Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Inspired by Truth, Enlightening Minds for the Church in Canada and Throughout the World
Today marks the 228th anniversary of the official beginning of the French Revolution, back in 1789 with the storming of the Bastille prison. Much ado is made of this ‘storming’, even though there were only seven inmates still there. The Marquis de Sade (from whom we derive the term ‘sadism’) had been imprisoned for his[…]
Saint Camillus de Lellis (1550-1614), former soldier, gambler, sinner, then revert, nurse, dedicated carer for the sick, and saint. Also a contemporary and a penitent of Saint Philip Neri. Today also marks the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison (1789) and the beginning of the French Revolution, which helped form modern France, for[…]
