Saint of the Day (January 10) ✠ Pope Blessed Gregory X✠ Born: 1210, Piacenza, Italy Died: January 10, 1276, Arezzo, Italy Church: Catholic Church Title as Saint: Blessed Successor: Innocent V Papacy began: 1 September 1271 Previous post(s): Archdeacon of Li├иge (1246–1271) Papal Ascension : • Elected on 1 September 1271 following the longest election in the history of the Church. • Ascended to the throne on 27 March 1272. He was of an illustrious family, born at Placentia, and at his baptism was called Theobald. In his youth he was distinguished for his extraordinary virtue, and his progress in his studies, especially of the canon law, which he began in Italy, and pursued at Paris, and lastly at Liege. He was archdeacon of this last church, when he received an order from the pope to preach the crusade for the recovery of the Holy Land. Incredible were the pains which he took in executing this ...
Saint of the Day (November 27) ✠ St. Francis Fasani ✠ Italian Friar: Born: Giovanniello Fasani August 6, 1681 Lucera, Foggia, Kingdom of Naples Died: November 29, 1742 Lucera, Foggia, Kingdom of Naples Venerated in: Roman Catholic Church (Franciscan Order) Beatified: April 15, 1951 Pope Pius XII Canonized: April 13, 1986 Pope John Paul II Feast: November 27 Patronage: Lucera Saint Francis Anthony Fasani, was an Italian friar of the Order of Conventual Friars Minor who has been declared a saint by the Catholic Church. He was a friend of another Conventual friar, the Blessed Antonio Lucci. St. Francesco (Francis) Antonio Fasani was born as Giovanneillo in Lucera, Italy in 1681, the son of Giuseppe Fasani and Isabella Della Monaca. He entered the Conventual Franciscans in 1695 and took the names of St. Francis and St. Anthony. St. Francesco (Francis) Antonio Fasani was born as Giovanneillo in Lucera, Italy in 1681, the son of Giuseppe Fasani and Isabella ...
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