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Sunday, August 16, 2015

A Fifteenth Anniversary: St. Thomas More as Patron of Politicians

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Edited by Travis Curtright, Director of Humanities and Liberal Studies and Associate Professor of Humanities and Literature at Ave Maria U...
Friday, August 14, 2015

Book Review: A Trio of Works by St. Thomas More

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Scepter Publishers combines three works by Thomas More in this volume (which I purchased for my study of More's works). From the publi...
Thursday, August 13, 2015

August Martyrs: Blessed William Freeman

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I've written before about how St. Edmund Campion's trial and passion influenced both St. Henry Walpole and St. Philip Howard--and ho...

An Elizabethan Heroine: Lady Cecily Stonor

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Author Gareth Russell asked me to contribute an article on one of my heroes or heroines. On his  blog , he offers an introduction to my se...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

The Throckmortons: Catholic Recusants (and one exception)

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Author Nancy Bilyeau writes about the Throckmorton family and conspiracies against Elizabeth I and James I on her blog : This was not t...
Tuesday, August 11, 2015

August Martyrs: Blessed John Sandys

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Father John Sandys, who had studied at Oriel in Oxford, served as a tutor (and thus had taken the required oaths and conformed to the Anglic...
Monday, August 10, 2015

The Wilton Diptych and "Popular Medieval Piety"

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The Catholic Herald (UK) features an introduction to the week ahead in the UK version of the Magnificat monthly prayer magazine. Leonie ...
Sunday, August 9, 2015

August Martyrs: Blessed Richard Bere

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Today's August martyr is the Carthusian, Blessed Richard Bere, who also has a connection with Glastonbury Abbey, where Blessed Richar...
Saturday, August 8, 2015

Happy Feast of St. Dominic

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Today is the feast of St. Dominic, who along with St. Francis of Assisi was the great mendicant founder of the Medieval era. Next year, hi...

August Martyrs: The Blesseds Felton, Father and Son

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Today's saint is not to be confused with the John Felton who assassinated the Duke of Buckingham during the reign of King James I. B...