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José Anacleto González Flores was born in Tepatitlán (Jalisco, Mexico) on July 13, 1888, in an environment of extreme poverty. In 1908, he entered the auxiliary seminary of San Juan de los Lagos; he quickly made great strides in the sciences. When he realized that his vocation was not the ministerial priesthood, he enrolled in

Amadeus IX of Savoy, remembered as “the Happy”, was born in Thonon (France) to Duke Louis of Savoy and Anne de Lusignan. As a child he was betrothed to Yolande of Valois, daughter of King Charles VII and sister of Louis XI. Their marriage in 1451 was both a political alliance and a personal bond,

Top photo: Sarcophagus of Blessed Alojzije Stepinac behind the main altar of Zagreb Cathedral. (iStockphoto/Getty Images) Aloysius Stepinac came from a peasant family, born in Brezarici near Krasic (Croatia) on May 8, 1898. He was the fifth out of eight children, and his mother always prayed that he might one day become a priest. In

László Batthyány-Strattmann was born on October 28, 1870, in Dunakiliti, Hungary, the sixth child of a family of ancient Hungarian nobility. In 1876, the family moved to Kittsee-Köpcseny in present-day Austria due to the constant threat of flooding on the Danube. When László was twelve, he lost his mother, who died at the age of