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Sep 27 Teresa of Avila declared the first female doctor of the church

Today in 1970 and travel to Rome where Pope Paul VI finally named the Spanish Mystic and reformer, Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada, a...

Aug 2, 20215 min read

Aug 2 Edith Stein

Today in 1942 the Carmelite Nun Edith Stein was arrested in her convent in the Netherlands by the SS and taken to Auschwitz concentration...

Jul 27, 20216 min read

July 27 Bonhoeffers Parents find out he is dead through the BBC

Today Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s, parents learnt of his execution by Nazis at Flossenberg concentration camp through a radio broadcast from...

Jun 8, 20217 min read

June 9 Terese of Liseux - The Story of a Soul

At the age of 14, on Christmas Eve in 1886, Therese had a conversion that transformed her life. From then on, her powerful energy and...

May 12, 20215 min read

May 13 The Shooting of John Paul II

Today we remember an assassination attempt that shocked the world. Its 1981, the last years of the Cold War, and the early years of the...

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