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Thursday 10 March 2016

St John Ogilvie A Reading about

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John Ogilvie _ March 10 1982
A Reading about St John Ogilvie
Adapted from Butlers Lives of the Saints (Thurston Edition, 1942) March, pp. 179-184.

John Ogilvie was born in 1579 near Keith in Banffshire. The Ogilvie family, like many Scottish families at that time, was partly Catholic and partly Presbyterian,
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but John's father, though not unfriendly to the old faith, brought his eldest son up
as a Calvinist, and as such sent him at the age of thirteen to be educated on the Continent. There John became interested in the religious controversies which were popular in France. The best Catholic and Calvinist protagonists took part in these disputations, which profoundly influenced the intellectual world. John Ogilvie became confused and uncertain, but he came to fasten on two texts of Scripture:
"God wills all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth," and, "Come to me all you who suffer and are burdened, and I will refresh you." He began to see that the Catholic Church embraced all kinds of people and in her alone could be found men and women of every class. These reflections and the testimony of the martyrs decided him. To belong to the Church of the martyrs he became a Catholic and was received at the Scots College in Louvain in 1596, at the age of seventeen.

He spent the next three years in various educational establishments. Six months of this period was spent with the Scottish Benedictines at Ratisbon, studying the arts. Then at the age of twenty he went to a Jesuit college; he later joined the Society of Jesus, was ordained priest and eventually found his way, after repeated requests, back to his native Scotland. He set to work trying to win back his fellow countrymen to the Catholic faith. Most of his work was concentrated around Edinburgh, Glasgow and Renfrewshire. But his time was short. His missionary efforts lasted for less than a year. It was when he was attempting to meet someone who claimed to be interested in becoming a Catholic that he was betrayed to archbishop Spottiswoode, a former Presbyterian minister and who was now one of the King's most capable lieutenants.

For five months John Ogilvie was subjected to continual harassment, humiliation, interrogation and torture. He bore all of this with equanimity, courage and even humour. His spirit could not be broken, and he was able to hold his own in the involved religious and political questions they put to him in an attempt to trap him. After his second trial John Ogilvie seems to have been treated more kindly. The heroism he had shown in prison had been reported far and wide throughout the country, and even his keepers, including the archbishop, hoped that he would recant and accept the royal supremacy. Soon, however, a questionnaire was presented to him which came from King James himself, dealing with the relations between Church and State. To these John Ogilvie could only return answers which practically sealed his fate. Although his treatment in prison grew more rigorous, he continued to write an account of his arrest and experiences in prison which he had begun earlier, and he managed to smuggle the sheets of paper to friends outside.

John Ogilvie was eventually sentenced to death for high treason. But even on the gallows he was offered his freedom and honours ifhe would renounce his religion. "For that, he said, "I am prepared to give even a hundred lives." On this day, therefore, the 10th of March, 1615, John Ogilvie was martyred for his faith. Cornelius a Lapide, the young professor who taught John Ogilvie in Louvain, wrote proudly in later years that Ogilvie had been his catechumen but became a martyr worthy to take his place with the martyrs of the early persecutions

Adapted from Butlers Lives of the Saints (Thurston Edition, 1942) March, pp. 179-184.



Wednesday 4 November 2015

SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO If a tiny spark of God’s love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.


SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO ARCHBISHOP, CARDINAL 1538-1584
Feast: November 4
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From a sermon given during the last synod he attended, by Saint Charles, bishop
(Acta Ecclesiae Mediolanensis 1599, 1177-1178)

Practice what you preach


I admit that we are all weak, but if we want help, the Lord God has given us the means to find it easily. One priest may wish to lead a good, holy life, as he knows he should. He may wish to be chaste and to reflect heavenly virtues in the way he lives. Yet he does not resolve to use suitable means, such as penance, prayer, the avoidance of evil discussions and harmful and dangerous friendships. Another priest complains that as soon as he comes into church to pray the office or to celebrate Mass, a thousand thoughts fill his mind and distract him from God. But what was he doing in the sacristy before he came out for the office or for Mass? How did he prepare? What means did he use to collect his thoughts and to remain recollected?

