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Happy Feast Day Saint Padre Pio

1887 - 1968 Feast Day: September 23 Patronage: Civil defense volunteers, Catholic adolescents St. Pio of Pietrelcina, was a Capuchin Catholic priest from Italy. He was born Francesco Forgione, and given the name Pius when he joined the Capuchins, thus he is popularly known as Padre Pio. He became famous for bearing the stigmata. He also had the gift of reading souls and the ability to bilocate, among other supernatural phenomena. On 16 June 2002, he was canonized by Pope John Paul II.

Happy Feast Day Saint Lawrence of Brindisi Doctor of the Church

1559-1619 Feast Day: July 21 Patronage: Brindisi, Italy Saint Lawrence of Brindisi was raised and educated in Italy by the Franciscans. At 16, he entered the Capuchin order, continuing his extensive studies in theology, philosophy, and languages. Talented as a linguist in over six languages, and an orator with a great memory, he was sent all over Europe serving as a peacemaker, chaplain, teacher, evangelist, and writer. He founded convents and monasteries to help serve the Church in troubled times. In 1959, St. Lawrence was declared a Doctor of the Church. 

Happy Feast Day Saint Veronica Giuliani

1660-1727 Feast day: July 9 Saint Veronica, an Italian Capuchin Poor Clare, whose baptismal name was Ursula, is one of the greatest mystics in the Church. Her life was one of the cross and pain, uniting her sufferings with Christ’s passion, death, and resurrection, eventually receiving the stigmata. In her Diary of 22,000 pages, we learn of her ecstatic visions of Jesus, saints, souls in purgatory and of the devil. St. Veronica was devoted to the Eucharist and Sacred Heart, trusting God totally, abandoning herself completely to His will. Her heart is incorrupt to this day.