Walburga was the daughter of the saintly Saxon prince Richard of Wessex. At the invitation of St Boniface, she accompanied her brothers SS. ...

He was a disciple of the Apostles, bishop of Smyrna, and a friend of St Ignatius of Antioch. He went to Rome to confer with Pope Anicetus ab...

From the works of the saint, and the histories of those times. His life written by John IV., patriarch of Jerusalem, who lived two hundred y...

FRIGHT The word has an unpleasant sound. It does not appear nowadays in popular medicine, but there used to be phrases like mortification ha...

Sweet Mother, Mistress of the Sacred Spring  Whence flow abundant grace and every blessing. To thee our empty hearts we humbly bring, Their ...

Origin Of This Practice IN the writings of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque we find the following exhortation: “In union with the divine H...

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