Monastic / Hermit · October 6
St. Bruno of Cologne
Bruno of Cologne , venerated as Saint Bruno, was the founder of the Carthusians.
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Monastic / Hermit · October 21
St. Hilarion
Hilarion , also known by the bynames of Thavata, of Gaza and, in the Orthodox Church, as the Great, was a Christian anchorite who spent most of his life in the desert according to the example of Anthony the Great .
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Monastic / Hermit · November 13; December 22
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
Frances Xavier Cabrini , also known as Mother Cabrini, was a prominent Italian-American religious sister in the Catholic Church.
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Bishop · November 16
St. Margaret of Scotland
Saint Margaret of Scotland , also known as Margaret of Wessex, was Queen of Alba from 1070 to 1093 as the wife of King Malcolm III.
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Monastic / Hermit · November 18
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
Rose Philippine Duchesne, RSCJ , was a French religious sister and educator whom Pope John Paul II canonized in 1988.
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Monastic / Hermit · November 16
St. Agnes of Assisi
Agnes of Assisi was one of the founding members of the Poor Clares.
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Monastic / Hermit · November 23
St. Columbanus
Columbanus was an Irish missionary notable for founding a number of monasteries after 590 in the Frankish and Lombard kingdoms, most notably Luxeuil Abbey in present-day France and Bobbio Abbey in present-day Italy.
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Martyr · December 1
St. Charles de Foucauld
Charles de Foucauld, born as Charles Eugène, vicomte de Foucauld de Pontbriand , in religion Charles of Jesus, was a French monk, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria.
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Doctor of the Church · December 4
St. John of Damascus
John of Damascus or John Damascene, born Yūḥana ibn Manṣūr ibn Sarjūn, was a Christian monk, priest, hymnographer, and apologist.
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Priest / Deacon · December 5
St. Sabbas the Sanctified
Sabas , in Church parlance Saint Sabas or Sabbas the Sanctified , was a Cappadocian Greek monk, priest, grazer and saint, who was born in Cappadocia and lived mainly in Palaestina Prima.
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Doctor of the Church · December 14
St. John of the Cross
St. John of the Cross was a Spanish Catholic priest, mystic, and Carmelite friar. He is a major figure of the Counter-Reformation in Spain, and he is one of the 38 Doctors of the Church.
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Doctor of the Church · September 17
St. Hildegard of Bingen
Hildegard of Bingen , also known as the "Sibyl of the Rhine", was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath, active during the High Middle Ages as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner of the Catholic…
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