Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die (G.K. Chesterton)
Day: April 20, 2020
Wuhan and Worthwhile Martyrs
If you’d like to pray to two patron saints, interceding for mitigation of this pandemic and, more to the point, its deleterious effects, you might try Saint Francis-Regis Clet, CM, (1748-1820) and Saint Jean-Gabriel Perboyre, CM, (1802-1840), who were tortured and martyred for their Christian Faith just outside Wuhan nearly two centuries ago by an[…]