Antonia Bibiana Manuela Torres y Acosta was born in Madrid, Kingdom of Spain, on December 2, 1826, second of five children. Her father, Francisco Torres, was a dairyman, and her …
Celso Alonso Rodríguez – not to be confused with the Jesuit St. Alonso Rodríguez – was born in Rioseras, province of Burgos, Spain on July 28, 1896, into a poor …
Élisabeth Turgeon was born on February 7, 1840, in Beaumont, Quebec, Canada, one of nine children of Louis-Marc Turgeon and Angele Labrecque. Her father died when she was 15, and …
Patrick Ryan was born on September 29, 1845, in County Tipperary, Ireland. His family moved to the United States when he was a child, and he grew up in New …
Marie Guillemette (Wilhelmina) Emilie de Rodat, more commonly known in history as Émilie or Emily de Rodat, was born to a noble family on September 6, 1787, in Rodez, Aveyron, …
Marcello Loewy was born on July 8, 1890, in Triest, Italy, the younger of two children. His parents raised him as Jewish, the faith he practiced until he was twenty-four. …
Angela Salawa was born on September 9, 1881, in Siepraw, a village near Krakow, Poland, eleventh of twelve children. Her father, Bartlomiej Salawa, was a blacksmith, and her mother, Ewa …
John Eudes was born on November 14, 1601 near Ri, Normandy, France. As a young man, he studied with the Jesuits at Caen and joined the Oratorian Fathers on March …
Jeanne Delanoue was born the youngest of twelve children in Saumur, France on June 8, 1666. Her parents ran a shop close to the shrine of Notre-Dame-des-Ardilliers. Jeanne’s father sold …
Edmund Bojanowski was born on November 14, 1814, in the Duchy of Warsaw (Poland). His parents, Walenty Bojanowski and Teresa Uminska, were devout Catholic Christians and members of the nobility. …
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