Would you like me to teach you how to grow from virtue to virtue and how, if you are already recollected at prayer, you can be even more attentive next time, and so give God more pleasing worship? Listen, and I will tell you. If a tiny spark of God’s love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out. Keep the stove tightly shut so that it will not lose its heat and grow cold. In other words, avoid distractions as well as you can. Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.

If teaching and preaching is your job, then study diligently and apply yourself to whatever is necessary for doing the job well. Be sure that you first preach by the way you live. If you do not, people will notice that you say one thing, but live otherwise, and your words will bring only cynical laughter and a derisive shake of the head.

Are you in charge of a parish? If so, do not neglect the parish of your own soul, do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself. You have to be mindful of your people without becoming forgetful of yourself.

My brothers, you must realize that for us churchmen nothing is more necessary than meditation. We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: I will pray, and then I will understand. When you administer the sacraments, meditate on what you are doing. When you celebrate Mass, reflect on the sacrifice you are offering. When you pray the office, think about the words you are saying and the Lord to whom you are speaking. When you take care of your people, meditate on how the Lord’s blood that has washed them clean so that all that you do becomes a work of love.

This is the way we can easily overcome the countless difficulties we have to face day after day, which, after all, are part of our work: in meditation we find the strength to bring Christ to birth in ourselves and in other men.

     
     
RESPONSORY
1 Timothy 6:11; 4:11, 12, 6


Seek after integrity and holiness, faith and love, patience and gentleness.
 These are the things you must command and teach;
be an example to all who believe.

If you give them this advice,
you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus.
 These are the things you must command and teach;
be an example to all who believe.

CONCLUDING PRAYER

Let us pray.

Father,
keep in your people the spirit
which filled Charles Borromeo.
Let your Church be continually renewed
and show the image of Christ to the world
by being conformed to his likeness,
who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit,
one God, for ever and ever.
 Amen.


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Among the great reformers of the troubled sixteenth century was Charles Borromeo, who, with St. Francis of Loyola, St. Philip Neri, and others, led the movement to combat the inroads of the Protestant Reformation. His father, Count Gilbert Borromeo, was a man of piety and ability, and his mother was a member of the famous Medici family of Milan, sister of Angelo de Medici, later to become Pope Pius IV. The second of two sons in a family of six children, Charles was born in the castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore, on October 2, 1538. He was so devout that at the age of twelve he received the tonsure. At this time his paternal uncle, Julius Caesar Borromeo, turned over to him the income from a rich Benedictine abbey, one of the ancient perquisites of this noble family. In spite of his youth, Charles had a sense of responsibility, and he made plain to his father that all revenues from the abbey beyond what was required to prepare him for a career in the Church belonged to the poor and could not be applied to secular use. To take such a scrupulous stand in a period of corruption and decadence was unusual, and most significant as an indication of Charles' integrity of character.

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The young man attended the University of Pavia, where he applied himself to the study of civil and canon law. Due to a slight impediment of speech, he was regarded as slow; yet his thoroughness and industry more than compensated for the handicap, and his strict behaviour made him a model for his fellow students, who, in this era of the Renaissance, were for the most part pleasure-loving and dissipated. Charles now accepted a sufficient income from the abbey to meet the expenses of the kind of household a young nobleman was expected to maintain. By the time he took his doctor's degree at twenty-two his parents were dead and his elder brother, Frederick, was head of the family. Charles had no sooner returned home than the news came that his uncle, Cardinal Angelo de Medici, had been elected Pope Pius IV. A few months later the new Pope sent for his nephew to come to Rome, and within a very short time Charles was the recipient of such a wealth of honors, offices, and powers that he became a leading figure at the papal court. He was appointed cardinal-deacon and administrator of the see of Milan, although he was not to take up his work there for many years; he was named legate of Bologna, Romagna, and the March of Ancona; protector of Portugal, the Low Countries, and the Catholic cantons of Switzerland; supervisor of the Franciscan and Carmelite Orders, and of the Knights of Malta, and administrator of the papal states. The Pope's confidence in him was not misplaced, for Charles displayed great energy, ability, and diplomacy in fulfilling these various duties. Methodical and diligent, he learned how to despatch business affairs with speed and efficiency.
Pope Francis at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary
   
