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June
4Saints of the Day
June
4
Saints of the Day
Italian noble, related to Saint
Thomas Aquinas and to the princes of
Naples,
who founded with John Augustine Adorno the Congregation of the Minor Clerks
Regular with a ministry to the
sick
and to
prisoners.
Established Congregation houses in
Rome,
Madrid,
Valladolid, and Alcala. Noted for his work for the
poor,
and as a miracle worker and prophet; he was a popular
preacher,
and cured by blessing the
sick
with the sign of the cross.
Born
13 October
1563
at his family's castle at Villa Santa Maria,
Abruzzi,
Italy
as Ascanio Pisquizio
Saints of June 4:
http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0604.htm
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