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This Man viewed Religion with Contempt—This Woman was arrested as a Revolutionary
Together they Founded a Religious Order that would spread around the World By Larry Peterson On December 6, 1752, Florence Chasseloup presented her husband, Pierre Fournet, with their only son who they named Andre-Hubert. Andre had one sister. The infant Andre was baptized the very next day by his uncle, Father Antoine Fournet, in the… Read more
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This great preacher initiated the Dogma of the Immaculate Conception and is known as the Saint of the Stations of the Cross
By Larry Peterson Domenico Casanova was a ship captain, and he and his wife, Anna Maria Benza, lived in Port Maurice, a seaport near Genoa. On December 20, 1676, Anna gave birth to a son, and they named him Paul Jerome Casanova. Paul’s father was a devout Catholic and took the responsibility of teaching his… Read more
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He will become the Third Saint from the Philippines: Meet Servant of God; Archbishop Teofilo Camomot
By Larry Peterson Teofilo (the name means “Lover of God”) Camomot was born on March 3, 1914, in Talisay, Cebu, which is located in the center of the Philippines. He was the third child of Luis Camomot and Angela Bastida, who would eventually have eight children together. Teofilo was baptized the day after his birth… Read more
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Loneliness and Thanksgiving: Thoughts from a Catholic man
God is the Answer because without Him there is no Hope By Larry Peterson “Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” St. Teresa of Calcutta This will be the third Thanksgiving since my wife passed away, and when you become widowed, there is an inescapable loneliness factor that enters your… Read more
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This Saint was Hanged for the Crime of ‘Harboring a Priest’—Her final words were, “I would have harbored a thousand priests.”
By Larry Peterson Anne Heigham was born in England in 1563 during the early years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Her parents were wealthy Calvinists, and Anne was the eldest daughter of William Heigham, who was the son of Roger Heigham, a protestant reformer who worked for King Henry VIII. When Anne and… Read more
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John F. Kennedy, a Kid from the Bronx and a Moment in Time
The following was written on the 5oth anniversary of JFK’s death; November 22, 1963. It is a true story. By Larry Peterson “The president is dead.” For those of us who can remember those words from more than 50 years ago, they were seared into our brains like letters sand-blasted into a granite headstone forever:… Read more
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