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St. Albert the Great
He studied and classified plants, animals, minerals and the stars by observation, taught that experiment is the only safe guide in such work, and made Aristotle usable by Christian theology.
Feast November 15 · Swabia, and Cologne
St. Andrew the Apostle
He was the first of the apostles to be called, and the first thing he did with it was fetch his brother: we have found the Messiah. He kept doing it — bringing forward the boy with the loaves, bringing the Greeks who asked to see Jesus.
Feast November 30 · Galilee and Achaia
St. Cecilia
Her grave lies in the catacomb of Callistus, immediately beside the crypt of the popes — the most honored ground in Christian Rome — and the Church has kept her name there since the fourth century.
Feast November 22 · Rome
St. Elizabeth of Hungary
She built a hospital of twenty-eight beds below the Wartburg and went down to the patients every day, fed nine hundred poor people daily, and spent her last three years nursing the sick in a second hospital at Marburg, where she waited on them at her own table.
Feast November 17 · Hungary, and Thuringia and Hesse in Germany
St. Leo the Great
He wrote the letter on Christ's two natures that the Council of Chalcedon accepted as the Church's faith, went north to meet Attila and talked him into leaving Italy, and walked out defenceless to meet Genseric's Vandals and ask them to spare Rome.
Feast November 10 · Tuscany and Rome
St. Margaret of Scotland
An Anglo-Saxon princess who married Malcolm III of Scotland, held a synod to reform the Scottish church, founded Dunfermline Abbey, and died at Edinburgh in 1093.
Feast November 16 · Scotland
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