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Tisquantum (Squanto)

Tisquantum (Squanto)
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Born: 1585 Died: November 30, 1622 Squanto remains trapped by the image we have invented for him. In the romanticized Thanksgiving narrative that began developing a century and a half after the actual feast, Squanto has been reduced to a two-dimensional supporting character that appears only to the degree he sel , ...
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St. Charles de Foucauld

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Born: September 15, 1858 Died: December 1, 1916 Feast day: December 1 Charles was born in France in 1858. After a dissolute young adulthood he had a conversion experience and became a priest and missionary, making his home, finally, in Algeria around the turn of the 20th century. Like Francis of Assisi , ...

Nicholas Black Elk

Nicholas Black Elk
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Born: December 1, 1863 Died: August 19, 1950 Black Elk was thoroughly and completely Catholic. After his baptism in 1904, he taught himself to read the Bible in Lakota. Because of his zeal, the Jesuits appointed him to the position of catechist, which in Black Elk’s community functioned much like a permanent dea , ...
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St. Francis Xavier

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Born: April 7, 1506 Died: December 3, 1552 Feast day: December 3 Patron saint of: missionaries, epidemics Saint Francis Xavier veered from his original plan when on Aug. 15, 1534, he, Peter Faber, Ignatius Loyola, and four other men decided to dedicate themselves to God at a church in Montmartre, near Pari , ...
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Robert Schreiter

Robert Schreiter
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Born: December 14, 1947 Died: June 1, 2021 Robert J. Schreiter (or “Bob,” as he convinced me to call him after many years and some exasperation on his part) was first part of a farming family in Nebraska; then a priest of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood; later a protégé of the late, great Edward Schillebe , ...
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Bl. Sára Salkaházi

Bl. Sára Salkaházi
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Born: May 11, 1899 Died: December 27, 1944 Feast day: December 27 Salkaházi started her work life as an elementary school teacher but left for political reasons. After a stint as a bookbinder, she became a journalist for the official paper of the National Christian Socialist Party of Czechoslovakia. Salka , ...
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Sister Thea Bowman

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Born: December 29, 1937 Died: March 30, 1990 Thea Bowman became a scholar of distinction, a wise mentor, an authority on William Faulkner, an acclaimed singer, a spellbinding international speaker, a mystic, a prophet. Her myriad gifts propelled her before eager students and pressing audiences. Her friends were , ...
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St. Mary, Mother of God

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Born: n/a Died: n/a Feast: January 1 Patron saint of: all humanity Miriam was a young Jewish woman, most likely between the ages of 12 and 14, when she is first introduced in the gospels. Considering the short life expectancy and the fact that the ancient world was thoroughly patriarchal, it is not surpris , ...
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J. R. R. Tolkien

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Born: January 3, 1892 Died: September 2, 1973 There are still many people who do not realize Tolkien was Catholic. They know him only as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. But this is because Tolkien seeks to work on us in more subtle ways. Tolkien in a letter dated December 2, , ...