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Pope sends greetings to cyclists as Tour passes by vacation spot

July 21, 2009

Pope Benedict XVI has sent his greetings to participants in the Tour de France, as the annual bicycle race passes through the Alps near the town of Les Combes, where the Holy Father is spending his summer vacation.

 

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The Roman Martyrology commemorates St. Louise de Marillac (1591-1660). She was born in 1592, and married in 1613. When her husband died she made a vow of widowhood and devoted herself entirely to works of charity. St. Vincent de Paul, who became her spiritual director, gradually initiated her into…

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