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  2. Category:Female saints - Wikipedia

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    It includes Saints that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Female saints . The saints in these categories are recognized as saints by various Christian churches or other religious bodies.

  3. Women in the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    Influential Catholic women have included theologians, abbesses, monarchs, missionaries, mystics, martyrs, scientists, nurses, hospital administrators, educationalists, religious sisters, Doctors of the Church, and canonised saints. Women constitute the majority of members of consecrated life in the Catholic Church; in 2010, there were around ...

  4. List of Catholic saints - Wikipedia

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    This is an incomplete list of humans and angels whom the Catholic Church has canonized as saints.According to Catholic theology, all saints enjoy the beatific vision.Many of the saints listed here are to be found in the General Roman Calendar, while others may also be found in the Roman Martyrology; [1] still others are particular to local places and their recognition does not extend to the ...

  5. Christina the Astonishing - Wikipedia

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    The Catholic Church allows and recognizes veneration of saints upheld by the laity; canonization is understood as a re-affirming of the more notable examples of Christian life as mentioned in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, and Saint Christina the Astonishing, having early church recognition, is due her title of Saint as stated by the ...

  6. Saint Lucy - Wikipedia

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    Lucia of Syracuse (c. 283 – 304 AD), also called Saint Lucia (Latin: Sancta Lucia) and better known as Saint Lucy, was a Roman Christian martyr who died during the Diocletianic Persecution. She is venerated as a saint in Catholic , Anglican , Lutheran , and Eastern Orthodox Christianity.

  7. Category : Christian female saints of the Middle Ages

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    Female saints from medieval Bohemia (2 P) Byzantine female saints (1 C, 20 P) D. Female saints of medieval Denmark (1 P) E. Female saints of medieval England (1 C, 39 ...

  8. Gemma Galgani - Wikipedia

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    Gemma Umberta Maria Galgani (12 March 1878 – 11 April 1903), also known as Gemma of Lucca, was an Italian mystic, venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church since 1940. She has been called the "daughter of the Passion" because of her profound imitation of the Passion of Christ. [2]

  9. Margaret Clitherow - Wikipedia

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    The shrine to Saint Margaret on The Shambles, York, 2018 Commemorative plaque on the Ouse Bridge, York. Margaret Clitherow is the patroness of the Catholic Women's League. [19] Several schools in England are named after her, including those in Bracknell, Brixham, Manchester, Middlesbrough, Thamesmead SE28, Brent, London NW10 and Tonbridge.