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Dogma of the Assumption of Mary Body and Soul into Heaven - Mary’s Triumph!

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 202, August 2024
A devout and attentive reading of the Acts of the Apostles lets us savour and at the same time relive the atmosphere of springtime graces that enveloped, like a protective cloak, the Church that had just been born. She was fragile as a tender child, in everything contingent and fearful, …

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Élisabeth of France - The Last Sun of Versailles

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 202, August 2024
Among the lugubrious events of the French Revolution, there is no doubt that the beheading of more than forty thousand victims, together with the unspeakable massacre of three hundred thousand Vendeans, constitute a less-than-prestigious backdrop for those who claimed to be fighting in the name of liberty, equality and fraternity. …

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The Crowning Achievement of a Loyal Subject

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 202, August 2024
“I am grateful to you for the honour that Your Majesty has done me by increasing the number of your household officers in my person.”1 The above words were addressed to Louis XIV by one of his subjects. Was this the beginning of a speech by a troop commander? Or …

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Show What You Truly Are

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 7, nº 66, April 2013
In all of your actions, in all of your works and in your conversation, imitate the good, emulate the saints. Carefully consider the example of the just, and seek to imitate them. [...] "St. Isidore of Seville" - Basilica of San Isidoro, León (Spain) Do not feign a life of …

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Splendour, at the Crossroads of History…

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 202, August 2024
Versailles was built in a context that could, from a certain point of view, be called a crossroads in history. The starting point of the Middle Ages was the invasion of the barbarians into the Roman Empire and their mixing with the decadent Europeans of that territory. Plunged into a …

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The Ensemble Is Greater

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 16, nº 180, October 2022
Dear reader, allow me to pass on something that recently caught my attention. While I was praying the Rosary, walking through the grounds of my community, I came across a beautiful flowering shrub. It was a hibiscus, known scientifically by the name Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, which evokes a special aspect of …

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The prophet Isaiah – The Messianic Prophet

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 20, nº 226, August 2026
Praised by Sacred Scripture as a “holy prophet” and “faithful in the sight of God” (Sir 48:23, 25), Isaiah is recognized for the extensive duration of his public life and the rich content of his writings. Considered the first of the four major prophets of the Old Testament, he was …

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Escolapia Martyrs of Valencia - Heroism in Simplicity

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 202, August 2024
Spain, 1936. The civil war had spread throughout the country and in Valencia it caused religious and priests to disperse, because of the risks they faced there. The civil uprisings were the result of revolutionary movements that had emerged during the Second Republic, proclaimed in April 1931 – movements loaded …

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The Basilica of St. Mary Major - Symbol and Bulwark of Orthodoxy

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 202, August 2024
On the Esquiline Hill, the highest in the Eternal City, stands a magnificent church like a standard proclaiming Mary’s victory over her adversaries. The Basilica of St. Mary Major, whose dedication the Holy Church celebrates on August 5, has a beautiful history that takes us back to a past steeped …

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A Mother Who Always Answers Her Children’s Pleas!

Heralds of the Gospel Magazine, Vol. 18, nº 202, August 2024
It was due to a lack of bread to offer an unexpected visitor that, in the parable told by the Divine Master, an afflicted man had to appeal to the charity of a friend in the middle of the night (cf. Lk 11:5-8), but it was only through stubborn persistence …
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