St. Padre Pio is considered one of the great saints of the 20th century, and one of the Church’s greatest mystics. Stigmata, bi-location, soul-reading, demon-fighting, and other miraculous phenomenon have all been attributed to the Franciscan. Below is a fascinating documentary about the great saint. At just under an...
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It was in 1958 that Catholic author Flannery O’Connor took a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, where the young peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous experienced apparitions of the Virgin Mary a century before. Lourdes is internationally renowned as a healing shrine. Often it is bathing in the waters of Lourdes that...
Brian Fleming has an incredible testimony! After spending years addicted to heroin, losing most of his family, and almost dying himself, he decided to try praying the rosary. The rosary led him to Mass, which led him to Jesus – and his life hasn’t been he same. Let his life...
Sr. Maria Elizabeth Hesselblad, a Swedish nun who harbored Jews in her convent during WWII, was canonized a saint by Pope Francis on Sunday, June 5th. And what an incredible life she had! Hesselblad was born in 1870 to a Lutheran family as the 5th of 18 children in Sweden....
“Chewbacca Mom” is the latest viral-Internet celebrity – and she keeps getting cooler the more we know about her! Here’s the latest: Not only is she a devout Christian, has a beautiful singing voice, can play an instrument called the “banjitar” – but she has written her own worship songs! First...
