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St. Ann and St. Joachim are two very interesting saints. We don’t really know anything about them except that they are the parents of Mary and therefore the grandparents of Jesus. I like to think about the fact that Jesus had grandparents. He really is one of us! He even has the beautiful blessing called
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St. James is one of the best-known apostles. He was called by Jesus and was one of the three apostles chosen to be present at important moments like the Transfiguration and the raising of Jairus’s daughter. Yet even with all of these gifts, the things we learn about St. James aren’t exactly flattering. He and
July 13th is the feast day of the first American layman to be beatified. I love “Charlie”, as Carlos Manuel Rodriguez is affectionately known. And I am not alone. It seems like there is something about Charlie that just makes people love him. After he died in 1963, the hospital refused to take any payment
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Here is a Benedictine saint who appears in the Benedictine and Ignatius scramble. When I was young, I could have had a motto, “Play and Shirk.” I don’t think I knew the word shirk but it means get out of work and I did a lot of that. When I was considering who to choose
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Alphonsus was born in 1696. He gave himself fully to whatever he did despite trials and difficulties. He began practicing law at the age of 19 and, although he was considered a genius in this career, he gave it up to become a priest at the age of 30. Even though he struggled with extreme
When Jesus appeared to the Apostles after the Resurrection, St. Thomas wasn’t there. And when the other apostles told him about what they had seen, he wouldn’t believe it. He even said, “Unless I see the mark of the nails in his hands, and put my finger in the mark of the nails and my
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People You Might not have read about in the History Books Maria Gaetana Agnesi Do you have trouble with Math? Or are you good at it? Either way, you might enjoy hearing about Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Maria was born in the Italian city of Milan in 1718. She was very good at school. By the
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