James of La Marca

Alban Butler — Lives of the Saints, with Reflections for Every Day in the Year (1894) · St. James of La Marca of An-

cona, 367 St. Jane Frances de Chantal,

289 St. Jane of Valois, 62 St. Januarius, 318 The Japanese Martyrs, 64 St. Jerome, 326 St. Jerome Emiliani, 256

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INDEX

St. John the Almoner, 141 St. John the Baptist, 227 St. John the Baptist, Behead- ing of, 296 B. John of Britto, 75 St. John Cantius, 340 St. John Chrysostom, 50 St. John Climacus, 130 St. John of the Cross, 365 St. John of Egypt, 127 St. John, Evangelist, 387 St. John before the Latin Gate,

170 St. John Francis Regis, 219 St. John of God, 100 St. John Gualbert, 247 St. John of Matha, 67 St. John Nepomueen, 181 St. John the Silent, 178 St. John of St. Fagondez, 215 Sts. John and Paul, Martyrs,

230 Sts. Jonas, Barachisius, and

their Companions, 129 St. Joseph, 115 St. Joseph Calasanctus, 295 St. Jovita, 74 St. Jude, 345 St. Julia, 189 St. Juliana Falconieri, 222 Sts. Julian and Basilissa, 30 St. Julius, 144 St. Justin, 200 St. Justina, 323

Little pictorial lives of the saints : with reflections for every day in the year : compiled from "Butler's Lives" and other approved sources : to which are added lives of the American saints : placed on the calendar for the United States by special petition of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore · ST. JAMES OF LA MARCA OF

HE small town of Montbrandon, in the Marca of An- cona, gave birth to this Saint. When young he was sent to the University of Perugia, where his progress in learning soon qualified him to be chosen preceptor to a young gentleman of Florence. Fearing that he might be ingulfed in the whirlpool of w^orldly excesses, St. James applied himself to prayer and recollection. When travel- ling near Assisium he went into the great Church of the Portiuncula to pray, and being animated by the fervor of the holy men who there served God, and by the example of their blessed founder St. Francis, he determined to petition in that very place for the habit of the Order. He began his spiritual war against the devil, the world, and the flesh,

with assiduous prayer and extraordinary fasts and watch- ings. For forty years he never passed a day without taking the discipline. Being chosen Archbishop of Milan,

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