Some say it’s time to discern sainthood for U.S. women slain 40 years ago in El Salvador cruxnow.com
The women arrived in the tiny country on the brink of war, each with a different experience formed in Catholic circles in various parts of the U.S.: Queens and Brooklyn in New York, Connecticut and Ohio.
The Ursuline and the Maryknoll women religious came largely from working-class families and the lay missionary from the wealthy community of Westport in Connecticut
Though they only interacted with one another for a few short months, the single faith that united them led them to feed, clothe and provide refuge for hundreds battered not just by war but also hunger in El Salvador….
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- Pope St. Martin IPope St. Martin I Feast date: Apr 13 Catholics celebrate the memory of Pope St. Martin I on April 13. The saint suffered exile and humiliation for his defense of orthodoxy in a dispute over the relationship between Christ's human and divine natures.Martin was born in the Italian city of Tuscany, during either the late […]
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