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St. Paula - The Masterpiece of the Doctor of Scripture

St. Paula - The Masterpiece of the Doctor of Scripture

If all the members of my body were to be converted into tongues, and if each of my limbs were to be gifted with a human voice, I could still do no justice to the virtues of the holy and venerable Paula.”1 This is how St. Jerome begins one of …
Sr. Maria Beatriz Matos - 31, December 2019

St. Pio of Pietrelcina - Cross, Persecution and Glory

St. Pio of Pietrelcina - Cross, Persecution and Glory

St. Pio of Pietrelcina - Church of Our Lady of Miracles, Rome In the centre of the Campania region, a few kilometres from the commune of Benevento, lies the small agricultural town of Pietrelcina. There, in a simple house having only a few rooms, lived the family of Grazio Forgione …
Fr. Fernando Néstor Gioia, EP - 31, August 2019

St. Pancras of Rome - The Supernatural Strength of a Young Christian

St. Pancras of Rome - The Supernatural Strength of a Young Christian

In his tragicomedy Le Cid, the famous seventeenth-century French playwright Pierre Corneille puts these words in the mouth of the protagonist, Don Rodrigo: “True, I am young, but for souls nobly born valour does not await the passing of years.”1 This beautiful and inspiring affirmation well describes the state of …
Fr. Arturo Nicolas Hlebnikian, EP - 30, April 2019

St. Agnes of Montepulciano - Abbess, Mystic and Wonderworker

St. Agnes of Montepulciano - Abbess, Mystic and Wonderworker

In paging through the biographies of the Saints, we are amazed at the different ways in which the Holy Spirit acts to bring souls to a complete and definitive union with God. While some, like St. Paul, are shaken by a resounding fall and called to a radical conversion only …
Sr. Lucilia Virginia Bassi - 31, March 2019

St. Rose of Viterbo - Mercy and Intransigence Flowing from Ardent Love

St. Rose of Viterbo - Mercy and Intransigence Flowing from Ardent Love

“Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes …
Bruna Almeida Piva - 28, February 2019

St. Virginia Centurione Bracelli - A Contemplative, Serious Soul, Delight of God Most High

St. Virginia Centurione Bracelli - A Contemplative, Serious Soul, Delight of God Most High

It is the end of the sixteenth century. This historical period is marked by impiety and atheism, by attachment to luxury and riches, by sin and immorality. The Church needs fiery souls, who with untiring zeal will renew the face of the earth. And among the elite battalion that Providence …
Sr. Emelly Schnorr - 30, November 2018

St. Athanasius of Alexandria - Herald of the Truth, Courageous Athlete of the Faith

St. Athanasius of Alexandria - Herald of the Truth, Courageous Athlete of the Faith

It was the year 325. Although relative peace reigned in the Church due to the fact that Emperor Constantine had given full liberty to worship, a serious dilemma furtively mounted within her… It was necessary to take a resolute position to combat a danger a thousand times worse than the …
Sr. Ariane Heringer, EP - 30, April 2018

Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew - Faithful Assistant of Jesus’ Great Friend

Blessed Anne of St. Bartholomew - Faithful Assistant of Jesus’ Great Friend

Entrusting her little daughter Anne to the care of the two girls sewing on the porch of their residence, the mother cautioned: — Keep an eye on your little sister, because if she falls from this height, it could kill her. Like good Spaniards, the two girls kept up a …
Sr. Isabel Cristina Veas - 31, May 2017

Blessed Francisco Marto - “I Suffer to Console Our Lord”

Blessed Francisco Marto - “I Suffer to Console Our Lord”

In the period between the apparitions of Fatima and the deaths of Francisco and Jacinta Marto, the Most Holy Virgin produced in their souls a work of perfection that made them worthy to figure among the great Saints of the Church. In casting her gaze upon these little shepherds, Our …
Sr. Carmela Werner - 31, March 2017

St. Joan of Valois - Royalty Embracing Suffering

St. Joan of Valois - Royalty Embracing Suffering

In our days, marked with the sign of secularism, there is an effort to stamp out all suffering from life as if it were something noxious that separates us from the path of happiness. However, despite the fact that scientific breakthroughs have made it possible to control most pain, it …
Sr. Carmela Werner - 31, January 2017

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