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      Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols

      Signs and Mysteries: Revealing Ancient Christian Symbols by Mike Aquilina illustrated by Lea Marie Ravotti Our Sunday Visitor, 2008 ISBN 978-1-59276-450-1 More devotional than academic, this book begins by...

      Musica Vaticana

      Musica Vaticana Featuring Christopher Jackson (Artistic Director) ATMA Classique, 2011 The Cappella Giulia is the name of St. Peter’s choir in Rome, founded in 1513 by Julius...

      Women in combat

      Have you noticed there are an alarming number of combative females on television? I am not talking about women who are angry at everything...

      Andre Campra: Messa da Requiem

      Andre Campra: Messa da Requiem Featuring Philippe Herreweghe (Conductor) Harmoia Mundi, 1992 Campra wrote this masterpiece around 1699, before he abandoned his duties as maître de musique...

      Mud

      Most of my family is only at our “home” during the Christmas holidays. Because our time there is short, generally spanning between American Thanksgiving...

      Celebration of the World Day of Peace (1 January 2014)

      Paul VI stated that not only individuals but nations too must encounter one another in a spirit of fraternity. As he says: “In this...

      Wanderings

      from Wanderings in South America, the North-West of the United States, and the Antilles, in the years 1812, 1810, 1820, and 1824. With Original...

      RoboCops

      The 1987 movie RoboCop has become a household classic over the last 27 years and even if you have not seen it, chances are you have...

      The Miraculous Medal: Origin, History, Circulation, Results

      Extracts of letters written by Sisters of Charity during the War of Secession, from 1861 to 1865: “Military Hospital (House of Refuge), St. Louis,...

      King Henry V and the Hermit of Dreux

      First published in The Morning Post, 24 September 1798; afterward in The Anthology, 1799. based on the following history: “While Henry V lay at...