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• Pope Francis gives church hundreds of new saints

  
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  Pope Francis, middle, kisses the altar as he arrives to celebrate his first canonization ceremony in St. Peters Square at the Vatican, Sunday, May 12, 2013. The pontiff will canonize Antonio Primaldo and his companions, also known as the Martyrs of Otranto, Laura di Santa Caterina da Siena Montoya of Colombia, and ...
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• 800+ Canonized Today

  
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  Largest Canonization Pope Francis in one weekend has canonized more saints than any other Pope in history and the single most in one day. By the time this is posted, Pope Francis will have canonized the 813  Martyrs of Otranto . I just learned about this group yesterday morning during one of my IPT classes. 800 ...
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• Early Christian Martyrs Mostly Myths

  
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  Notre Dame professor tackles ‘myth’ of Christian martyrdomBy Liz Goodwin, Yahoo! News | The Lookout – Fri, May 3, 2013Candida Moss, a professor of early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame and a practicing Catholic, wants to shatter what she calls the “myth” of martyrdom in the Christian ...
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• Tarot Card of the Week: 10 of Wands

  
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  The 10 of Wands is a card of exhaustion, oppression, and collapse.  Heavy and over-burdened, Dali has used the figure of Jesus walking the Via Dolorosa, or Path of Suffering, [...]
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• St. Peter Martyr

  
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  Today is the feast of one of my patrons, the great Dominican martyr, St. Peter of Verona. St. Peter was canonized just one year after his martyrdom by Cathar assassins.  As a young boy I was deeply impressed by his story - his head split open by an ax, he began writing the creed in his blood on the ground.  I was ...
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• How easy it can be to become a martyr ...

  
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  This past week, Father Nicolò Rusca (1563-1618) was beatified. Father Nicolò Rusca (1563-1618), a priest who was tortured and killed at the instigation of Calvinists, was beatified on April 21 in Sondrio, the northern Italian city of 20,000 where he served for decades as a parish priest.  Cardinal Angelo Amato, ...
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• Apr 24 – Homily – Fr Dominic: St. Fidelis and the True Vine

  
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  Homily #130424 ( 06min) Play - Fr. Dominic preaches about St Fidelis, a Capuchin friar who left a promising career as a lawyer to enter the friary. He prayed daily for the gift of martyrdom. Later, he was sent to Switzerland to preach against the Protestant heresies and obtained that desire when a group of ...
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• Christian Martyr: Martin of Boston at Church

  
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    From John Paul Sonnen : From the Internet: "PRAY FOR BOSTON: 8-yr old Martin Richard, who died in the attack the day after receiving his First Holy Communion symbolizes our pain and yet at the same time our hope: his 1st Communion banner, with the dove of peace, the Holy Spirit, and the ...
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• St. George the Anarchist? Adolf the Good Shepherd? St. George of Lydda was not a Good Shepherd, but on AH’s 124th birthday we might well reflect whether Der Fuhrer appealed to the sincere craving most people have for a Good Shepherd, a true leader: medit

  
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  Today is St. George’s Day, the national day of England, Aragon & Portugal, Greece, and Russia (literally the Four Corners of Europe).  The real dragon that the historical St. George slew was not a scaly monster with wings but (in … Continue reading →
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• A Coptic Bohairic Leaf Recovered from a Syriac Manuscript: A New Textual Witness of the Martyrdom of Macrobius

  
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  A couple of weeks ago, Adam McCollum (Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, Minnesota) sent me the photograph of the recto of a paper leaf written in the Bohairic dialect of Coptic. The fragment was used as an endpaper in a … Continue reading →
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• Newton, Boston, and the Martyrology of Whiteness

  
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  “Lord God, merciful God, our Father, shall we keep silent, or shall we speak? And if we speak, what shall we say?” – Dorothy Day, January 1942 FRIDAY—THE BARE FACTS AND THE CHURCH’S RESPONSE This is going to be a very difficult piece to write and, in all honesty, I do not know if I am going to do a very ...
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• GOLDENROOM Issue 17 ‘Life’s Events’

  
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  With  Spring  (coming soon hopefully) comes planning (and sometimes planting) of important occasions and events, to commemorate and often to celebrate. But for GOLDENROOM readers planning Life’s Events arouses the foremost question  for people of dual heritage or in cross cultural relationships:  how do they ...
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• Following Christ Often Makes Life More Difficult

  
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  In Peter we have a striking mirror of our ordinary condition. Many have an easy and agreeable life before Christ calls them; but as soon as they have made profession of his name, and have been received as his disciples, or, at least, some time afterwards, they are led to distressing struggles, to a troublesome life, ...
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