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Find accurate definitions of over 5,000 Catholic terms and phrases (including abbreviations). Based on Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.

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ST. ANN

(national shrine). Founded in New Orleans in 1852 by Archbishop Antoine Blanc as St. Ann's Church. On May 18, 1926, in a papal brief, Pope Pius XI made it the national shrine of St. Ann for the United States. A shrine bureau was established, and St. Ann's Herald became the official publication. Upwards of seventy thousand letters asking for prayers and favors come to the shrine annually.

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Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Martin de Porres, Religious

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Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres (1579-1639), who lived a life of fasting, prayer and penance as a Dominican lay brother. He was born in Peru of a Spanish knight and a Negro woman from Panama. Martin inherited the features and dark complexion of his mother, and for…

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