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St. Padre Pio
For more than fifty years he heard confessions at San Giovanni Rotondo for anyone who came, and he built a hospital there — the House for the Relief of Suffering — insisting the medicine practiced in it be human.
Feast September 23 · Pietrelcina and San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy
St. Patrick
He returned as a bishop to the country where he had been a slave, preached across Ireland in the language he learned in captivity, and organized its church: through me many peoples were born again in God.
Feast March 17 · Ireland
St. Paul
He founded churches across the empire, made tents so as not to burden them, and gathered from those Gentile churches a collection for the poor of Jerusalem he called a liturgy.
Feast June 29 · Tarsus and Rome
St. Peter
He answered for the Twelve that Jesus was the Christ, baptized the centurion Cornelius and so opened the Church to Gentiles, and spoke the deciding word at the Council of Jerusalem.
Feast June 29 · Galilee and Rome
St. Peter Damian
He left a teaching career to live as a hermit, then wrote a treatise naming the vices of the clergy of his day and made enemies with it. Sent to Milan as the pope’s legate, he faced down a rioting crowd in the cathedral and got both sides to accept his ruling.
Feast February 21 · Ravenna, and the hermitage of Fonte Avellana
St. Philip the Apostle
He did not argue. When Nathanael asked whether anything good could come out of Nazareth, Philip did not defend the answer — he said “Come and see”, and let Jesus do the rest. He did the same thing later for the Greeks who wanted to meet him.
Feast May 3 · Bethsaida on Lake Genesareth
St. Pier Giorgio Frassati
He hauled supplies to the poor of Turin himself, gave away his own money, and never treated his faith as a private thing.
Turin, Italy
St. Polycarp
Asked to save his life by cursing Christ, he answered that he had served him eighty-six years and been done no harm, and asked how he could curse the King who saved him. He said it out loud, in a stadium, to a proconsul offering him a way out.
Feast February 23 · Smyrna