Saint Brigid of Ireland, born around 452, was the Abbess of Ireland's first convent and co-patroness, known for her deep spirituality and compassion. Saint John Bosco uCatholic-January 31, 2025 Saint John Bosco (1815-1888), founder of the Salesians, devoted his life to aiding poor, abandon...
Vincent de Paul, who lived in the convent of St-Lazare within the confines of the parish. Here was buried Venerable Madame Le Gras, foundress of the Sisters of Charity. During the Revolution it was given to the Theophilanthropists who made of it the “Temple of Hymen and Fidelity”. With...
On October 5, 1938, a young religious by the name of Sister Faustina (Helen Kowalska) died in a convent of the Congregation of Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy in Cracow, Poland. She came from a very poor family that had struggled hard on their little farm during the terrible years of Wor...
But I'd need to be careful. Those guys play for high stakes. I'd be afraid of running a losing streak and ending up writing out huge IOUs.When I was a child my parents threatened to send me to a convent. I've often wondered how that would have worked out. I'd have made a ...
Most Powerful Traditional Catholic Novena Prayers: A Novena is a nine days’ private or public devotion in the Catholic Church to obtain special graces.
The Zurich Fragment (Public Library, Zurich).—This is a tenth-century leaf containing part of an office for the profession of a nun. It is written in an Irish hand. The fragment is printed in Warren’s “Celtic Church“. The Liber Hymnorum.—This is not exactly a liturgical book, ...
After the meeting one of the sons took me in the back room to explain Jesus to me. I thought to myself, "What is this guy going to tell me what I don't already know? After all, I've been in the convent, and there is nothing new he is going to tell me." But he started ta...
From there, the film lives up to its early promises. Mohan drapes its central, centuries-old countryside Italian convent in countless red flags, whether it be the distant sobs of its worshippers’ fanatical prayers, the comically loud creaks of its doors and floorboards, or an elderly nun who...
her piety, but as she grew into her teenage years, she became more interested in worldly pleasures. This shift in her demeanor remained unaltered despite a near-death experience at 17 and her education at the Convent of St. Bernardine in Viterbo, where her older sister had become a nun. ...
While in Rome, Denhof frequently visited the convent church of the Trinitarians, and this order pleased him so much that he decided to introduce it into Poland. He succeeded in doing this in April, 1685. The Trinitarians were installed at Lemberg, because this city, being near the Turkish...