Let us make the very best use of the precious moments and do all in our power for His dear sake and for His greater honor and glory (Saint Marianne Cope, +1918)
Day: January 23, 2025
Saint Marianne Cope and Her Lepers
Saint Marianne Cope (+1918), whose memorial is on this January 23rd, was an American-born Sister of the Third Order of Saint Francis, who spent much of her apostolate working amongst the lepers in Hawaii. She was contemporaneous with Father Damien de Veuster (1840 – 1848), the ‘leper priest’, whom she tended on his deathbed. Born[…]
The Catholic Conqueror, Charles Martel
(As Europe confronts the problems of mass immigration, especially from Muslim nations, with yet another deadly stabbing by a ‘mentally disturbed’ Afghan asylum seeker, we could learn something from history. Here, Carl Sundell recounts the story of Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne, about whom we will post in a sequel.). The illegitimate son of[…]