November 2020
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Maria Luisa Josefa; a role model of holiness in the single, married, widowed, and religious life
By Larry Peterson She was born on June 21, 1866, in Jalisco, Mexico. Her full name was Maria Luisa de la Pena y Navarro. As the years passed, it would shorten and become Maria Luisa Josefa. Maria was the third child born to her parents and the first to survive. The births of eleven more…
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She never left home yet became a Dominican and a Patroness of Catechists
By Larry Peterson Her simple life shows how holiness can shine brighter than special gifts or talents Magdalen Panattieri was born in the tiny town of Trino, Italy, in 1443. Her parents were pious and prayerful people, and their example helped set their daughter on a saintly course. While still a child, Magdalen made a…
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Unable to teach the “Undesirables” in India, this Bishop moved to Africa and died serving the poor during a Yellow-fever epidemic
By Larry Peterson His full name was Melchior de Marion Bresillac. He was born in a town called Castelnaudary, located in southern France, on December 2, 1813, and was the oldest of five children. Melchior’s father wanted his boy to pursue a military career. Melchior felt a special calling to the religious life and when…
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This “martyr for purity” was killed in 1982 in Brazil
By Larry Peterson The date has not been set for the beatification of Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos Isabel Cristina Mrad Campos was born in Brazil, in the ancient city of Barbacena, on July 29, 1962. A few weeks later, on the feast of the Virgin Mary’s Assumption, her parents had her baptized in the parish…
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