Let us bear our cross and leave it to God to determine the length and the weight – St. Rose Philippine Duchesne
Day: November 18, 2023
Blessed Karolina and Anna, Martyrs for Chastity
Today, particularly in Poland, we recall the virgin-martyr, called the ‘Polish Maria Goretti’, Karolina Kózka, killed during the First World War, defending her chastity against a Russian soldier. Providential that she shares the same last name as another Polish saint, Stanislaus Kostka, of whom we wrote a few days ago. John Grondelski has a moving[…]
Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne
November 18th is also the optional memorial of Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769 – 1852), a native of France, but who spent much of her life as a missionary in the American midwest, back when it was wild and wooly territory. She was from a noble family, whose fortunes somehow survived the persecutions of the[…]