St Sophie Barat (May 25) ran the Society of the Sacred Heart for 62 years
Spiritual Life
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The saint who was Pope for 161 days
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St Celestine (May 19) abdicated the chair of St Peter in 1294
The 14-year-old beheaded for his faith whose name lives on in north London
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St Pancras (May 12)
The saint who inspired an active Christianity
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St Theodosius of Kiev (May 3) demanded a warm and charitable devotion
The servant-saint who was held up as an example by her masters
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The body of St Zita (Aprl 27) is paraded through the streets of Lucca every year
St George: the soldier-saint of which little is known for sure
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St George (April 23) is patron saint not only of England, but also Russia, Palestine, Greece and Catalonia
The saint who grew up in poverty and saw the Virgin Mary
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St Bernadette (April 16) lived a humble life of deep Catholic devotion
The saint who showed a revolutionary fervour for educating the poor
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Jean-Baptiste de la Salle (April 7) was the founder of the Institute for the Brothers of the Christian Schools
The saint who wrote The Ladder of Divine Ascent
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St John of Climacus (March 20) was responsible for one of the most important devotional texts of the Middle Ages
The saint who would interrupt Mass with a public confession of her wickedness
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St Margaret of Cortona (February 22) lived as a mistress to a nobleman for nine years
















Our political masters need to get this: theological problems can only have theological solutions
By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith