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Gospel in Art: 'Woman, why are you weeping?'

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Saints for April 07

SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 07 PRAY FOR US 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

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Gospel in Art: Easter Monday

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Urbi et Orbi: Pope urges world leaders to lay down weapons - Vatican News

  Urbi et Orbi: Pope urges world leaders to lay down weapons - Vatican News https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-04/pope-leo-urbi-et-orbi-easter-2026-peace-weapons-war-dialogue.html
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SAINTS OF THE DAY FOR APRIL 06 PRAY FOR US "There is only one tragedy in this life, not to have been a saint."- Leon Bloy 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...