Yet in spite of his heavy tasks, Charles found time for recreation in music and physical exercise. He had the many-sidedness which we associate with men of the Renaissance, and was deeply interested in the advancement of learning. He set up at the Vatican a literary academy of clergy and laymen, and some of the studies and talks growing out of it were published as <Noctes Vaticanae>, to which Charles himself was a contributor. It was the custom for one in his position to live in magnificent state, but splendid trappings meant nothing to him. He remained modest and humble in spirit, and wholly aloof from the worldly temptations of Rome.
     

Sunday 17 May 2015

Pope Francis canonises two Palestinian nuns

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Pope Francis canonises two Palestinian nuns days after state recognition

 
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The Pope has named two Palestinian nuns as saints during a Sunday ceremony in St Peter's Square.

The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas was among more than 2,000 pilgrims from the territories who attended.

The canonisation comes just four days after the Vatican formalised its de facto recognition of the State of Palestine.

It highlighted Pope Francis' long running drive to help the embattled Christian community in the Middle East

Sister Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas was the founder of the…
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  ROME — They were humble women, servants of God. And of their fellow men and women in the holy land.
On Sunday, in a canonization laden with significance both religious and political, Pope Francis declared Marie Alphonsine Ghattas and Mariam Baouardy the first two Palestinian saints of modern times.
Some 2,000 Palestinians gathered in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square to sing and pray and celebrate their saints. There, they heard the Pope pay tribute to the way in which the two new saints experienced the love of God.
‘Eternal love’
“Sister Mariam Baouardy experienced this in an outstanding way. Poor and uneducated, she was able to counsel others and provide theological explanations with extreme clarity, the fruit of her constant converse with the Holy Spirit. Her docility to the Spirit also made her a means of encounter and fellowship with the Muslim world,” the Pope said.
“So, too, Sister Marie Alphonsine Danil Ghattas came to understand clearly what it means to radiate the love of God … and to be a witness to meekness and unity. She shows us the importance of becoming responsible for one another, of living lives of service one to another,” he said.
‘A light in the tunnel’
In the Holy Land, Palestinians tried to express what the canonization meant to them.
“As Christians, this is a sign of hope, this is a light in the tunnel,” said Father Jamal Khader, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. “Especially now in the Middle East, with all the events, with all the violence. We are celebrating the lives of two saints who worked humbly for everyone and who proved to be true followers of Jesus Christ.”
The Vatican wants to be seen as part of the peace process in the Middle East, and Pope Francis has made that a priority. And Francis can be expected at some point to take similar action on the Israeli side.
As political as the canonizations may have been, they carried deep spiritual meaning, as well.
Visions of the Virgin
Ghattas was born in Jerusalem in the 1840s to a devout Christian family. She became a nun, dedicating herself to a life of quiet servitude.
In Bethlehem, she said she began to receive visions of the Virgin Mary telling her to start a new congregation for Arab girls, called Sisters of the Rosary.
Ghattas’ hard work and her profound devotion led to the founding of the Rosary Sisters Convent. It was Ghattas’ home, which she donated to the convent to spread education and culture to those in need.
“Sometimes God creates from these weak people something great,” said Sister Agatha, a member of the Rosary Sisters congregation in Jerusalem.
A throat slit, a miracle occurs
Baouardy was born in Ibillin, a small village in Galilee, also in the 1840s. She was the 13th child in her family, and the only one to survive past infancy.
Her parents died when she was 3 years old, and her uncle raised her.
In Alexandria, Egypt, one of her uncle’s servants told her to convert to Islam. When she refused, the servant slit her throat.
It was then that Baouardy’s miracle began.
“Mariam became a martyr, and she went to heaven,” said Sister Fireal of the Carmelite Monastery in Bethlehem. “She saw the crown of grace, saw her mother and father. But she heard a voice saying that your life is not yet over and you should return to Earth.”
According to Baouardy’s account, a young nun dressed in blue healed her, cared for her, and led her to the church. It was, she believed, the Virgin Mary.
Baouardy led a life of service to the poor and to the church.
‘The journey continues’
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the canonization of the two women affirmed his people’s “determination to build a sovereign, independent and free Palestine based on the principles of equal citizenship and the values of spirituality and sublime humanity.”
“Our Holy Land has become a bastion of virtue for the entire world, and we are grateful to His Holiness Pope Francis and the Catholic Church for their observance and interest of the seed of virtue that has grown in Palestine,” Abbas said. “Palestine is not a land of war; it is rather a land of sanctity and virtue, as God intended it to be.”
The conferring of sainthood on the two women held great meaning for ordinary Palestinian Christians, as well.
“It’s a message for the whole world that Palestinian Christians do exist in this land, and that Palestinian Christians have a heritage of more than 2,000 years,” said Nashat Filmon, the director of the Palestinian Bible Society.
“And the journey continues.”
     
