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Our Lady of Mount Carmel

Feast day: July 16

Patron saint of Chile

Our Lady of Mount Carmel is the title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary in her role as patroness of the Carmelite Order. The first Carmelites were Christian hermits living on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land during the late 12th and early to mid 13th centuries. They built a chapel in the midst of their hermitages which they dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and celebrated a special Mass and Office in her honor. In 1726 it became a celebration of the universal Church under the title of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

"Our Lady in whose face - more than in any other creature - we can recognise the features of the Incarnate Word." - #PopeBenedictXVI

Saint Veronica

Died: 1st C.

Feast Day: July 12

Patronage: Laundry workers, Photographers

Saint Veronica offered her veil to Jesus to wipe his face on his way to Calvary and Christ left his image miraculously imprinted on it. This beautiful act of charity is commemorated at the sixth station of the way of the cross. Veronica’s veil is one of the Vatican’s most treasured relics. St. Peter’s Basilica displays the veil each year on the 5th Sunday of Lent, Passion Sunday.

Saint Benedict and his twin sister Saint Scholastica.

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Saint Benedict

480 - 543

Feast Day: July 11 (New), March 21 (Trad)

Patronage: Europe, farmers, against poison, against witchcraft

It is related by Saint Gregory the Great (+603) that in the wilderness Benedict fed a raven with some of a portion of his bread. When a jealous and wicked priest tried to kill Benedict with poisoned bread, Benedict coached the raven to take the deadly bread to a place where it couldn't harm another. The raven complied.