Articles on this issue "martyrs"
The Church now has 802 new Saints, after the first canonization that Pope Francis presided over on Sunday in Saint Peter’s Square. They are the 800 martyrs of Otranto -- killed savagely by …
read moreHere is the fourth and final part of an interview withMarianna Popiełuszko, the mother ofBlessed Jerzy Popiełuszko. She was interviewed (in Polish) byWłodzimierz Redzioch. ZENIT has published …
read moreHere is the third part of an interview withMarianna Popiełuszko, the mother ofBlessed Jerzy Popiełuszko. She was interviewed (in Polish) byWłodzimierz Redzioch. ZENIT is publishing a …
read moreThis year again on Good Friday, the Colosseum was the magnificent framework of the Via Crucis, presided over by Pope Francis. But was the Flavius amphitheater a place of persecutions and …
read moreA representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe is proposing a remembrance day for modern martyrs, in tribute of the many Christians killed over the last decades in …
read moreAn Academy Award-winning director is planning a movie on Japanese Christians martyred in the 17th century. Martin Scorsese will film the movie in New Zealand and release it in 2010, according …
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read moreHere is a translation of the homily Benedict XVI delivered Sunday at the Basilica of St. Lawrence Outside the Walls, at the closing liturgy of the jubilee year convoked to commemorate the …
read moreA Vatican representative says that one does not become a martyr just by suffering torture and death, but by the reason for such suffering: Christ. Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, retired …
read moreHere is a Vatican translation of the homily Benedict XVI delivered April 7 at the Basilica of St. Bartholomew on Tiber Island in Rome. The visit marked the 40th anniversary of the foundation …
read moreThe Day of Prayer and Fasting for Missionary Martyrs, set aside to remember those who have died for the faith, will be celebrated Easter Monday. The initiative, which was started in Italy by …
read moreMartyrs achieve the victory of love over hatred, Benedict XVI said on the feast of the first martyr, St. Stephen. The Pope said this last Wednesday before praying the Angelus with those …
read moreJapanese bishops in Rome for their five-yearly visit to the Pope said they are already preparing for the beatification of 188 martyrs from Nagasaki next year, an event expected to be the …
read moreThis letter [A Martyr's Letter to His Girlfriend] truly inspired me! It is an incredible testimony to true love and how it is meant to lead us to God. This is the kind of love that I desire to …
read moreHere is a translation of a letter from Bartolomé Blanco Márquez, written to his girlfriend from prison the day before he was executed during religious persecution in 1930s Spain. Márquez was …
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