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16 September - Cornelius became the twenty-first pope and succeeded Fabian, 14 months after the latter's death on January 20, 250. After Fabian's death, the persecution of Emperor Decius was so violent that Christians in Rome had to wait more than a year to elect a new bishop.
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September 15 - Our Lady of Sorrows, or more often: Our Lady of Seven Sorrows, and invoked in Latin as Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens, or Mater Dolorosa, is one of the many titles by which the Catholic Church venerates the Virgin Mary, Mother of Jesus.
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September 14 - Christian liturgical calendars include different Feasts of the Cross, all of which celebrate the Cross that served for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. While Good Friday commemorates the Passion of Christ and his crucifixion, these feast days honor the Cross itself as an instrument of salvation.
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13 September - John Chrysostome was born in Antioch between 344 and 349. His family, Christian, belonged to the Antiochian bourgeoisie. His father, an officer in the Syrian army, lost his life while John was still a child. He is then raised by his mother.
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September 12 - The celebration of the Feast of the Holy Name of Mary comes from a city in Spain, New Castile, for the first time in 1513. The celebration was abolished by Pope Pius V in 1570 and restored by Pope Sixtus V, and celebrated on September 17.
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11 September - Adelphe de Remiremont was the grandson of Saint Romaric, his date of birth is not known. He became abbot of the monastery of Saint-Mont (Vosges) upon the latter's death on December 3, 653.
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September 10 - Aubert was born near Avranches around 670 into the family of the Lords of Genêts, at the time of King Childebert IV. After the death of his family, he distributes his inheritance to the poor and becomes a priest.
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09 September - Peter Claver is born in 1580 in Verdú into a family of Spanish peasants. Gifted, he studied with the Jesuits before entering the novitiate of the Society of Jesus in Tarragona at the age of 20 on the 7th of August 1602.
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08 September - It is believed that it was the Church of Jerusalem that first honoured and commemorated the nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, celebrated in the basilica in the place where the Virgin Mary is supposed to be born. The sermon of Andrew of Crete describes the birth of the Virgin Mary.
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07 September - In 253, a sixteen-year-old Gaulish girl named Reine, who had converted to Christianity, was grazing her sheep at the foot of Mount Auxois, the presumed site of the Gallic oppidum of Alesia and then the Roman town. A Roman governor of the Gauls, Olibrius or Olimbrius, wanted to abuse her but she resisted and even refused to marry so as not to abjure her faith.
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06 September - Originally from Garrigues near Nîmes in the Gard, Bertrand was seduced by holiness and by St. Dominic's plan to convert the Cathars through prayer and the example of a life of poverty and austerity.
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05 September - Daughter of a priest from Tamieh (Fayoum) on the border of the Libyan desert, she was about twenty years old when Diocletian's persecution broke out.
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