Saints, Blessed

St. John of the Cross, Priest and Doctor of the Church (Feast)

John of the Cross Saint John was born, probably in 1540, in Fontiveros, near Avila in Spain. His father died when he was very young and he had to move with his mother from one place to another, while he tried as best he could to continue his education and, at the same time, to earn a living. In Medina in 1563 he was clothed in the Carmelite habit and, after a year's novitiate, was given permission to follow the unmitigated Carmelite Rule.

Bl. Bartholomew Fanti, Priest (m)

Bartholomew Fanti A native of Mantua, Italy, he was a Carmelite in the Mantuan Congregation and already ordained priest by 1452. For 35 years in the Carmelite church of his city, he was the spiritual director and rector of the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, for whom he wrote a rule and a set of statutes.

Bl. Denis of the Nativity (OCD), Priest and Martyr Bl. Redemptus of the Cross (OCD), Religious and Martyr (m)

Denis RedemptusDenis was born at Hornfleur in France on 12th December 1600. He served as a cartographer and naval captain for the kings of France and Portugal, but in 1635 he became a Discalced Carmelite in Goa, India.

St. Raphael of St. Joseph (OCD), Priest (m)

Raphael of JosephRaphael of St. Joseph (in lay life: Joseph Kalinowski) was born at Vilna to a Polish family on 1st September 1835 and died at Wadowice on 15th November 1907. Graduating in engineering at the Academy of Military Sciences at St.

All Carmelite Saints (Feast)

All Carmelite SaintsThe Church is unfailingly holy: Christ has loved it like his spouse and has given himself for her, in order to sanctify her; this is why all in the Church are called to holiness. The Church preaches the Paschal Mystery in the Saints who have suffered with Christ and who are glorified with him, and proposes to the faithful their example to attract all to the Father through Christ and implores through their merits the benefits of God.
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