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Feast Day: May 5
Canonized: October 14, 2018
Beatified: December 1, 1963
Venerated: July 21, 1891

Feast Day: July 6
Canonized: October 14, 2018
Beatified: September 27, 1992
Venerated: September 1, 1988

Feast Day: September 26
Canonized: October 14, 2018
Beatified: October 19, 2014
Venerated: December 20, 2012

As a child, Giovanni Battista Montini was often ill. He could not do many of the things that other children his age could do, but he loved to study and read. After he finished high school, he studied for the priesthood and was ordained in 1920.

Josephine Vannini was born in 1859 in the city of Rome. Orphaned at an early age, she was sent to Via Sant’Onofrio for her care and education.

From the time she was very young, Thresia felt called to love God with her whole being.

Marguerite was born in 1815 in Fribourg, Switzerland, to a devout Catholic family. She was a bright student who enjoyed praying to God.

Sister Dulce, known as the Mother Teresa of Brazil, was born in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, in 1914. Dulce was moved to help people.

Feast Day: February 11

Feast Day: February 27
Canonized: October 25, 1970
Beatified: December 15, 1929

Feast Day: May 8
Beatified: October 4, 2014

Miriam Teresa Demjanovich was born March 26, 1901, in Bayonne, New Jersey, the youngest of seven children. She was baptized and grew up in the Byzantine Ruthian Rite of her immigrant parents. As a young woman, Miriam felt a calling to religious life, but went to college at the urging of her parents and graduated with a literature degree with highest honors. She accepted a teaching position at the Academy of Saint Aloysius in Jersey City, where her frequent prayer and devotion to the Rosary were seen by many.