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Saints
The Holy Archangels and Spiritual Warfare
A blessed feast of the Archangels to all our readers! As Father Scott Murray's article on the Saint Michael prayer points out that this used to be the feast only of the great defender...
Nota in Brevis
Wenceslaus and Lorenzo, Incidental Martyrs
This is not the stuff of which martyrs are made - So purportedly said Thomas More, who loved all the good things of life, his home at Chelsea, filled with his family, his books,...
Editor's Corner
Saint Vincent de Paul and Giving our All
The life of Saint Vincent de Paul (1581 - 1660) - he always signed his name 'Depaul', perhaps so people would not think of him as noble - spans a fractious time in France, with...
Featured Highlights
The Indomitable Courage of the Canadian Martyrs
Today in Canada we celebrate the Canadian Martyrs, who are commemorated on October 19th in the rest of the world. They are fitting examples and intercessors for our times, unhinged as we are from...
Saints
Saints Cosmas and Damian
(Here in Canada, we celebrate these martyr saints today, commemorated in the universal Church tomorrow, on September 26th, which is when we here in this fair Dominion celebrate our glorious feast of the Canadian...
Articles
Blessed Emilie Tavernier-Gamelin and Walsingham
The Church in Canada venerates a number of Canadian saints and blesseds, almost all of them from Quebec, since the rest of Canada was officially and mostly Protestant, and the Church is not permitted...
Featured Highlights
Saint Andrew Kim-Taegon and the Martyrs of Korea
Today we commemorate the feast of the countless martyrs of Korea, led by the indomitable convert priest, Father Andrew Kim Taegon, who was eventually tortured and beheaded by the shores of the Han River...
Editor's Corner
Saint Januarius’ Blood
Saint Januarius was bishop of Benevuento, in the south-west of Italy, about whom a number of legends are told - that he survived unscathed being burnt in a furnace, that wild bears refused to...
