A witness to the power of prayer Brockton girl is present as patron is made saintDesmond O'Grady, Globe Correspondent
Ignatius had one of the decisive experiences of his life. He related to his companions that on a certain day, while in prayer, he seemed to seeChristwith the cross on his shoulder and beside him the Eternal Father, who said, “I wish you to take this man for your servant,” and Jesu...
of the saint, candles,rosaries,vesselsfor coins and other tokens, and prayer requests written on slips of paper. Other traditions include matchmaking (which typically involves giving abasilplant that contains a love message to the person of one’s affection), a televised wedding ceremony of ...
Gentile against the emperorFrederick IIinApuliain late 1205. On his journey, however, he had a vision or dream that bade him return to Assisi and await the call to a new kind ofknighthood. On his return, he dedicated himself to solitude andprayerso that he might know God’s will for ...
Francis Xavier at Sault Saint Louis (which had been established by French Jesuits in 1680), near Montreal. There she came to be known as the “Lily of the Mohawks” in recognition of her kindness, prayer, faith, and heroic suffering. Accounts of Tekakwitha’s life written by de Lamber...
From late antiquity through the Middle Ages, Christians used prayer to contemplate both God’s omnipresence in the world and God in his essence. The soul’s ecstasy, or rapture, in contemplation of God was termed a “spiritual marriage” by St. Bernard of Clairvaux, the greatest mystical auth...
His response to temptation was incessant prayer and fasting. He learned Hebrew from a Jewish convert, studied Greek, had manuscripts copied for his library and his friends, and carried on a brisk correspondence. The crisis arrived when Chalcis became involved with ecclesiastical and theological ...