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Saint of the Day  (December 02)  ✠ Blessed Maria Angela Astorch ✠  Religious and Founder:  Born: September 1, 1592 Barcelona, Spain  Died: December 2, 1665 Murcia, Spain  Venerated in: Latin church  Beatified: May 23, 1982 Pope John Paul II  Blessed Maria Angela Astorch was a Spanish religious figure and mystic. Born in Barcelona, she founded the Capuchin Poor Clares of Zaragoza and Murcia. She died in Murcia and was beatified by Pope John Paul II on 23 May 1982.  A Very Young Postulant: Mother Mary Angela Astorch was given the name Jeronima Mary when she was baptized in Barcelona in 1592. She had lost both her parents by the age of five and was reared by a nanny. At around the age of seven, the little girl came down with a very serious illness and, according to contemporary witnesses’ reports, actually died but she was brought back to life again through the prayers of the aforementioned Capuchin nun, Mother Angela Margaret Seraph...

Saint of the Day (December  02) ✠ Saint Bibiana ✠ (Virgin martyr) Born : 4th century Rome Died : 360 AD Rome Venerated in : Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Major shrine : Santa Bibiana, Rome Feast : 2 December Attributes : column and scourge with leaded thongs; branch of a tree; dagger; scourge; depicted tied to a column Patronage : parish, epilepsy, epileptics, hangovers, headaches, insanity, mental illness, mentally ill people, single laywomen, torture victims Saint Bibiana (Bibiane, Viviana, or Vivian) is a Roman Virgin martyr. The earliest mention in an authentic historical authority occurs in the Liber Pontificalis, where the biography of Pope Simplicius (468–483) states that this pope "consecrated a basilica of the holy martyr Bibiana, which contained her body, near the 'palatium Licinianum'" (ed. Duchesne, I, 249). The Basilica of Santa Bibi...