In the prison of Vitoria, Spain, a priest came to visit a prisoner and found him shivering with cold. It was winter and the poor man had only a thin shirt on. The priest took off his cassock, removed his

charge of the Prince's education, and by the children's nanny and her helper, both Frenchwomen... The priest in charge of the Grotto gave the group some short explanations. With the Minister's permission, and [...] Lourdes and pray for him, his family and his country. As the royal visitors were taking leave of the priest, the Minister told him, "The King will be very sensitive to the warm welcome you gave his children

Kolbe is arrested The Virgin presented two crowns Saint Maximilian Kolbe, a 20th-century Polish priest and martyr, was born into a modest and deeply religious family. As a child, he could be a bit naughty [...] first to Pawiak prison in Warsaw. Fr. Kolbe was violently beaten for being both a religious and a priest. He wrote to his Franciscan community in Niepokalanow, the Polish monastery he had founded: "The

human hands, but the prophecies announced in such a mysterious manner even more. They spoke of a priest who would be called "Lord", seated at the right hand of God: "Take your seat at my right hand, till [...] the womb, from the dawn of your youth. The Lord has sworn an oath He will never retract; you are a priest forever of the order of Melchizedek" (Ps 110:1-5). A true son of God: "I shall be a father to him

who all told her that her son was incurable. Once a young man, he had a great desire to become a priest, but his bad eyesight made it nearly impossible for him to study. In 1809, he felt the strong inspiration [...] glory of Our Lord, for her own honor and for the salvation of souls. He only thought about becoming a priest and to busy himself, by the exercise of sacerdotal zeal, to realize his triple vow. John Claude renewed

originated in the village of Porcaro in Brittany, France, and was idea of Fr. Louis Prévoteau, a Breton priest. Fr. Prévoteau, then 44, arrived in Porcaro in 1967. Four years later, he was given his first motorcycle [...] by the president of the local bikers club of Rennes (capital of Brittany), a long-time friend. The priest wanted to do something in return for his biker friends. He saw their need for the spiritual, their

pilgrimage of Benin From August 16-18, 2019, about seven thousand faithful, bishops and Catholic priests from Benin and neighboring countries made the traditional Marian pilgrimage to the grotto of Our [...] their worries, or their hopes, by letting their hearts speak." No less than six bishops and 150 priests concelebrated Mass with Bishop François Gnonhossou, Archbishop of Dassa-Zoumé. Cardinal Jean Zerbo

Surprised, they decided to build a small oratory for it. A hermit went to live there and later some priests joined him, to welcome the increasing number of pilgrims. In 1180, the bishop of Verdun appealed [...] of Mary Immaculate in 1972—in residence for 30 years—the site was put in the charge of diocesan priests, and, since 1995, a community of nuns from Alsace have taken up residence. “Benoîte-Vaux” is a place

Almaty diocese, in Kazakhstan were still without a priest. They began to build a church near Oziorno—a town whose name means “of the lake.” When a priest was sent there (he is the current bishop of Nurslutan

while in jail (in Vanier, Quebec), I heard from a friend, a priest in Poland, that there was the possibility of a visit to Vanier by a priest who was on pilgrimage with a replica of an icon of Our Lady