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History – Life’s Teacher - Heralds Magazine

Giovanni Gabrieli and Sacred Music - Sing Unto the Lord a New Song

Perhaps few things are as difficult to express in words as music! In its varied and vast scope, the universe of music amounts to an art form that, without exaggeration, can be said to verge on the infinite, for it somehow participates in the immateriality proper to spirits. That being …
Fábio Henrique Costa - 30, November 2025

Fr. Walter Joseph Ciszek, SJ - Complete Surrender to the Divine Will

We know that the journey of human life is not made up solely or even mostly of joys and pleasures, but that it is frequently punctuated by unspeakable suffering and disastrous situations that clash with our aspirations… How to conform oneself to God’s will in circumstances like these? The story …
Guilherme Thiago Motta - 30, April 2025

The Real Conquerors

The twenty-ninth of March 1549. Almost fifty years after its discovery, around a thousand men from the Lusitanian armada anchored at the Land of the Holy Cross to colonize it. In the midst of this army, six discreet figures clad in black, armed only with virtue and ingenuity, disembarked with …
Gabriel Lopes dos Anjos - 31, January 2025

Anne of St. Bartholomew and the Power of Prayer - An Elite Troop for the Church

“Tell me, who is the first captain of the age?” a noble lady asked Maurice of Nassau.1 “Spinola is the second!” he replied proudly, thereby naming himself first man-at-arms. Maurice led the Calvinist troops in Holland and had already inflicted numerous defeats on the Catholic forces, conquering almost the entire …
Sr. Maria Teresa Matos - 31, December 2024

The Feats of Catholic Soldiers during World War I - A Catholic Can Only Be a Hero!

To be Catholic, one must be a hero. But how often, to be a hero, one must be Catholic. The first principle, every Catholic discovers with the impact of their first spiritual battles. To prove the second, let us refer to some events that occurred in the first months of …
Rúben Manuel Cunha Guimarães - 31, October 2025

The Vulgate Bible - A “Betrayal” of the Word of God?

Injustice can penetrate even the most unsuspected areas of human culture. The proof is that it has infiltrated proverbs, as exemplified by the Italian adage: “Traduttore traditore – The translator is a traitor.” But, despite the insult it casts on the honourable profession, this aphorism has its grain of truth. …
Ângelo Francisco Neto Martins - 31, August 2025

The Crystal Defended by the Lion

The fourth century was an epoch of war, and of the worst kind there is: that which unfolds in times of peace. The persecution of the Christians by Roman paganism had ceased with the imperial edicts granting freedom to the Church. But then arose the threat of threats, crueller than …
José Manuel Gómez - 31, August 2025

1,700 Years Since the Council of Nicaea - Five Lessons for Today

If history is life’s teacher, we can judge an institution that has existed for two millennia to be privileged! Nothing, except the ever-new action of Providence, is new for the Catholic Church. In the face of the unprecedented storms of the 21st century, she can proudly say: “I have seen …
Gabriel Marques dos Santos - 31, May 2025

The Black Death - When Calamities Teach Humanity

There are several ways to read a book. In one of them, a person understands the meaning of the sentences, the simple combination of words, phrases and paragraphs almost mathematically, experiencing a brief dose of impressions that the plot may arouse. When talking to a reader like this, we will …
Marcos Vinícius Santos - 31, July 2025

Duchess Sophie Chotek von Hohenberg - Marital Fidelity Taken to the Extreme

June 28, 1900. With a determined mind, Archduke Franz Ferdinand – heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire – accepted the destiny reserved for his future wife, Countess Sophie Chotek, and the children that God would give them, signing the terms of a renunciation that deprived them of …
Sr. Luciana Niday - 30, June 2025

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