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14 July - Camille was the son of an officer who had served in the Neapolitan and French armies. His mother died when he was still a child and his upbringing was completely neglected. At a young age he became a soldier in the service of Venice and then Naples, until 1574, when his regiment was dissolved.
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13 July - Son of Henry the Quarrelsome, Duke of Bavaria and Gisele of Burgundy, daughter of King Conrad III of Burgundy, Henry, destined to be a cleric like his brother Bruno, is educated by the Church, first by Bishop Abraham of Freising, then in the cathedral school of Hildesheim.
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12 July - Olivier Plunkett was born in Ireland on 1 November 1629. He was brought up by his Benedictine uncle in Dublin. He then went to Rome to study theology. At the end of these studies, he cannot return to his country because of the persecution unleashed by Cromwell and remains in Rome for three more years during which he exercises his ministry there.
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12 July - Jean Gualbert, a native of Tavarnelle Val di Pesa in the Province of Florence from a rich family of the city. He is brought up in excess, but his life changes the day he forgives his brother's (or a relative's) executioner by meditating on the passion of Christ.
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11 July - Benedict was born around 480-491 to a noble Roman family from Nursia in Umbria. His childhood takes place in Nursia, where he lives with his parents and receives a good education. When he reaches adolescence, Benedict leaves his family, like most children of the Italian nobility, to study liberal arts.
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10 July - We will talk about two saints with the same name of Ulrich. The first: Ulrich was born in Regensburg around 1029 into a well-to-do family, whose parents were named Bernhold and Bucca. Ulrich was educated at the school of St. Emmeran's Abbey in Regensburg with the future abbot of Hirsau Abbey, Wilhelm (1030-1091), with whom he remained friends for the rest of his life.
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09 July - Zhao Rong was born in 1746 in Kweichou. He is from a pagan family. At the age of 20, he enlists in the Chinese Imperial Army. A few years later, during the government persecutions against Christians, he is in charge of guarding Christian prisoners. He then listened to the priests who spoke and continued to proclaim the Gospel while in detention.
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08 July - Son of the crusader Bouchard de Marly, and Mathilde de Châteaufort (granddaughter of King Louis VI), born at the castle of Marly, he received like any noble a military education but in a very Christian environment. From a very young age, he showed great devotion to the Blessed Virgin, whom he called "his good Mother and his dear Mistress".
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07 July - María Romero Meneses was born on 13 January 1902 into a well-to-do and religious family in Granada, Nicaragua. It was at the College of the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians that she discovered the life and work of St. John Bosco. It was in Salesian spirituality that her plan for religious life was born.
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06 July - Mary Goretti - known as Marietta - was born on 16 October 1890 in Corinaldo, in the region of the Italian Marches, whose capital is the port of Ancona, to a pious and very poor family. In 1899, the plot of land that her family cultivated was no longer sufficient to feed them and the Goretti's were forced to move to Le Ferriere di Conca, in the diocese of Albano, south of Rome.
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05 July - Antoine was born in Cremona in the Duchy of Milan in 1503. He loses his father when he is only two years old. An only child, he is raised by his mother. He studied philosophy at the University of Pavia and then, in 1520, medicine in Padua. At the end of his studies, he practised as a doctor in Cremona between 1524 and 1527.
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04 July - Elizabeth of Aragon, born in Saragossa on 4 January 1271, is the daughter of Peter III of Aragon, King of Aragon and Sicily, and Constance II of Sicily. Elizabeth was the great-niece of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, whose first name she bore. She married Denis I, the sixth King of Portugal, on 24 June 1282 in Trancoso.
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