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St. Ursula and the 11,000 Virgins

St. Ursula is traditionally honored as the leader of a company of virgin martyrs who suffered martyrdom for Christ.

St. Teresa of Ávila

Spanish Carmelite reformer and Doctor of the Church; authored spiritual classics and renewed contemplative prayer.

St. Ursula

British princess; led pilgrimage of virgins to Rome; martyred in Cologne; patron of students and educators.

St. Maria Bertilla Boscardin

Italian nun of Sisters of St. Dorothy; devoted to caring for sick; miracles after death; patron of nurses and the sick.

St. Mary Frances of the Five Wounds

Franciscan tertiary from Naples; mystic; stigmatic; patron of Naples.

St. Noël Chabanel

French Jesuit missionary among the Hurons; martyred in Canada; canonized with the North American Martyrs (1930).

St. Placidus

Disciple of St. Benedict, honored among early Benedictine saints; martyred for the faith.

St. Quentin

Roman missionary in Gaul, tortured and beheaded under Maximian. Miracles reported at his tomb in Saint-Quentin, France.

St. Rafael Guízar y Valencia

Bishop of Veracruz; ministered in secret during Cristero War; miracles of healing and conversions.

St. Reparata

St. Reparata: Sub-entry within multi-reliquary R643.