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St. Faustina Kowalska
At sixteen she went into domestic service to support herself and help her parents, and for thirteen years afterwards she cooked, gardened and kept the door of her convent while writing the diary she had been told to keep.
Feast October 5 · Głogowiec and Kraków, Poland
St. Francis de Sales
He walked a hostile district of Savoy for four years preaching, and when nobody would come and hear him he wrote his arguments on leaflets and scattered them until people did.
Feast January 24 · Savoy, and the Diocese of Geneva at Annecy
St. Francis of Assisi
He got down off his horse to embrace a leper and gave him all his money, went to live among lepers and ate out of the same bowl, and gave away everything he owned to the poor.
Feast October 4 · Assisi, Italy