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Saint of the Day (November 10) ✠ Saint Andreas Avellino ✠ ( Confessor) Born : 1521 Castronuovo, Basilicata Died : 10 November 1608 Beatified : 1624 by Urban VIII Canonized : 1712 by Clement XI Major shrine : Church of St. Paul, Naples Feast : 10 November Patronage : Naples, Sicily, Badolato ; invoked against sudden death Born at Castronuovo (today Castronuovo di Sant'Andrea), a small town in the province of Potenza, in Basilicata, his baptismal name was  Lancelotto , which he changed to  Andrew  when he entered the Order of Theatines. After receiving his elementary training in the school at Castronuovo, he was sent to Venice to pursue a course in the humanities and in philosophy. Being a handsome youth, his chastity was often exposed to danger from female admirers, and to escape their importuning he took ecclesiastical tonsure. He went ...

Saint of the Day (November 10) ✠ St. Leo the Great ✠ 45th Pope/ Doctor of the Church : Birth name : Leo Born : 400 AD Tuscany, Western Roman Empire Died : November 10, 461 Rome, Western Roman Empire Venerated in : Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church Anglican Communion Feast : November 10 Pope Leo I, also known as Saint Leo the Great, was Pope from 29 September 440 and died in 461. Pope Benedict XVI said that Leo's papacy "...was undoubtedly one of the most important in the Church's history." He was a Roman aristocrat, and was the first pope to have been called "the Great". He is perhaps best known for having met Attila the Hun in 452 and persuading him to turn back from his invasion of Italy. He is also a Doctor of the Church, most remembered theologically for issuing the Tome of Leo, a document which was a major foundation to the debates of the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon. The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical c...