Sr. Elizabeth Veronica MacDonald

“Look, Margaret!” From a barred window in the Tower of London, Sir Thomas More called to his daughter to witness the scene: five priests – John Haile, a secular clergyman, Richard Reynolds, a Brigittine monk and renowned theologian, and three Carthusian priors, John Houghton, Robert Lawrence and Augustine Webster, clad …

“My God, if that’s how it is, I give up!” It was October 1942. With this cry from the heart, a fourteen-year-old youth directs his steps to the study hall of the seminary of Quảng-Uyên, run by French Dominicans. Despite his simple, friendly and even charismatic character, we find him …

As unlikely as it may seem, the rugged mountain-island seen on these pages is hailed as “a place sanctified by a thousand years of prayer.”1 Virtually lost in the sea, eleven kilometres off the Irish coast, Skellig Michael attracts some eleven thousand people a year who undertake a risky excursion …

Shrouded in Atlantic mist and wrapped in a mantle of green, Ireland, in northern Europe, is compared to “an emerald set in the sea.” 1 If we unveil its scenario at the dawn of the fifth century, we find a country leagues behind the rest. Situated at the edge of …