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Santa Marina de Aguas Santas, Seville. The traditional account of the life of Santa Marina points to the town of Xinzo de Limia as the place of her birth. At that time, the region of La Limia was a highly Romanized town (Forum Limicorum), through which the Vía Nova, which linked the towns of Bracara (Braga, Portugal) and Asturica (Astorga), passed.
José de Los Santos Ruiz (1932), priest of the archdiocese of Nueva Pamplona (Colombia) Modest Arnaus Saurina (1896-1947), professed priest, Claretians (Colombia) Simon de Zorroza (1948), professed priest, Passionists (Colombia) Luis Mariano Torres (1924-1950), professed priest, Company of Mary (Montfort Missionaries) (Colombia)
The Martyrology of Tallaght is an Irish martyrology from the late eighth century. It lists of hundreds of saints from Ireland and beyond. [1]In various religions, a saint is a revered person who has achieved an eminent status of holiness, known as sainthood.
Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
Lúcia was the youngest child of António dos Santos and Maria Rosa Ferreira (1869–1942), [2] both from Aljustrel, who married on 19 November 1890. [1] Although peasants, the Santos family was not poor, owning land "in the direction of Montelo, Ortiga, Fátima, Valinhos, Cabeço, Charneca, and Cova da Iria." [3]: 9
Agost, in Valencia province, is the location of a hermitage dedicated to these saints (Ermita de Santa Justa y Rufina), built in 1821. Toledo also has a church dedicated to them. There is a shrine to the saints in Alicante where a three-day fiesta is held in their honor in July.
Brigid is said to have preserved a nun's chastity in unusual circumstances. Liam de Paor (1993) [42] and Connolly & Picard (1987), in their complete translations of Cogitosus, give substantially the same translation [42]: 211 of the account of Brigid's ministry to a nun who had failed to keep her vow of chastity and had become pregnant. In the ...
In January 2003, Aguas Santas visited El Hogar de Niños Emanuel in San Pedro Sula, along with several executives of Spanish corporations operating factories in that city. They were hoping to raise awareness for the orphans remaining in many orphanages as a result of Hurricane Mitch , which had devastated Honduras in 1998.