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While a mere youth St. Ephrem became a religious in his native city, Nisibis, Syria. Later he retired near Edessa to be a Monk, refusing the dignity of the priesthood.

Saint Boniface, the apostle of Germany, was an Anglo Saxon, born in Devonshire, England, in 680, and received the name Winfrid at his Baptism.

St. Thomas Aquinas was born in the fortress of Rocca Secca, about the year 1225. It was to the little town of Aquino nearby that he owed his surname Aquinas.

St. Justin was born near Sichem, now Pablus, in Palestine, about the year 100. His father, a non-believer, brought him up in the superstitions of paganism.

St. Bede who was born about the bear 673. He became a Benedictine Monk, and wrote many historical and biographical works, including beautiful lives of Anglo-Saxon Saints, commentaries on portions or books of Sacred Scripture,