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SAINT JOHN OF MATHA, CONFESSOR John of Matha was born in Faucon-de-Barcelonnette in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (France), the 23th of June 1154, from parents distinguished by piety and nobility. Educated with every care, from his childhood he showed such talents of ingenuity, seriousness and a heart so sensitive to the miseries of others, as to portend in him the future comforting angel of the afflicted. By his parent’s will he frequented for reasons of studies at first at the school of Aix-en-Provence, then he was sent at the Accademy of Paris, where he terminated the theological course and followed by the doctoral degree.