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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At the end of its second General Assembly, held from 15 to 18 October 2024, the Episcopal Commission for Justice and Peace sent a message to government officials at all levels, as well as to all Malagasy and all people of goodwill.
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Read more ...The short film "Zatti, our brother" (Argentina, 2020) focuses on one of the most difficult episodes of his life. We are in Viedma, in 1941: at the age of 60, Zatti is forced to leave the hospital he has attended for decades. His faith and strength are tested.
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