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Category Archives: Saints: Stories & Symbols
PODCAzT 119: The Holy Name and Blasphemy
Today is the feast of St. Bernardine of Siena (+1444) in both the Extraordinary and the Ordinary Forms of the Roman Rite, and therefore I use this opportunity to offer something from one of his discourses about the Most Holy … Read More →
Sts. Nunilo and Alodia, pray for us
I was delighted to receive a little book from a reader in Pamplona, Spain, about Saints Nunilo and Alodia. Our saints, little girls, were 9th c. virgin martyrs in Huesca, Spain. They were born to a Muslim father and Christian … Read More →
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Of Monnica and Martyrs
Today in the older, venerable, traditional Roman calendar, is the feast of St. Monica, widow and mother of St. Augustine of Hippo. In the post-Conciliar calendar her feast was transferred to the end of August. Monnica, is a spelling that … Read More →
Cause proposed for California-based Basque Claretian missionary priest
From the Pasadena Star-News with my emphases and comments: Claretian priest buried at the San Gabriel Mission is subject of recent petition for sainthood By Brenda Gazzar, SAN GABRIEL – Three decades after his death, a steady stream of visitors … Read More →
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A Pope as tough on himself as he was on others
From the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the Catholic Herald comes this story about a saintly Pope in difficult times. My emphases and comments: The holy pope who lived on vegetable broth and crayfish St Pius V (April 30), who excommunicated … Read More →
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25 March surprise!
Today is of course the day we celebrate the “fullness of time”. In the fullness of time, the Eternal Word, the Second Person, took our humanity into an indestructible bond with His divinity. Today is the Feast of the Annunciation. … Read More →
22 March: St. Nicholas Owen, martyr
The 2005 Roman Martyrology has this entry: 7. Londinii in Anglia, sancti Nicholai Owen, religiosi e Societate Iesu et martyris, qui multos annos latebras pro sacerdotibus condendis exstruxit, quapropter sub Iacobo rege Primo incarceratus et gravissime tortus, demum in eculeum … Read More →
The Cause of Bp. Baraga
I picked this up from my friend Fr. John Boyle’s blog Caritas in Veritate. It concerns the cause for beatification of the first bishop of Marquette, MI, Frederic Baraga. Baraga went to my native Minnesota as well. March 12, 2011 … Read More →
Egypt: 4000 Muslims attack Coptic homes, burn church
St. Nunilo and Alodia, pray for us. Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) — A mob of nearly four thousand Muslims has attacked Coptic homes this evening in the village of Soul, Atfif in Helwan Governorate, 30 kilometers from Cairo, and … Read More →
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Set a new trend in naming that baby!
I don’t do “help me name my baby” questions around here, except to suggest that you pick a saint’s name, spell it normally, and go for it. That said, I would like to see a new trend back to some … Read More →
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