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Everyone in the list, in alphabetical order, with where each entry’s facts come from. Some entries run to several hundred words and some to a single sentence — that is what the sources support, not a judgment about the saint.
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St. John the Apostle
A Galilee fisherman called with his brother James, the disciple who leaned on Jesus at the Last Supper and stood at the cross.
Feast December 27 · Galilee and Ephesus
St. Joseph
The carpenter of Nazareth who took Mary into his home, named the child Jesus, and is not recorded saying a single word in Scripture.
Feast March 19 · Nazareth
St. Josephine Bakhita
She kept the door of the convent at Schio, laying her hands on the heads of the schoolchildren who passed, and travelled Italy telling people about the freedom she had been given.
Feast February 8 · Darfur, Sudan, and Schio, Italy