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by bcadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured, Film, Lives of Saints, Modern Saints, News, Orthodox Christians | 0 |
The present situation in the world between Russia and Ukraine has brought to our attention many different saints that the western Church, that is, Roman Catholics, would have little familiarity. They could be saints associated with the Eastern Churches in communion with Rome like the Ukrainian Catholic Church or it could be saints associated with […]
by bcadmin | May 10, 2021 | forgiveness, Melanie Rigney, Modern Saints, News, Spirituality | 0 |
by Melanie Rigney If you had encountered this Capuchin friar, you might have given him a second glance because of his stature —and then moved on. Other than being just 4 feet, 6 inches tall, there wasn’t much that was noteworthy about Leopold. He had a…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 10, 2020 | Faith, Melanie Rigney, Modern Saints, Mother Maravillas, News, Saint | 0 |
by Melanie Rigney It was a long name for an infant: Maria de las Maravillas Pidal Chico de Guzman. But her mother had a special devotion to Nuestra Señora de las Maravillas (Our Lady of Wonders, or Marvels) … and there was, of course, that family…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 20, 2020 | Art, Featured, Genevieve, Gracie Morbitzer, Modern Saints, News, painting, Saints, U.S. & World News | 0 |
A young artist is giving a fresh face to some of the Catholic faith’s most beloved saints, using college roommates for models and painting on thrift shop wood.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Sep 30, 2020 | Anna Schaeffer, Faith, Melanie Rigney, Modern Saints, News, Prayer, Spirituality | 0 |
by Melanie Rigney Nothing had ever come easy, but Anna Schaeffer was working hard to achieve what she believed was her God-given vocation: life as a missionary. She was the third of six children, born in the small Bavarian town of Mindelstetten, and he…
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 3, 2020 | Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul, Drexel University, Modern Saints, News, Saint Katharine Drexel Shrine, Spirituality, St. Katharine Drexel, Xavier University of Louisiana | 0 |
Katharine Drexel knew what money could do. From the time she was very young, she and her two sisters had helped her beloved stepmother Emma minister to Philadelphia’s needy, opening the family’s home three times a week to people who needed money, cloth…
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