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St. Raphael the Archangel
He walks the whole way there and back with a frightened young man without saying who he is, gets him safely married, drives off what was destroying the marriage, and cures his father's blindness.
Feast September 29 · the road from Nineveh to Media, where the Book of Tobit places his journey
St. Rita of Cascia
Married at twelve to a violent man and widowed by murder, she begged Heaven to stop her sons taking revenge, then entered the Augustinians at Cascia.
Feast May 22 · Cascia, Italy
St. Rose of Lima
Born Isabel Flores de Oliva in colonial Lima, a Dominican laywoman who lived in severe penance in her parents' garden and became the first canonized saint of the Americas.
Feast August 23 · Peru
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
She took the Society of the Sacred Heart out of France, opened the first free school west of the Mississippi, and at seventy-two went to the Potawatomi to pray for work she could not do.
Feast November 18 · Grenoble and the Missouri frontier