218 lives of faith. Showing 85–96.
Priest · 20 May
Arcangelo Tadini was an Italian Roman Catholic priest. Tadini was ordained as a priest in 1870 and went on to found a religious congregation dedicated to the poor and ill while taking advantage of the Industrial Revolution to support women in work and education.
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Religious · 17 August
Beatrice of Silva, born Beatriz de Menezes da Silva, was a Portuguese noblewoman who became the foundress of the monastic Order of the Immaculate Conception.
Portugal · Reported birthplace
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Religious
Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the founder of the Benedictine Sisters of Providence.
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Monastic · May 28
Saint Bernard of Menthon or Bernard of Aosta or Saint Bernard of Montjoux was a Catholic priest and founder of the Great St Bernard Hospice, as well as its associated Canons Regular of the Hospitaller Congregation of Great Saint Bernard.
Origin uncertain · Disputed birthplace
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María del Carmen Sallés y Barangueras, religious name Carmen of Jesus, was a Spanish religious sister. She founded the Missionary Sisters of the Immaculate Conception.
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Religious · 28 December
Caterina Volpicelli, ASCV was an Italian religious sister and the foundress of the Volpicelli Handmaids of the Sacred Heart, dedicated to education, who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church.
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Religious
Emily de Vialar or Émilie de Vialar was a French nun who founded the missionary congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Apparition.
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Monastic · November 4
Felix of Valois, OSsT (French: Félix de Valois; was a French Catholic former Cistercian hermit and a co-founder of the Trinitarian Order.
France · Traditional attribution
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Priest · 4 June
Filippo Smaldone was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Salesian Sisters of the Sacred Hearts. Smaldone is best known for his extensive work with the deaf during his lifetime.
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Monastic · 12 December
Finnian of Clonard – also Finian, Fionán or Fionnán in Irish; or Finianus and Finanus in its Latinised form – was one of the early Irish monastic saints, who founded Clonard Abbey in modern-day County Meath.
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Monastic · 10 September
Finnian of Movilla was an Irish Christian missionary. His feast day is 10 September.
Ireland (historical island) · Historical region
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Monastic
Fintan of Clonenagh was an Irish hermit and monk. He was an abbot and disciple of Columba of Terryglass.
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