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By Diogenes ( articles ) | Dec 13, 2005

The Bishop of Marquette, Michigan, James Garland, due to retire next December, has resigned under of the provisions of Canon 401 §2. The Holy See has appointed 45-year-old Fr. Alexander Sample as the next bishop.

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Memorial of St. Monica

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Today the Church celebrates the Memorial of St. Monica (333-387) was born in Tagaste, northern Africa and died in Ostia, near Rome. Monica was a Christian, but her husband Patricius was a pagan and a man of loose morals. Monica's virtues and prayers, however, converted him, and he was baptized a year before…

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