Feb 22, 2022
St. Theodore of Tarsus, Archbishop of Canterbury and St. Egwin, Bishop of Worchester lived during the times when the Church in England was unified.
The Virgin Mary appeared to St Egwin in Evesham. St Egwin then built the Evesham Abbey, the 3rd great monastery of England.
Henry VIII had it destroyed in the 1600's. The...
Feb 15, 2022
St. Mary Mazzarello and the Daughters of Mary Help of Christians, aka Salesian Sisters.
St Mary Mazzarello had a vision of a big building filled with orphaned girls. She remembered this vision when St Bosco of the Salesians asked her to create the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians to take care of abandoned young...
Feb 8, 2022
St John Bosco, aka Don Bosco’s mission was to fulfill the Virgin Mary’s request: Help orphans from the slums of Turin in the mid-1800’s.
Today the society he created, The Society of St Francis de Sales or the Salesians of Don Bosco can be found in over 125 countries around the world.
There are links, photos and...
Feb 1, 2022
While overseas last fall, I literally “stumbled” on the “Marian Column” in Old Town Prague.
The story of the Marian Column of Prague is obscure. It had been hidden behind the Iron Curtain for too long. The original built in 1650 stood for 300 years before being destroyed in 1918.
There are links, photos and...