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Sep 21, 20214 min read

Sep 15 Dominic and the miraculous painting

Today in 1530 a supposed 'miraculous' portrait of Saint Dominic appeared in Calabria, in the South of Italy. The image has garnered...

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, 20215 min read

July 26 Padre Pio

Today in 1919, Dr Amico Bignami conducted an investigation into the strange wounds that had appeared on the body of Francesco Forgione, a...

Jun 21, 20213 min read

June 22 The First Native North American Saint

Today we remember the beatification of Kateri Takakwitha, a Mohawk woman. Born in 1656 in what is now New York state, she belonged to...

Jun 6, 20218 min read

June 7 Antoni Gaudi and the Sagrada Familia

The great basilica of the Sagrada Familia is linked to one man, the genius, mystic and ascetic Antoni Gaudi. We look at the remarkable...

Jun 5, 20213 min read

June 6 John Polkinghorne - Science & Religion

Today we remember how in 1982 and travel to where the theoretical physicist John Polkinghorne was ordained an Anglican priest in...

Feb 14, 20211 min read

Feb 15 A Hermit from Lebanon brings faiths together

Today in 1875, a Maronite monk Charbel Makhlouf became a Hermit and entered the Hermitage of St Peter and St Paul on Mount Lebanon. It...

Feb 10, 20211 min read

Feb 11 First apparition in Lourdes

We travel to France, where today when a barely literate 14-year old girl, Bernadette Soubirous told her mother that a "lady" had spoken...

Jan 25, 20211 min read

Jan 8 Gauchito Gil - Argentina's folk saint

Today in 1878 saw the death of Antonio Mamerto Gil Núñez, popularly known as Gauchito Gill, who has become the most prominent folk hero...

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