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04 September - Rosalie was born in 1130 into a noble Sicilian family. She was the daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Quisquina and Rosa, relative of Roger II of Sicily, King of Sicily, and descendant of the family of Charlemagne.
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03 September - Gregoire or Gregory I, known as the Great, is the 64th Pope of the Catholic Church. Gregory was born in Rome around 540. His father, Senator Gordian, is administrator of one of the seven districts of Rome. Two of his sisters are honored saints (Tharsilla and Æmiliane), and he had Pope Felix III among his ancestors. His mother, Sylvie, is also honored as a saint.
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02 September - She was the granddaughter of King Knut of Sweden and the great-aunt of St. Brigitte of Sweden. Now a widow, she is making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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September 1 - Saint Gilles the Hermit is a legendary gyrovaga monk from Merovingian or Visigothic Occitania. Born in Athens, this holy monk is said to have come to live as a hermit at the mouth of the Rhône in Languedoc in the 7th century. He died around the year 720.
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August 31 - Raymond Nonnat, born in 1204 in Portell, Catalonia, was nicknamed nonnat (from the Latin non natus, meaning unborn), because he was born just after his mother's death in childbirth.
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August 31 - Aristide of Athens is a Christian apologist of the first century. An Athenian philosopher, he converted to Christianity and was one of the first to respond with his pen to the attacks on the Christian religion at the beginning of the 2nd century.
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August 30 - Saint Fiacre is the offspring of a noble family from Ireland then called "Hibernia" or "Land of Scots". He was first educated by Saint Cuanna in the monastery of Kilcoony, on the edge of Loch Orbsen. Fiacre revealed such a talent for herbal care that he became famous there.
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August 28 - Augustin of Hippo, born November 13, 354 in Thagaste, the present Souk Ahras, Algeria, and died August 28, 430 in Hippo, is a Roman Christian philosopher and theologian of the upper class. Along with Ambrose of Milan, Jerome of Stridon and Gregory the Great, he is one of the four Fathers of the Western Church and one of the thirty-six Doctors of the Church.
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29th August - The John we are talking about here is the forerunner of Jesus and who baptised him. He is the son of Zechariah and Elisabeth and his life was recorded here in June. Moved by the Spirit of God, John takes refuge in the desert to preserve the grace he has received. He lives there until he is thirty years old, practising prayer and contemplation. Then he begins his public life by preaching conversion and baptism, hence his name Baptist.
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27 August - Monique, born in 332 in Thagaste in the Roman Empire, now Souk Ahras in Algeria and died in 387 in Ostia, is a Christian of Berber origin. Her son, Augustin, one of the greatest Christian theologians, paid vibrant homage to her, particularly in his Confessions
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26 August - Zefferino Namuncurá was born on 26 August 1886 in Chimpay, in a traditional Mapuche family. His father, one of the last leaders of his people, had to surrender to the Argentinean Republican troops three years before Zefferino's birth.
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25 August - Born on 25 April 1214 in the Château de Poissy, under the reign of his grandfather Philippe Auguste, Louis IX is the fifth child and second son of the future King Louis VIII, known as "the Lion", and Princess Blanche of Castile. He only became the heir at the age of four, after the early death of his elder brother Philip.
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