St Christina the Astonishing (July 24) had been taken for dead but sat up in her coffin in the middle of a Requiem Mass
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Daily readings: July 24 – 30
Friday, 22 July 2011
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The Roman aristocrat who went from riches to rags
Friday, 15 July 2011
St Arsenius (July 19) became one of the leading Desert Fathers
Daily readings: July 17 – 23
Friday, 15 July 2011
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The Sister who saw in a vision her own heart made of steel
Friday, 8 July 2011
St Veronica Giuliani (July 9) received well-attested imprints of the stigmata
Daily readings: July 10 – 16
Friday, 8 July 2011
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The girl who was murdered at the age of 11
Thursday, 30 June 2011
St Maria Goretti (July 6) died while resisting a rape. Her murderer later repented and had a vision of the Virgin Mary
Daily readings: July 3 – 9
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
The 17th-century martyr whose corpse was found in the 1920s
Friday, 24 June 2011
St John Southworth (June 28) was arrested five times before he was eventually hanged
Daily readings: June 26 – July 2
Friday, 24 June 2011
Scripture readings in the Ordinary and Extraordinary Forms
It is now time to undo the injustice bishops are doing to too many priests, falsely accused of child abuse and now vindicated, but still torn from their priesthood
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