Saints who knew eachother while on earth

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These are all very interesting. Sanctitiy is like a fire that spreads from one to another. Through witness: A key to the communion of Saints. It’s as if heaven and earth are overlapping when we see examples of Saints in a personal communion this side of heaven!👍
 
a very large saintly family

Ethelburga of Faremoutiers, OSB Abbess (RM)
(also known as Aubierge, Ædilburh)
Died c. 664. The daughter of King Anna of the East Angles, Ethelburga longed to live the life of a nun. It seems that she lived in a family of saints that included her sister Saint Etheldreda.

Her eldest sister, Saint Sexburga, married King Erconbert of Kent. Sexburga influenced her husband a great deal. The Venerable Bede says that Erconbert was “the first English king to order the complete abandonment and destruction of idols throughout the kingdom.” He also ordered everyone to observe the Lenten fasts. Their daughter, Saint Ercongota, entered a convent in Gaul with her aunts Ethelburga and Sethrida because, according to Bede, “as yet there were few monasteries in England.” About 660, Ethelburga succeeded her convent’s founder, Saint Fara and her half-sister Sethrida, as abbess of the monastery of Faremoutier in the forest of Brie. She began to build a church there dedicated to all twelve Apostles, but she died before completing it and was buried in the half- finished building in 665. Later the nuns decided they could not afford to complete the church and Ethelburga’s relics were reinterred in the nearby church of Saint Stephen the Martyr. At that time, her body was found to be incorrupt.

*Ercongota of Faremoutiers, OSB V (AC)
(also known as Ercongotha, Erkengota)
*Died 660; feast day at Ely and Faremoutier is February 21 and at Meaux, February 26. Ercongota was the daughter of King Erconbert of Kent and Saint Sexburga, who became abbess of Ely. Together with her aunt, Saint Sethrida, she was a nun at the double monastery of Faremoutier under her aunt, Saint Ethelburga. Ercongota died while still young, but Saint Bede relates traditions of her visions and prophecies. She visited the older nuns to say farewell and ask their prayers before her death. Angelic visitors arrived at the monastery at the moment of her death. The fragrant scent of balsam emanating from her grave at St. Stephen’s Church testified to her sanctity (Benedictines, Farmer).

*Sexburga of Ely, Widow Abbess (AC)
*Died c. 699. Sexburga was the daughter of King Anna of the East Angles; sister of SS. Etheldreda, Ethelburga, Erconwald, and Withburga; and half-sister of Saint Sethrida. Sexburga married King Erconbert of Kent in 640 and bore him two daughters, SS. Ermenilda and Ercongotha. Upon Erconbert’s death in 664, Sexburga finished Minster Monastery, which she had founded on Sheppey Island, and joined the nuns there. She appointed her daughter Saint Ermenilda abbess and then went to Ely Abbey, where she succeeded her sister Etheldreda as abbess and where Sexburga died (Attwater, Benedictines, Delaney). In art, Saint Sexburga is a crowned abbess with a palm branch (Roeder).
 
St. Francis, St. Clare, St. Anthony, St. Bonaventure

St. Catherine of Sienna, St. Vincent Ferrar

St. Francis de Sales, St. Jane Frances de Chantel, St. Vincent de Paul

Though I don’t think they knew each other, St. Maximillian Kolbe and St. Faustina both lived in Poland at the same time and died within a few years of each other.
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Saint John Bosco and his student, St Dominic Savio.

Saint Augustine and his mother, St Monica.
 
St.Mary Magdalene and our Bl.Mother !

Scripture ( Proverbs 26 ) mentions how hatred and deceit inside is like seven abominations and how our Lord cast out seven demons from St.Magdalene - she possibly needed ongoing control of The Holy Spirit and what better person to be with than our bl.Mother - the enemy of the agent of evil !🙂

Most persons with our fallen / narcissitic nature possibly have some traits of these - from the desire to control / use / demean others for ones own selfish needs and not to do God’s will !

All the pain caused to oneself or from others from these traits can be taken up to our Bl.Mother asking her to use same , in union with all pain of our Lord’s Passion , in the power of The Spirit , to be used for healing and conversion of the one who is primarily the cause of the pain and also for many, many others - to be blessed with new hearts , that are under the full control of The Holy Spirit !

Immaculate Heart of Mary pray for us all !

St.Mary Magdalene , pray for us !
 
“God, however, does not make men holy and save them merely as individuals, without bond or link between one another.”

–*Lumen Gentium
 
JULY 13
ST. HENRY II
Henry was born in 972. He became the duke of Bavaria in 995. One night he had an unusual vision. St. Wolfgang, who had been his beloved teacher when he was a boy, appeared to him. Wolfgang pointed to the words, “after six” written on the wall. What could that mean? Perhaps Henry was to die in six days? With that thought, he prayed with great fervor for six days. At the end of the six days, however, he was in perfect health. Perhaps it meant six months? The duke devoted himself to doing good more than ever. At the end of six months, he was healthier than before. So he decided he had six years to get ready for death. But instead of dying after that time had passed, he was elected emperor of Germany. Then he understood what the vision had meant.
Henry worked hard to keep his people happy and at peace. To defend justice he had to fight many wars. He was honest in battle and insisted that his armies be honorable too. Henry married a very gentle and loving woman named Cunegundes (or Kunigunda) around 998. She, too, has been proclaimed a saint. Henry and Cunegundes went to Rome in 1014. They were crowned emperor and empress of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a great honor because Pope Benedict VIII himself crowned them.
Emperor Henry was one of the best rulers of the Holy Roman Empire. He promoted Church reform. He encouraged the growth of new monasteries and built beautiful churches. He showed his own love for Jesus and the Church with sincerity and love. He was a man of prayer and was greatly attracted to religious life. But he accepted his role as husband and ruler and fulfilled his responsibilities generously. Henry was just fifty-two when he died in 1024. He was proclaimed a saint by Blessed Eugene III in 1146. Pope St. Pius X named Emperor Henry the patron of Benedictine Oblates.
 
Saint Clement of Ohrid

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Also known as
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http://saints.sqpn.com/dot.gif Kliment Ohridski
http://saints.sqpn.com/dot.gif one of the Seven Apostles of Bulgaria

Memorial 17 July
Profile Student of Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius in Moravia and Panonia. Building on their work, he helped found Slavic literature and culture in Macedonia. He was the first Slavic writer, translated dozens of works, wrote a biography of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and founded the first Slavic university in Ohrid. Friend of Saint Naum. Served in the Bulgarian court. Taught from 886 to 893 at Kutmicevica, being a great influence on over 3,000 students, many of whom became priests and spread the Slavic liturgy through the region. Spiritual teacher of Saint Constantine the Presbyter. Bishop of Belica, the first organised Slav Church on the Balkan Peninsula. Bishop of Ohrid. Founded Saint Pantaleimonth’s monastery.
 
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