This month, it’s really the DVD rack instead! Last month, I finally found the DVD version of The Seventh Chamber, which is about St. Teresa Benedicta. I loved it on VHS. (Interesting fact: The lead actress also played Mary in The Passion of Christ.) I also scored a copy of Jesus of Nazareth, which I’ve never seen but… Continue reading On the Nightstand: April
Category: Saints
Blessed Olympia Bida: 2014 Daily Lenten Reflections
Blessed Olympia Bida was born in Ukraine in 1903 and died on January 28, 1952 in Russia. Her feast day is April 2. Olympia and another St. Joseph sister got into trouble for facilitating surreptitious religious services and catechization and were exiled to Siberia. She spent more than a year in a prison camp before dying… Continue reading Blessed Olympia Bida: 2014 Daily Lenten Reflections
Blessed Juana Maria Condesa Lluch: 2014 Daily Lenten Reflections
Blessed Juana Maria Condesa Lluch was born in Spain on March 30 in 1862, and died on January 16, 1916. Her family was very wealthy, but she knew from the time she was young she wanted to serve the poor. When she was eighteen, Juana Maria went to her archbishop with the idea of founding… Continue reading Blessed Juana Maria Condesa Lluch: 2014 Daily Lenten Reflections
Blessed Maria Restituta: 2014 Daily Lenten Reflections
Blessed Maria Restituta was born May 1, 1894, in what is now the Czech Republic and died on this date in Vienna in 1943. She entered the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity community when she was twenty, taking the name Restituta after an early martyr, and served as a surgical nurse. Maria Restituta’s outspoken nature… Continue reading Blessed Maria Restituta: 2014 Daily Lenten Reflections