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12 August - Jeanne-Françoise Frémyot, Baroness of Chantal, born 23 January 1572 in Dijon, is a lady from Burgundy. Orphaned by her mother at the age of 18 months, her father Bénigne Frémyot, mortar president at the Parliament of Burgundy, gave her a solid education.
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11 August - St. Clare, born Chiara Offreduccio di Favarone in Assisi on 16 July 1194. According to the acts of her canonization process, Clare Offreduccio di Favarone is the daughter of Favarone, probably of the noble line of the Counts of Coccorano.
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10 August - St. Lawrence of Rome is said to have been born around 210 or 220 in Huesca, Spain. His father's name is Orence, and his mother's name is Patience. In order to complete his humanistic and liturgical studies, he was sent to Zaragoza, where he met the future Pope Sixtus II.
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09 August - St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross was born in Breslau, Germany, on 12 October 1891. Her real name is Edith Stein and her parents are Jewish.
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07 August - Gaëtan was born in Vicenza, then part of the Republic of Venice. His parents were Gaspard, Count of Thiene, and Maria Porto. His mother, very pious, encouraged him in the path of holiness.
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06 August - The Transfiguration is an episode in the life of Jesus Christ recounted in the New Testament. It is a change in Jesus' bodily appearance for a few moments of his earthly life, to reveal his divine nature to three disciples.
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05 August - Abel is a Benedictine monk born in Scotland. Malicious people took advantage of Abel's docility and kindness of heart
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04 August - Jean-Marie Vianney, known as the Curé d'Ars or the holy Curé d'Ars, born on 8 May 1786 in Dardilly (near Lyon). He was the parish priest of Ars (then Ars-en-Dombes, now Ars-sur-Formans) for 41 years.
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03 August - Lydia of Thyatira was a purple trader based in Philippes, Macedonia. Initially a Greek Jewess, she "clung to the words of the apostle Paul" (Acts 16, 14). Together with her family, she received baptism and offered hospitality to Paul. She is not mentioned elsewhere in the New Testament texts.
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02 August - Eldest son of Prince Władysław Czartoryski and grandson of Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, August was born on 12 August 1858 in Paris at the Hotel Lambert on the Île Saint-Louis, where his family had emigrated for political reasons thirty years earlier.
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1 August - Alfonse was born on 27 September 1696 in Marianella, a suburb of Naples. On the following September 29th he is baptized in the church of Santa Maria dei Vergini and receives the baptismal names of Alfonse, Mary, Anthony, John, Francis, Cosme and Damien, Michel and Gaspard.
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July 31 - Ignatius was born in Loyola Castle in 1491. Orphaned by his father at the age of fifteen, Ignatius left Loyola and became a page at the court of the King of Aragon Ferdinand, then joined the army of the Duke of Lara, Viceroy of Navarre in 1517.
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