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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 07

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 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 07  Bl. Alexander Rawlins, 1595 A.D. Martyr, missionary, and companion in death with Henry Walpole. Alexander was born in Worcestershire, England, where he was jailed twice for his fervent Catholicism. In 1589 he went to the English seminary in Reims and was ordained there in 1590. Returning to England the following year, Alexander was arrested. He was condemned to death and on April 7, 1595, and along with Henry Walpole was hanged, drawn, and quartered in York, England. He was beatified in 1929.   Bl. Edward Oldcorne, 1606 A.D. English martyr allegedly involved in the Gunpowder Plot. He was born in York, England, and ordained in Rome. In 1587, he became a Jesuit. Returning to England, Edward worked in the Midlands from 1588 to 1606. He was then condemned to death at Worcester for alleged implicitly in the Gunpowder Plot He was beatified in 1929.   St. Henry Walpole, 1558-1595 A.D. Jesuit and one of the Forty Martyrs of England ...

St William of Aebelholt

  St William of Aebelholt https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/102

Gospel in Art: Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone

  Gospel in Art: Let him who is without sin be the first to throw a stone https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52094

SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 06

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 SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 06  St. Sixtus I, Roman Catholic Pope and Martyr, during the reign of Hadrian c. 115-c. 125. ST. PETER OF VERONA, DOMINICAN AND MARTYR Born to Manichean parents, he entered the Dominican Order despite his family's opposition. He was a strenuous defender of the Catholic doctrine, so much so that he was appointed Inquisitor General for Lombardy. He died a martyr in 1252, killed by those same heretics he had opposed.   St William of Aebelholt https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/102 St. William of Eskilsoe, Roman Catholic Missionary. Born at Saint-Germain, France, circa 1125, he served as a canon at the church of St. Genevieve, Paris, under the great Abbot Suger until about 1170, when he was sent to Denmark with the mission of reforming the canons at Eskilsoe at the request of the bishop of Roskilde. He became abbot there and, during his three decades among the Danes, he also reformed many other communities. He also founded the abbey of St....

The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom to the rise of Islam by H. Belloc

 The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom to the rise of Islam by H. Belloc The Holy Catholic Church and Christian Culture, From The Foundation of Christendom by H. Belloc, We must begin by laying down as a historical fact not to be removed by affection one way or the other, that the conversion of the Roman Empire was a conversion to what was called by all our ancestry and what is still called by those with any historical sense The Catholic Church. The Empire was not ‘converted’ to what modern men mean when they used the word ‘Christianity’.   The phrase is continually used and as continually corrupts the historical judgement of those who use it and those who hear it. In the ears of modern youth, especially in societies which have lost the Catholic Culture, the word ‘Christianity’ means vaguely, “That which is common in various sects, opinions and moods inherited in diluted form from the Reformation”.   In Eng...

Gospel in Art: No prophet arises from Galilee

  Gospel in Art: No prophet arises from Galilee https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/52090

St Vincent Ferrer

  St Vincent Ferrer https://www.indcatholicnews.com/saint/101