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Help of Christians, pray for us!

#help of christians #our lady help of christians #Auxilium Christianorum

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The Virgin of Candlemas at Copacabana 

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The Virgin of Candlemas, Patroness of the Canary Islands

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Bl. Denis of the Nativity, Martyr of the Order of Carmel - 29 November

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Omnis enim, quicúmque invocáverit nomen Dómini, salvus erit. Quómodo ergo invocábunt, in quem non credidérunt? Aut quómodo credent ei, quem non audiérunt? Quómodo autem áudient sine prædicánte? Quómodo vero prædicábunt, nisi mittántur? sicut scriptum est: «Quam speciósi pedes evangelizántium pacem, evangelizántium bona!» For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved. How then shall they call on him, in whom they have not believed? Or how shall they believe him, of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear, without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they be sent, as it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, of them that bring glad tidings of good things!” - Rom. X, 13-15

#missionaries #paris foreign missions #missions #world missions #propagation of the faith #Propaganda Fide

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Sta. Teresa de Jesús, Andrés López, Templo del Carmen, Cdad. de México, CDMX.

#saint theresa of avila #saint teresa of avila #saint teresa of jesus

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Virgo potens, sicut turris David: mille clípei pendent ex ea, omnis armatúra fórtium. A virgin most mighty, like the tower of David, whereon there hung a thousand bucklers, all the shields of valiant men.

#Islam #our lady of the rosary #tower of David #turris davidica #holy rosary

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Míchaël Archángele, veni in adjutórium pópulo Dei! O Archangel Michael, come to help God's people!

#Saint Michael #Saint Michael the archangel #asian #chinese

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An old photo from the 1930's of the Abbot-Bishop Bonifatius Sauer, OSB, Vicar Apostolic of Woksan, ordaining a priest in the traditional rite in the Abbey of Tokwon. The Tokwon Abbey was a Benedictine monastery in Woksan, what is now North Korea. The monks, originally from Germany, branched from a monastery in Seoul and were devoted to missionary works. They built a minor & major seminary for the formation of new native priests. The abbey became the center of Catholic life in the region and the abbot was consecrated a bishop. There were about 60 monks and 20 religious sisters at a separate convent nearby. Sadly, the monastery fell under Soviet control at the end of the Second World War, followed by the communist regime of North Korea under Kim Il-Sung's leadership. The monks were captured and many of them were either executed or died under extreme living conditions like starvation and forced labour. Bishop Sauer died on February 1, 1950, in a communist concentration camp in Pyongyang. His cause for beatification, together with 35 others, was opened in 2007.

#Korea #asia #communism

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Maps of the Missions of Indochina

#vietnam #vietnamese martyrs #asia

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Un léger coup de sabre séparera ma tête, comme une fleur printanière que le maître du jardin cueille pour son plaisir. Nous sommes tous des fleurs plantées sur cette terre que Dieu cueille en son temps, un peu plus tôt, un peu plus tard.

- Saint Théophane Venard   

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Holy Martyrs of the Paris Foreign Missions

SAINT LAURENT IMBERT

Mgr Laurent Imbert, Joseph-Marius, bishop of Capse, martyr in Korea, was born on March 23, 1796, in the farm of Bricart, in Marignane (Bouches-de-Rhône)…

SAINT JACQUES CHASTAN

CHASTAN, Jacques-Honoré (Le Ve), martyr in Korea, was born in Marcoux (Basses-Alpes) on October 7, 1803. He began his studies at Brusquet, continued in the preparatory seminary in Embrun, and finished at the seminary in Digne.

SAINT PIERRE DUMOULIN-BORIE

‘I must warn you that I will follow my vocation wherever it calls me, even to the foreign missions.’ This is what Pierre Dumoulin-Borie, born on February 20, 1808, at Beynat, in the Department of Corrèze, declared to his parents when he informed them of his intention to join Sacred Orders.

SAINT FRANÇOIS JACCARD

François Jaccard was born on September 6, 1799, at Onion, in Haute-Savoie. His parents had him, their first child, after twenty years of marriage, and saw in his birth, a “sign of the Lord”; this child would probably become a priest.

SAINT JEAN-CHARLES CORNAY

‘Allow me to go to Paris, I will stay there for at least three years and I will have all the facilities there to test my vocation, and all the means to prepare for it if it is true.’ That was how Jean-Charles Cornay, born on February 27, 1809, at Loudon (Vienne), tried to convince his mother to let him follow the Lord’s call to the Paris Foreign Missions.

SAINT JOSEPH MARCHAND

According to his colleagues, he was ‘reserved without hiding it, serious without constraint, simple and joyful without exaggeration’. His reserve, however, made him conceal a secret that he shared with only one confidant: his younger brother Jean-Baptiste who also wanted to become a priest.

SAINT FRANÇOIS-ISIDORE GAGELIN

François-Isidore Gagelin was born on May 10, 1799, at Monperreux, in Doubs. He was baptised, discreetly, by a rebel priest, on July 14. His father died when he was two years old, and his two elder sisters took care of him. At the age of five he announced his desire to become a priest.

SAINT AUGUSTIN SCHOEFFLER

‘Christians do not dethrone kings, even during times of persecution. You will learn about their loyalty when you reign one day.’

SAINT JEAN-LOUIS BONNARD

Jean-Louis Bonnard was born on March 1, 1824 and was baptised the same day in Saint-Christôt-en-Jarez church, in the Loire valley.

SAINT THÉOPHANE VENARD

Saint Therese of Lisieux’s favourite martyr, Jean-Théophane Vénard, died at the beginning of 1861, aged 31.

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