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4. St Andrew of Crete (660-740) archbishop and writer of hymns |
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Andrew is recognised as theologian, homilist, and hymnographer. Patrick Duffy tells what is known about him.
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14. T'lily of the Mohawks |
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Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha was the daughter of Mohawk chief and Kahenta, a woman of the Alonquin tribe who had found Christ through the evangelisation done by the Jesuit priests in what is now upstate New York. She is the first native North American to be beatified. Fr John Murray tells her story.
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9. St Augustine Zhao Rong (d. 1815) and 119 companion Chinese martyrs (1648-1930) |
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On 1 October 2000, Pope John Paul II canonised 120 Catholic martyred in China between 1648 and 1930. Of these group, 87 were indigenous Chinese and 33 were missionaries; 86 died during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900. Three were indigenous Chinese priests - Father Augustine Zhao Rong, Father Joseph Yuan and Fr Thaddeus Liu. Others were lay catechists, seminarians, widows and young women, farmers, servants and cooks. Patrick Duffy records some of the details.
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2. St Swithun (d. 862) bishop of Winchester |
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Saint Swithun (or Swithin) was an English bishop of Winchester, best known from the popular belief that if it rains on Saint Swithun's day, 15 July, it will rain for 40 days and 40 nights. When Swithun died 2 July 862 he was buried, at his own request, out of doors. But when more than a hundred years later on 15 July his remains were moved to a new shrine inside the cathedral, it is said that the ceremony was delayed by 40 days of torrential rain, a sign of Swithin's displeasure at the move. Patrick Duffy traces Swithin's story.
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13. St Teresa of the Andes (1900-1920) |
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Saint Teresa of the Andes (1900–20) lived only twenty years, yet in that time she showed such an extraordinarily intense love of life and of God that she was canonised by Pope John Paul II in 1993. She is the first Chilean saint. Patrick Duffy tells her story.
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