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  Regina

  Saint Regina (Regnia, French: Sainte Reine) (3rd century) was a virgin martyr and saint of the Catholic Church. She was born in Autun, France, to a pagan named Clement. Her mother died at her birth and her father repudiated her. She then went to live with a Christian nurse who baptized her. Regina...
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  Saint Lucy

  Saint Lucy, also known as Saint Lucia, (283 – 304) was a wealthy young Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint by both Catholic and Orthodox Christians. Her feast day in the West is 13 December, by the unreformed Julian calendar the longest night of the year; with a name derived from lux,...
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  Maria Goretti

  Maria Goretti (16 October 1890 – 6 July 1902) is an Italian virgin-martyr of the Catholic Church, and is one of its youngest canonized saints. She was martyred after dying from multiple stab wounds, inflicted by her attempted rapist after she refused him because of love of Jesus and her loyalty to...
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  Hemma of Gurk

  Hemma of Gurk (sometimes Emma) (c. 980 – 27 June 1045) is a saint and a founder of religious houses in Austria. Hemma was a member of the noble family of Peilenstein, related to the Liutpoldings of Bavaria and thus to Emperor Henry II. She was born Countess of Zeltschach and was brought up at the...
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  Rose of Lima

  Saint Rose of Lima, (April 20, 1586 – August 24, 1617), the first Catholic saint of the Americas, was born in Lima, Peru. Rose was born in the present-day city of Lima (Peru). She received the baptismal name Isabel Flores de Oliva. She was from a large family. Her father, Gaspar Flores, was a...
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  Saint Emma

  Emma of Lesum or Emma of Stiepel (also known as Hemma and Imma) (ca. 975-980 – 3 December 1038) was a countess popularly venerated as a saint for her good works; she is also the first female inhabitant of Bremen to be known by name. Emma was born into the Saxon noble family of the Immedinger,...
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  Hyacintha Mariscotti

  Saint Hyacintha Mariscotti or Hyacintha of Mariscotti ((Italian) Giacinta Marescotti or Giacinta Mariscotti) was a religious of the Third Order of St. Francis and foundress of the Sacconi (also known as the Oblates of Mary, a Traditionalist Catholic order of nuns). She was born in 1585 of a noble...
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  Saint Humility

  Saint Humility (Humilitas; Italian: Umiltà) (c. 1226 – May 22, 1310) was a founder of Vallumbrosan convents, and considered the founder of the Vallumbrosan Nuns. Born Rosanna Negusanti to a noble family from Faenza, she was married at the age of fifteen to a nobleman named Ugoletto (Ugonotto) dei...

• Joaquina Vedruna de Mas

  Saint Joaquina Vedruna de Mas (or Joaquima, in Catalan) (Barcelona, Spain, April 16, 1783 – August 28, 1854) was a Spanish nun, founder of the Carmelite Sisters of the Charity. She was born from a noble family. In 1799, she married the lawyer and Vic's landowner Teodoro de Mas, with whom she had...

• Blessed Maria Theresa Chiramel

  Blessed Maria Theresa Chiramel (April 26, 1876 – June 8, 1926) was a Syro-Malabarese Catholic nun who was beatified in 2000. She was the daughter of Thoma and Thanda Chiramel Mankidiyan in the village of Puthenchira, Trichur District, Kerala. She was baptized Thresia Chiramel Mankidiyan on May 3,...