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How much do you know about the saints? Saints of the Liturgical Year, brimming with information, includes over two hundred and sixty brief biographies, including thirty-three new entries, as well as a glossary of terms to help explain the theology of the Roman Catholic Church. Based on the General Roman Calendar, presently in use in the Roman Catholic Church, it also includes the feasts, Saints,...

Pope Benedict XIV declared him a doctor of the Church in 1754. The opening prayer today echoes St. Leo’s constant teaching that the Church is founded on the rock of Peter. St. Martin was born of pagan parents in Sabaria, Pannonia (today’s Szombathely, Hungary), in about 316. His father was an officer in the Roman army and had moved his family to Pavia, Italy, where Martin grew up and became a catechumen. At the age of fifteen years, Martin joined
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