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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. Agnes of Rome
When the order against Christians was published she did not wait to be found out. She said what she was, in the open, and she was twelve or thirteen years old.
Feast January 21 · Rome
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. Sebastian
A Roman martyr commemorated in a list compiled in 354 and buried on the Via Appia; the soldier, the archers and the arrows come from Acts the sources reject.
Feast January 20 · Rome
St. Thomas Aquinas
He wrote the Summa Theologiae and the Summa contra gentiles, arguing that faith and reason cannot finally contradict each other, and he taught in the schools of Paris, Cologne, Rome and Naples for more than twenty years.
Feast January 28 · the Kingdom of Naples, and Paris