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Seton Shrine's title: The National Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton
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We tend to hear about Maximilian Kolbe’s life in reverse order. First, we hear that he offered his life for another prisoner in a concentration camp. Then, we hear of his mission to reach all of Poland with his Marian spirituality through the Militia Immaculata. Last, we hear the childhood story of Mary offering him two crowns: Purity and martyrdom.
Ironically, that’s ...
Blessed Michael McGivney (1852-1890) and St. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) were certainly the saints the world needed in their times. The founder of the Knights of Columbus gave American Catholics a profound experience of fraternity and Elizabeth Ann Seton brought her motherly virtues to children, the poor and the sick.
But the 21st century might have an even greater...
What will the coming years bring?
Every since Covid, it seems that our world is shifting and unstable. More and more, I find myself turning to the saints. Their lives have become my daily comfort, their words my go-to reading, as the news of our times has become more and more disturbing.
When I feel utterly lost, the saints center me and convict me. They witness...
St. Clare is one of those female saints whose life is inextricably linked to a famous male saint: Francis of Assisi. If we want to understand Clare and her journey of sanctity, we must first understand Francis, for he was the catalyst of her remarkable vocation.
Perhaps of all the saints in history, Francis is the least threatening to the contemporary world. Many view ...
We should all know the life of Edith Stein, a martyr of our age.
Also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross—one of six co-patron saints of Europe—Edith was born in 1891 in Breslau, Germany (modern-day Wroclaw, Poland). The youngest of eleven children, she was raised by her mother after her father’s untimely death. At fourteen she “consciously stopped praying” and ...