis called her back to her hometown, An , ...

Born: c. 1225 CE Died:  March 7, 1274 CE Feast day: January 28 Patron saint of: academics, against storms, theologians, philosophers, scholars, students St. Thomas Aquinas is one of the most famous saints of the church. A prolific author, an erudite theologian, and a Doctor of the Church, St. Thomas Aquina , ...

Born: August 16, 1815 Died: January 31, 1888 Feast: January 31 Patron of: editors, publishers, schoolchildren, young people, magicians, juvenile delinquents John Bosco grew up poor, but whenever he had an extra penny, he would go to the circuses and fairs that came to his town. He watched in rapt attention , ...

Born: January 31, 1915 Died: December 10, 1968 Thomas Merton was born in France on January 31, 1915. After a dissolute youth in Britain and New York, Merton professed as a Cistercian monk in the Abbey of Gethsemani of Kentucky in 1941. Seven years later, he published The Seven Storey Mountain, an autobiographica , ...