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18 July - Frederic of Utrecht was born around 780. He was sent to Utrecht by his mother, the grandson of the King of the Friesians, and was elected bishop there in 820/826, despite his reluctance, at the behest of the Western Emperor Louis the Pious, with whom he quarrelled a few years later.
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17 July - Simon Stock was born in Kent in 1164. According to tradition he was an itinerant preacher until he joined the Carmelite Order. He would have joined the Carmelite Order only after making his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, and joined the hermits on the slopes of Mount Carmel.
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17 July - Saint Marcelline was born at Trier, in the Prefecture of the Praetorium of the Gauls, around 330 and died around 398. Her brother was Saint Ambrose of Milan. Her father was Prefect of the Pretorium of Transalpine Gaul.
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July 16 - Marie-Madeleine Postel, born Julie Françoise-Catherine in Barfleur on November 28, 1756, was a founding nun of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Christian Schools of Mercy in 1807. Daughter of a tailpiece maker from Barfleur, she was sent to the Benedictine nuns of Valognes, then returned in 1776 to her hometown to open a school for poor children.
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July 16 - Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel (or Our Lady of Mount Carmel) is one of the various names of the Virgin Mary. Its name comes from Mount Carmel, in the Holy Land. Carmelite religious orders exist today throughout the world, both male and female, dedicated to this Marian figure.
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15 July - He was born to Giovanni da Fidanza and Maria Ritella. Baptised Giovanni at birth, he later takes the name "Bonaventure". According to a 15th century tradition, the young Giovanni, who was seriously ill, was brought to Francis of Assisi, who cried out when he saw him: "O buona ventura!". ("What luck!").
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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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