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St. Miguel Febres Cordero (1854–1910), De La Salle brother (Ecuador) Declared venerable: 16 March 1970; Beatified: 30 October 1977 by Pope Paul VI; Canonized: 21 October 1984 by Pope John Paul II; St. Roque González de Santa Cruz, Juan del Castillo, and Alfonso Rodríguez Olmedo (d. 1628), Jesuits (Paraguay and Peru) Declared martyrdom: 3 ...
Eulalia (c. 289 – February 12, 303), co-patron saint of Barcelona, was a 13-year-old Roman Christian virgin who was martyred in Barcelona during the persecution of Christians in the reign of emperor Diocletian (the Sequence of Saint Eulalia mentions his co-emperor the "pagan king" Maximian).
Juana Inés de Asbaje Ramírez de Santillana (Juana Inés of the Cross) (1648–1695), Professed Religious of the Hieronymite Nuns (Estado de México – Mexico City, Mexico) Luis Felipe Neri de Alfaro Velásquez (1709–1776), Priest of the Oratorians (Mexico City – Guanajuato, Mexico)
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.
Previously married to Catalina del Peso y Henao, with whom he had three children, in 1509, Sánchez de Cepeda married Teresa's mother, Beatriz de Ahumada y Cuevas, in Gotarrendura. [7] A brother, Lorenzo de Cepeda y Ahumada, was the father of Teresa de Ahumada. [8] Teresa's mother brought her up as a dedicated Christian.
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.
The "twin" churches of Santa Maria di Montesanto (left) and Santa Maria dei Miracoli (right), seen from Piazza del Popolo.Between the two churches Via del Corso starts. . Although very similar, differences can be seen in this image in the two small belfries and in the two domes (noticeable from the number of windows in the tympanum of each chu
The Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas is a monastery of Cistercian nuns located approximately 1.5 km west of the city of Burgos in Spain. The word huelgas , which usually refers to "labour strikes" in modern Spanish, refers in this case to land which had been left fallow.