Saint John Chrysostom in the Eastern Churches To save the very ones that justice can no longer save St John Chrysostom (born in Antioch, Turkey, ca. 345 – d. near Comana, today’s Romania) was Archbishop
innocence of a child. He became one of us to give us divine life. Father Joseph Bahati Bavurha Pastor of St-Loup Cammas (Haute-Garonne, France) jardinierdedieu.com
Dominicans? Perhaps it is because at the center of our theological tradition is a longing for simplicity. St Thomas Aquinas said that we cannot understand God because God is utterly simple - simple beyond all
therefore cannot be increased in themselves, but we can magnify Him in ourselves. "Every holy soul," said St Augustine, "can conceive the Eternal Word within himself by means of faith. He can engender God in [...] created in the image and likeness of God who have ever been, are now and ever will be in the whole world. St Paul assures us that the Eternal Father has given us all things in giving us His Divine Son, so there
century, much later than the Salus Populi Romani icon. A pilgrim was attacked by wild dogs on the way to St Peter’s and he cried out to an ancient painting of the Madonna and Child on a nearby tower. The dogs [...] the Roman people begged the priests and the pope to take the image from its shrine to the Church of St Ignatius in the middle of Rome. When the Allies liberated the city on June 4, 1944, Pope Pius XII declared
images of the Virgin Mary. According to Corpuz, the Nuestra Señora de Regla was highly venerated by St Augustine of Hippo, who had a little black image of Mary in his oratory. Augustine said that it was [...] sacred image was buried. The priest unearthed a huge rock that was actually the opening of a cave where St Augustine’s Lady of the Rule was hidden. It was inside a wooden crate with a perpetually burning lamp
Fr. Robert Sarah was on the eve of being arrested and executed. In 1979, he was ordained a bishop by St. John Paul II, who immediately appointed him Archbishop of Conakry (capital of Guinea). At the age [...] appointed him prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Like St. John Paul II, Cardinal Robert Sarah also has a special devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who occupies
The Rosary marked the conclusion of a worldwide prayer marathon that the pope launched on May 1 at St. Peter’s Basilica. On each day of the event, a different Catholic shrine around the world led the Rosary [...] throughout the world. The painting, by Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner, is located at the Church of St. Peter am Perlach in Augsburg, southern Germany. The image, completed in around 1700, shows Mary untying
John of Austria donated it upon his death in 1578 to the Brotherhood of the Galleys in the Church of St John Lateran Port of Santa María in Cádiz. In 1854 the statue was transferred to the Marine Guards
name of Dabra Metmaq, located close to Lake Bouroullos and north of Bilqas in the Eastern Delta, the 21st day of the Coptic month Bachnas (May 29th), when large crowd, coming from all Egypt, gathered in this