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Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - Heralds Magazine

Our Lady of Iverskaya - Guardian and Gate of Heaven

Nicaea, in the 9th century. The persecution of the truth has become violent. In the hands of a widow lies the fate of a precious icon. There are only two options: either allow the sacred painting to fall into enemy possession and be desecrated, or throw it into the sea. …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 30, April 2023

“I’ll become a famous nun!”

In the 21st century, more than two thousand years after the supreme Sacrifice on Calvary, holiness is often thought to be a passé ideal, incompatible with life in today’s world, unattainable in the midst of globalization, unthinkable in the world of instant messaging and social networks. This is what a …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 31, March 2022

The Reform of the Incarnation, and St. Teresa’s Kitchen

Avila, 1562. After twenty-seven years of cloistered life in the Monastery of the Incarnation, Teresa of Jesus left the almost one hundred and eighty religious who had accompanied her in her first steps in her vocation, and set out on the greatest adventure of her life: the reform of the …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 30, September 2021

A Garment of Light and Splendour from India

W alking down the street in India is no easy task! It teems with merchants, children, cyclists, motor vehicles and other more versatile forms of locomotion, suited to manoeuvring amidst this explosion of life. After all, India is the second most populous country in the world, with a civilization that …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 31, July 2021

Symphonic Silence!

Let us travel a little on the wings of imagination, and go back to the year 1743, March 23rd to be precise. We are situated at the Royal Opera House in London. There, a glorious performance awaits us: the premiere on English soil of George Friedrich Handel’s famous Oratory, Messiah. …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 31, January 2021

The Most Beautiful Crowns of Christendom - More Than Just Jewels… A Link with Heaven!

The fascinating role of crowns, whose trajectory spans history, dates back to the dawn of civilization. From ancient times, the heads of the Roman Caesars were encircled with laurel wreaths, those of Germanic barbarians with precious metals and dazzling stones; and surpassing them all in grandeur and glory, the Son …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 31, October 2022

St. Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis von Stade - The Orphanhood of a Daughterless Mother…

To many of our contemporaries, and even to some Catholics, the saints seem like towering mountains of virtue, superhuman beings, predestined, separated from all and from everything, inimitable in the awesome grandeur of their deeds… Yet, from the heights of Heaven, where they enjoy eternal bliss, how they must smile …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 31, October 2025

Near-Death Experiences - The “Dead” Who Came Back to Tell…

Four days had passed since the stone had been laid on the tomb. The body, according to the Holy Scriptures, already had a foul odour. However, Lazarus came back to life and became an indisputable symbol of Jesus’ omnipotence: His power over life and death extended beyond the threshold of …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 31, October 2023

The Conflict Between David and Goliath – The “Stone” of Grace versus the Greatness of Man

The sacred pages contain paradigms for all of history. One of them – and one of the most eloquent – is the duel between a young man who was “ruddy, and had beautiful eyes, and was handsome” (1 Sam 16:12) and a brutal giant from Philistia (cf. 1 Sam 17). …
Sr. Diana Milena Devia Burbano - 01, February 2026

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