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Catherine Labouré
Born May 2, 1806, in Fain-lès-Moutiers, Burgundy, France, Zoé Labouré was the ninth of eleven children of a farming family in the Côte-d’Or. Her mother died when she was nine years old. She later said she took the househ…
Kateri Tekakwitha
Kateri Tekakwitha was born in 1656 at Ossernenon, a Mohawk village in present-day Auriesville, New York. Her father was a Mohawk chief; her mother was an Algonquin woman who had converted to Christianity. When Kateri was…
Carlo Acutis
Carlo Acutis was born on May 3, 1991, in London, where his Italian parents were temporarily living. He was raised in Milan, and from his earliest years showed an unusual spiritual seriousness that coexisted with an entir…
Miracles 3
Healing of Matteo Pio Colella
Matteo Pio Colella was born on December 4, 1992, in San Giovanni Rotondo — the town where Padre Pio had lived, and where his tomb now draws pilgrims from around the world. On January 20, 2000, when Matteo was seven years…
Incorruptibility of Catherine Labouré
Catherine Labouré died on December 31, 1876, at the hospice at Reuilly, Paris, after forty years of service to elderly men in the care of the Daughters of Charity. She was buried in the vault beneath the chapel there. Sh…
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal
In the summer of 1830, a twenty-four-year-old novice of the Daughters of Charity in Paris received the first of several visions that would eventually result in one of the most widely distributed religious objects in Cath…