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November 14 - Joseph Pignatelli, born in Zaragoza, Spain, on December 27, 1737, came from families of great nobility, both on the side of his Italian father, Antonio Pignatelli, and his Spanish mother, Francesca Moncayo-Fernandez de Heredia. He lost his mother at the age of 4 and was raised in Naples.
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13 November - St. Stanislaus Kostka, born 28 October 1550 in Rostkowo, Poland, belongs to a Catholic noble family from Mazovia, Poland, whose members held important positions in the government of Poland.
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12 November - Jehoshaphat, born Ivan Kountsevich in Volhynia, Ukraine, in 1584. He was still very young at the time of the Union of Brest in 1596 when part of the Church of Ruthenia was attached to Rome and constituted the Greek-Catholic Church or Ruthenian Church.
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11 November - Martin was born in the year 316 in Pannonia, in the city of Sabaria, now the city of Szombathely, Hungary. His father was a military tribune of the Roman Empire, i.e. a senior officer in charge of the administration of the army. It is probably no coincidence that Martin's name means "dedicated to Mars", Mars being the god of war in Rome.
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10th November - Leon was born towards the end of the 4th century, some say he was born in Tuscany, some say in Rome. Other documents say it was in Etruria. His father's name was Quintianus and the story of his childhood is not well known but his first known history dates back to 418. He was then an acolyte to Pope Zosimus.
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November 09 - Theodore was a Roman soldier and is one of the most famous martyrs of the Eastern Church. He was born in Syria towards the end of the third century. Be careful not to confuse him with the Holy Theodore revered on February 7th, as they are both soldiers and both martyrs.
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08 November - Geoffroy or Godefroy d'Amiens was born around 1066 at Moulincourt, in the diocese of Soissons. The third child of Frodo, Lord of Moulincourt and Elisabeth, he was taken in charge at a very young age by his uncle, Bishop of Soissons, who had him educated at the Abbey of Mont Saint-Quentin, near Péronne.
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07 November - Ernest is born in Steisslingen, Germany. As a young man he entered the Benedictine monastery at Zwiefalten on Lake Constance. He was director of this monastery from 1141 to 1146.
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06 November - According to tradition and the legendary account of his life, written in the 11th century, Leonardo was born into a Frankish family of officers of the court of Clovis at the end of the 5th century. Baptized by Saint Remi, Bishop of Rheims, he had Clovis himself as his godfather, and became a disciple of Saint Remi.
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05 November - Zechariah and Elizabeth are the parents of John the Baptist, and we know their stories from the Bible. According to the Bible, they are considered to be descended from a family of priests. They are the parents of John the Baptist, the forerunner of Jesus.
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04 November - Charles Borromeo, born in Arona on 2 October 1538. At the age of 12, he received the tonsure and benefit of the Benedictine Abbey of Arona, left vacant by his uncle Giovanni Angelo de Medici, who was Pope Pius IV.
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November 03 - Martin was born on December 9, 1579 in Lima, Peru. Illegitimate child of Jean de Porrès, knight of the Order of Alcantara, and Anne Vélasquez, freed black slave. A sister named Joanna was born two years later.
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