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On Sunday, in a canonization laden with significance both religious and political, Pope Francis declared Marie Alphonsine Ghattas and Mariam Baouardy the first two Palestinian saints of modern times.
Some 2,000 Palestinians gathered in the Vatican’s St. Peter’s Square to sing and pray and celebrate their saints. There, they heard the Pope pay tribute to the way in which the two new saints experienced the love of God.
‘Eternal love’
“Sister Mariam Baouardy experienced this in an outstanding way. Poor and uneducated, she was able to counsel others and provide theological explanations with extreme clarity, the fruit of her constant converse with the Holy Spirit. Her docility to the Spirit also made her a means of encounter and fellowship with the Muslim world,” the Pope said.
“So, too, Sister Marie Alphonsine Danil Ghattas came to understand clearly what it means to radiate the love of God … and to be a witness to meekness and unity. She shows us the importance of becoming responsible for one another, of living lives of service one to another,” he said.
‘A light in the tunnel’
In the Holy Land, Palestinians tried to express what the canonization meant to them.
“As Christians, this is a sign of hope, this is a light in the tunnel,” said Father Jamal Khader, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem. “Especially now in the Middle East, with all the events, with all the violence. We are celebrating the lives of two saints who worked humbly for everyone and who proved to be true followers of Jesus Christ.”
The Vatican wants to be seen as part of the peace process in the Middle East, and Pope Francis has made that a priority. And Francis can be expected at some point to take similar action on the Israeli side.
As political as the canonizations may have been, they carried deep spiritual meaning, as well.
Visions of the Virgin
Ghattas was born in Jerusalem in the 1840s to a devout Christian family. She became a nun, dedicating herself to a life of quiet servitude.
In Bethlehem, she said she began to receive visions of the Virgin Mary telling her to start a new congregation for Arab girls, called Sisters of the Rosary.
Ghattas’ hard work and her profound devotion led to the founding of the Rosary Sisters Convent. It was Ghattas’ home, which she donated to the convent to spread education and culture to those in need.
“Sometimes God creates from these weak people something great,” said Sister Agatha, a member of the Rosary Sisters congregation in Jerusalem.
A throat slit, a miracle occurs
Baouardy was born in Ibillin, a small village in Galilee, also in the 1840s. She was the 13th child in her family, and the only one to survive past infancy.
Her parents died when she was 3 years old, and her uncle raised her.
In Alexandria, Egypt, one of her uncle’s servants told her to convert to Islam. When she refused, the servant slit her throat.
It was then that Baouardy’s miracle began.
“Mariam became a martyr, and she went to heaven,” said Sister Fireal of the Carmelite Monastery in Bethlehem. “She saw the crown of grace, saw her mother and father. But she heard a voice saying that your life is not yet over and you should return to Earth.”
According to Baouardy’s account, a young nun dressed in blue healed her, cared for her, and led her to the church. It was, she believed, the Virgin Mary.
Baouardy led a life of service to the poor and to the church.
‘The journey continues’
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the canonization of the two women affirmed his people’s “determination to build a sovereign, independent and free Palestine based on the principles of equal citizenship and the values of spirituality and sublime humanity.”
“Our Holy Land has become a bastion of virtue for the entire world, and we are grateful to His Holiness Pope Francis and the Catholic Church for their observance and interest of the seed of virtue that has grown in Palestine,” Abbas said. “Palestine is not a land of war; it is rather a land of sanctity and virtue, as God intended it to be.”
The conferring of sainthood on the two women held great meaning for ordinary Palestinian Christians, as well.
“It’s a message for the whole world that Palestinian Christians do exist in this land, and that Palestinian Christians have a heritage of more than 2,000 years,” said Nashat Filmon, the director of the Palestinian Bible Society.
“And the journey continues.”     and women in the holy land.
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Bl. Mariam Baouardy - Mary of Jesus Crucified - to be canonized on May 17 in Rome

