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Category Archives: Saints: Stories & Symbols
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 →
Posted in Just Too Cool, Linking Back, Saints: Stories & Symbols, SESSIUNCULA
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Tagged Copts, Egypt, Sts. Nunilo and Alodia
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5 Comments
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 →
Posted in Just Too Cool, Saints: Stories & Symbols
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Tagged Archd. Los Angeles, cause, Claretian, Fr. Aloysius Ellacuria
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13 Comments
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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Tagged Council of Trent, Missale Romanum, Roman Catechism, St. Pius V
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21 Comments
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 →
Posted in Modern Martyrs, The future and our choices
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Tagged Copts, Egypt, Islam, Religion of Peace, Sts. Nunilo and Alodia
34 Comments
34 Comments
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 →
England: Martyrs’ relics escape blaze at Marian Shrine
I believe that you can still get a discounted subscription to the online, digital full version of the Catholic Herald for a mere “tenner”, £10. Right now about $16.27. And speaking of the UK’s best Catholic weekly, the lovely and … Read More →
Fr. Kelly on A matter of grave concern: People who pray together before or after Mass.: “Within the first couple of years of his papacy, I recall (but I have not been able to find the…”
