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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE ➡️ Tomorrow ⬅️ Yesterday Saint of the Day Saint feast day June 20 Blessed Margaretha Ebner Saint Alban, Protomartyr of Britain Saint Adalbert, Archbishop of Magdeburg Saint Avatia Saint Bain, Bishop of Therouanne   Cano of Hemmenrode, Religious Saint Edburge, Virgin   Saint Florentina, Virgin Saint Gobain of Ireland Saint Helena of Auxerre, Virgin Helia, Virgin and Abbess Saint Itisberga, Virgin Blessed John Gavan, Priest and Martyr Saint Macarius, Bishop Blessed Margaretha Ebner   Maria Sanchez of Lorca, Virgin Saint Novatus, Confessor Saint Paternus, Bishop of Vannes Saint Patrick, Companion of Saint Ives Saint Patrick, Martyr of Rome Paul, Priest of Concordia Philipp Högl, Priest and Religious Saint Silverius, Pope and Martyr Blessed William Harcourt, Priest and Martyr Wolfgang Grindel, Religious Blessed Berthold, Religious, and Blessed Meinrich, Religious   The Irish Catholic Martyrs Saint Paul and Companions, Martyrs of Tomi ...

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JUNE Saints celebrated on the 20th of June WELCOME! BLESSED MARGARETHA EBNER, VIRGIN Born of rich parents at Donauworth, 1291; died  July 20, 1351. She received a thorough classical education in her home, and later entered the Dominican convent at Maria-Medingen near Dillingen, where she was solemnly professed in 1306.  SHE ENTERED THE DOMINICAN CONVENT In 1312 she was dangerously ill for three years, and subsequently for a period of nearly seven years she was most of the time at the point of death. Hence she could exercise her desire for penance only by abstinence from wine, fruit, and the bath.  On her return from home, whither she had gone during the campaign of Louis the Bavarian, her nurse died, and Margaretha grieved inconsolably, until Henry of Noerdlingen assumed her spiritual direction in 1332. THE DIARY The correspondence that passed between them is the first collection of this kind in the German language. At his command she wrote with h...