Bl. Mariam Baouardy, the "Lily of Palestine" and foundress of the Carmel of Bethlehem will be canonized on May 17 in Rome
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(Vatican Radio) The Ordinary Public Consistory for the Creation of New Cardinals, which took place on Saturday, February 14th, 2015, in St Peter’s Basilica, saw also the approval of the canonisations of three Blessed of the Church: Jeanne Emilie de Villeneuve; Mary of Jesus Crucified Baouardy; Marie Alphonsine Danil Ghattas. The Holy Father also announced that the date of the canonisations is May 17, 2015 - the same day on which Bl. Maria Cristina of the Immaculate Conception, Foundress of of the Sisters, Expiatory Victims of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament, whose canonisation was approved October 20, 2014. Below, please find some brief biographical information on the three soon-to-be canonised saints approved on Sunday.
  1. Blessed Jeanne Emilie de Villeneuve was born in France, in Toulouse in 1811. She founded the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception for the education of poor girls and children, for the sick and for missions in faraway lands. She died of cholera on October 2nd 1854. She was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
  2. Blessed Mary Alphonsine Danil Ghattas was born in Jerusalem in 1843. When she was 15 she entered the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph of the Apparition. She worked tirelessly to help young people and Christian mothers. She had a special mystic affinity with the Mother of God. She founded the Congregation of Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem, to which she belonged. She died in 1927 and was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
  3. Blessed Mary of Jesus Crucified Baouardy was born Maria Baouardy in Abellin, a village in Upper Galilee, near Nazareth, in 1846 of Arab parents. She was baptized in the Melchite Greek Catholic Church. From early youth she experienced many sufferings together with extraordinary mystic phenomena. In France, she entered the Carmel of Pau. She was sent to India to found new Carmels, and then to Bethlehem, where she died in 1878. She was beatified by St John Paul II in 1983.

Tuesday 31 March 2015

500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Teresa of Avila, Pope: St Teresa of Avila is primarily a teacher of prayer - Independent Catholic News



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Pope Francis issued the following letter to the Superior General of the Order of Discalced Carmelites, Fr Xavier CannistrĂ , to mark the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the birth of Saint Teresa of Avila on Saturday.

Dear Brother, On the 500th anniversary of the birth of St Teresa of Jesus, I wish, together with the whole Church, to give thanks to the great family of Discalced Carmelites--religious men and women and secular members--for the charism of this remarkable woman. I consider it a providential grace that this anniversary coincides with the Year of Consecrated Life, in which the saint of Avila shines as a sure and attractive model of total self-giving to God. It is one more reason to look to the past with gratitude and to rediscover "the inspiring spark" that gave impetus to the founders and to the first communities (cf. Letter to all consecrated people, 21 November 2014).

