Feast day: September 10
St. Nicholas of Tolentino
An Augustinian friar who spent thirty years preaching, hearing confessions, and serving the poor and sick of one Italian town, and who is especially invoked for the souls in purgatory.
Told in a vision to pray for the dead, he became the great patron of the holy souls in purgatory — and is said to have refused all food but bread soaked with a sign of the cross.
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