Wednesday, January 29, 2020

“True and Living Friendship Can Not Thrive Amid Sin” ~ Saint Francis de Sales and the crisis of post-Christian friendship

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Click here to share on Facebook. A lamentable feature of modern post-Christian life in the West is the inability of many people to form ...
Monday, January 27, 2020

"The Actual Remains of the Great Doctor Were Conveyed to the Imperial City" ~ January 27, Feast of the Translation of Relics of Saint John Chrysostom

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The translation of the relics of Saint John Chyrsostom to the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople, taken from the 11th century ...
Thursday, January 23, 2020

"Never was the encouragement of the gods more sure..." ~ The elevation of Honorius as Co-Augustus, January 23, AD 393

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Image of Honorius from the consular diptych of Anicius Petronius Probus, AD 406. January 23 is the anniversary of the elevation of Honor...
Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Saint Maurus Walks on Water ~ As told by Pope Saint Gregory the Great

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Saint Maurus rescues Saint Placidus by Bartolomeo di Giovanni, ca. AD 1485. In about AD 530, when Italy was ruled by the unstable succes...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Pope Vigilius Celebrates Christmas by Jumping from a Window to Escape Justinian's Henchmen ~ December 23, AD 551

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Scene from the life of Joseph the Patriarch as taken from the mid-6th century throne of Maximian, bishop of Ravenna. The late-Roman garb ...
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Wednesday, December 18, 2019

Wishing you a Happy Coup Day

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Click here to share on FaceBook. At this festive time of year, when the Generic Winter Holiday spirit is swelling, and non-cisgendered, ...
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Wednesday, December 11, 2019

"He will make me, Damasus, arise from my ashes" ~ The epitaphs of Pope Saint Damasus

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Pope Saint Damasus I in the Catacombs, taken from Shea's Pictorial Lives of the Saints.  “He who stilled the raging waves of the se...
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Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Resolution to Impeach the President

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Presenting the actual articles of impeachment to be considered against Mr. Trump by Mr. Nadler's kangaroo court...
Saturday, December 07, 2019

Veni, redemptor gentium! The feast day of Saint Ambrose of Milan ~ December 7

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Saint Ambrose absolving Theodosius the Great by French artist Pierre Subleyras, ca. 1745. December 7 is the feast day of Saint Ambrose...
Tuesday, December 03, 2019

Saint Francis Xavier, Destroyer of Pagan Idols

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Saint Francis Xavier Healing and Preaching. An oil painting similar to one by Peter Paul Rubens, early 17th century.  On this feast day...
Friday, November 22, 2019

"I myself saw her incorrupt" ~ November 22, feast of St. Cecilia

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Detail of Stefano Maderno's Saint Cecilia from AD 1600 — a year after the sculptor had seen the saint's incorrupt remains. Nove...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019

The Nine Greatest Rulers of the Christian Roman Empire

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Click here to share on Facebook. The 4th through 7th centuries are often considered periods of decay and decline for the Roman Empire. I...
Tuesday, November 12, 2019

"Dread Gehenna, and hold fast to Christ" ~ November 13, feast of Sts. Arcadius, Paschasius, Probus and Eutychianus

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Funerary mosaic of Natalica, a Christian girl of 10, from 5th century Roman or Vandal north Africa. November 13 is the feast day of Sai...
Monday, November 11, 2019

"To banish war, he must a warrior be" ~ Remembering Sgt. Joyce Kilmer on Veteran's Day

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Click here to share on Facebook. In honor of Veteran's Day, let us remember a soul so brave and so brilliant whose brief life-course...