How much goodness does the testimony of her consecration - born directly from the encounter with Christ, her experience of prayer as continuous dialogue with God, and her community life, rooted in the motherhood of the Church - do for us!

1. St Teresa is primarily a teacher of prayer. The discovery of Christ's humanity was central to her experience. Moved by the desire to share this personal experience with others, she describes it in a vivid and simple way, accessible to everyone, because it consists simply in "a relationship of friendship ... with he who we know loves us" (Life, 8, 5 ).

Many times this same narrative becomes prayer, as if she had wanted to introduce the reader into her interior dialogue with Christ.

Teresa's prayer was not reserved only to one space or to one time of day; it arose spontaneously in the most diverse occasions: "It would be extremely difficult if you could only pray in secluded places" (Foundations, 5, 16).

She was convinced of the value of continuous prayer, even if it was not always perfect. The saint asks us to be steadfast, faithful, even in times of dryness, personal difficulties or urgent needs that call us. Teresa left us a great treasure to renew consecrated life today, full of concrete proposals, ways and methods to pray, that, far from closing us in on ourselves or leading us only to inner balance, always make us start again from Jesus and constitute a genuine school to grow in love for God and neighbour.

2. Since her encounter with Jesus, St Teresa lived "another life"; she become a tireless communicator of the Gospel (cf. Life, 23, 1). Eager to serve the Church, and in the face of serious problems of her time, she did not limit herself to being a spectator of the reality around her. In her position as a woman and with her health difficulties, she decided, she said, "to do what little depended on me ... that is to follow the evangelical counsels as perfectly as possible and to ensure that these few nuns who are here do the same" (The Way, 1, 2).

Thus began the Teresian reform, in which she asked her sisters not to lose time negotiating with God "interests of little importance," while "the world is in flames" (ibid., 1, 5). This missionary and ecclesial dimension has always marked the Carmelites and Discalced Carmelites. As she did then, even today the saint opens new horizons for us, she calls us to a great undertaking, to see the world with the eyes of Christ, to seek what He seeks and to love what He loves.

3. St Teresa knew that neither prayer nor mission can be sustained without authentic community life. Therefore, the foundation that she laid in her monasteries was fraternity: "Here everyone must love one another, care for each other and help one another" (ibid., 4, 7).

And she was very careful to warn her sisters about the danger of individualism in fraternal life, which consists "all or almost all in the denial of ourselves and of our own comforts" (ibid., 12, 2) and to place ourselves at the service of others. To avoid this risk, the saint of Avila recommended to her sisters, first of all, the virtue of humility, which is neither outward neglect nor inner shyness of the soul, but each knowing their own abilities and what God can do in us (cf. Relations, 28). The opposite is what she calls "false point of honour" (Life, 31, 23), a source of gossip, jealousy and criticism, which severely damage relationships with others. Teresian humility consists of self-acceptance, awareness of one's own dignity, missionary courage, gratitude and trust in God. With these noble roots, Teresian communities are called to become houses of communion, capable of witnessing to fraternal love and to the motherhood of the Church, presenting to the Lord the needs of the world, torn by divisions and wars.

Dear Brother, I do not want to end without thanking the Teresian Carmelite communities that entrust the Pope, with special tenderness, to the protection of the Virgin of Carmel, and accompany, with their prayers, the great trials and challenges of the Church. I ask the Lord that your witness of life, like that of St Teresa, allows the joy and beauty of living the Gospel to shine and attracts many young people to follow Christ closely. To the whole Teresian family, I warmly impart my Apostolic Blessing.

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Pilgrimage to celebrate the 500th anniversary of St. Teresa of Avila's birth unveiled

  
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