Portal:Saints/Did you know/July 2007

... that Bona of Pisa, after seeing a vision of James, son of Zebedee, became a leader of pilgrimages to his shrine at Santiago de Compostella?
... that Germerius is said to have been given as much land as the shadow of his cloak could cover (about a six mile radius) by Clovis I in exchange for his prayers?
... that John Campanius, an early Lutheran missionary to Delaware, transliterated the Lenape language and created one of the first documents to be written in a Native American language?
... 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?