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Caterina Volpicelli
Caterina Volpicelli was born on January 21, 1839 in Naples to Peter and Teresa de Micheroux. As a member of the upper middle class, she received a solid humanistic and religious education, and Volpicelli had a love of the arts. She was very involved in society life, and was trying to out do her older sister, when she had an epiphany. She felt a calling for the religious life. One of her advisers from school, Blessed Ludovico da Casoria, helped her understand that she was called to live the evangelical counsels “remaining in the midst of society.” On da Casoria’s advice she joined the Third Order of the Franciscans in…
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ST COLUMBA AND THE LOCH NESS MONSTER
Columba was newly converted to Christianity when he was partly responsible for the Battle of Culdrebene. Thousands of people lost their lives so he sailed to Britain repentant and founded a monastery at Iona. He travelled all across northern Britain spreading Christianity. His life as a saint was documented by adamnan where he gives what is possibly the first ever recorded sighting of The Loch Ness Monster.This is his account; Whilst travelling across Scotland Columba had to cross Loch Ness. While waiting to cross he came upon some locals who were carrying a man who had been bitten by a water monster. His body had been pulled from the lake…
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Margaret Pole
On May 28th 1541 Lady Margaret Pole Countess of Salisbury was taken from the Tower, where she had been held without trial and executed on the orders of Henry VIII. Her beheading was a botch job, carried out by a novice headsman and taking eleven blows, not helped by the fact that Margaret allegedly didn’t go quietly, refusing to put her head meekly on the block! Her crime? She had the wrong blood flowing through her veins, her Uncles were Richard III and Edward IV, and her father George Duke of Clarence, so her mere existence fed Henry VIII’s paranoia regarding his father’s tenuous claim to the throne. She followed…
