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Saint Mammes and Duke Alexander Tapestry

... that Mammes of Caesarea is said to have been breast-fed by his father?
... that Maria Bertilla Boscardin, who was rejected by one religious order for her slowness, became a nurse and was eventually canonized a saint in the presence of several of her earlier patients?
... that the recently beatified Paul Joseph Nardini died of pulmonary typhus he contracted while giving the last rites to a member of his parish?