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Category Archives: Saints: Stories & Symbols
Whose feast today in the Roman Calendar?
According to the 2005 Martyrologium Romanum today is … 1. Commemoratio sancti Iosue, filii Nun, servi Domini, qui, cum Moyses manus ei imposuisset, repletus est spiritu sapientiae et post Moysis mortem populum Israel per Iordanis alveum in terram promissionis mirabiliter … Read More →
Sts. Nunilo and Alodia pray for us… at Ground Zero
From Dick Morris.com we find this about the proposed mosque at Ground Zero. My emphases and comments, to be followed by some irony. The proposed mosque near to ground zero is not really a religious institution. It would be — … Read More →
A counter-proposal for the Mosque at Ground Zero
I have been following the debate over the building of a mosque at Ground Zero in Manhattan. I have a counter proposal. Let us build a chapel dedicated to Sts. Nunilo and Alodia next to the mosque. Saints Nunilo and … Read More →
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The Tears of St. Lawrence are still flowing
Did you know that the annual Perseid Meteor Shower is nicknamed "The Tears of St. Lawrence"? The shower occurs every year around the feast of the grate … great Saint as Mother Earth zooms through a cloud of debris deposited … Read More →
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2 August: Portiuncula Indulgence
To Midnight 2 August, you can gain the "Portinuncula" Indulgence. Catholic Encyclopedia St. Francis, as you know, repaired three chapels. The third was popularly called the Portiuncula or the Little Portion, dedicated to St. Mary of the Angels. It is … Read More →
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New film about Opus Dei’s founder, St. Jose Maria Escrivá
I received a press release that there is to be a major motion picture about St. Jose Maria Escrivá, the founder of Opus Dei. It will be directed by the man who made the movie The Mission. There is a … Read More →
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Bp. Baraga’s cause for beatification takes another step
From CNA: Sainthood cause of ‘snowshoe priest’ heads to Vatican Marquette, Mich., Jul 28, 2010 / 03:27 am (CNA).- Following a four-month investigation, the Diocese of Marquette has closed its inquiry into an alleged miracle attributed to its first bishop, … Read More →
26 July: Sts. Joachim and Anna, parents of Mary, Mother of God
Today is – in the reformed, post-Conciliar calendar – the feast of both Sts. Joachim and Anna, the parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, grandparents of the Savior. In the traditional calendar it is the feast of St. Anna. Here … Read More →
24 July: Astonishing Saints and good red wine
A glance through the Martyrologium Romanum today will produce astonishment. Among the many saints listed today you will find, St. Charbel St. Christina, virgin and martyr Sts. Boris and Gleb St. Balduin St. Cunegunda Bl. Nicholas Garlick, Robert Ludlam, and … Read More →
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23 July: St. Ezekiel, prophet
From rogueclassicism: ante diem x kalendas sextilias Neptunalia — an obscure festival (obscure in the sense that we really don’t know what went on) in honour of Neptune ludi Victoriae Caesaris (day 4) 64 A.D. — the Great Fire of … Read More →
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