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St. Margaret of Scotland
An Anglo-Saxon princess raised in exile in Hungary who married Malcolm III, reformed the Scottish church, and died at Edinburgh in 1093, days after her husband fell in battle.
Feast November 16 · Scotland
St. Maria Goretti
She forgave the man who stabbed her before she died, and asked to meet him in heaven; he later admitted what he had done, asked her family's pardon, and expiated it.
Feast July 6 · Le Ferriere, Italy
St. Mark
The John Mark of Acts, cousin of Barnabas and companion of both Paul and Peter, remembered as the writer of the second Gospel.
Feast April 25 · Jerusalem and Alexandria
St. Martha
The sister of Mary and Lazarus who fed Jesus at Bethany and told him plainly what she thought; since 2021 the three are remembered together.
Feast July 29 · Bethany
St. Maximilian Kolbe
He built a publishing operation that reached a million readers, sheltered refugees and Jews when the Nazis came, and at Auschwitz stepped out of the line to die in another man's place.
Feast August 14 · Poland