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Juana Fernandez Solar was born in Santiago, Chile, on July 13, 1900. From her adolescence, she was devoted to Christ. She entered the monastery of the Discalced Carmelite Nuns at Los Andes on May 7, 1919, where she was given the name of Teresa of Jesus. She died on April 12 of the following year after having made her religious profession. She was beatified on April 3, 1987, at Santi...
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Louis Martin was born in Bordeaux on August 22, 1823. While he was a master watchmaker in Alençon, he met Marie Azelie (Zélie) Guérin, a lacemaker born in Gandelain (St-Denis-sur-Sarthon), on December 23, 1831. They were married on July 13, 1858, and had nine children, including the future Saint Thérèse of the Infant Jesus. Model spouses, devoted p...
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Giuseppina Catanea was born in Naples on February 18, 1894. She entered the Carmelite community of Santa Maria Ponti Rossi and made her solemn profession on August 6, 1933. In 1945, she was elected prioress, an office she held until her death. She endured the painful trials of illness and persecution by abandoning herself to the will of God. All who sought her help were inspired by ...
The Nativity of St. John the Baptist
We join with all the Church to celebrate St. John the Baptist, the great bridge between the Old and New Testaments, who calls us to Christ in all the Gospels. Let us remember that when the Archangel Gabriel told the Blessed Virgin Mary of this wonder, She got up and went in haste to a town in the mountains of Judah (the inscription in Latin on the pictur...
Eucharistic Adoration is at the Center of Our Charism
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“Elijah came upon Elisha and threw his cloak over him. Immediately Elisha left the oxen and ran after Elijah as his attendant” (cf. 1 Kgs 19:19–21). Elisha was filled with the spirit of Elijah; among the many signs he performed, he cured Naaman of Leprosy and raised a dead child to life. He lived among the sons of the prophets, and in God’s name, he frequentl...
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Blessed Maria Candida of the Eucharist was born on January 16, 1884, in Catanzano. Her parents, Pietro Barba and Giovanna Florona, returned to Palermo, Sicily, where she received First Holy Communion on April 3, 1894. In 1919, she entered the Discalced Carmelite Monastery, Ragusa, making solemn profession on April 23, 1924. She was Prioress and Mistress of Novices many times, radiat...
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He was born in 1891 at Baranowka, near Lubartow, Poland. He entered the Order of Discalced Carmelites in 1908, taking the religious name Alphonsus Maria of the Holy Spirit. He was ordained a priest and appointed as a professor while dedicating himself to the education of youth. Afterward, he served in his Order as prior and bursar. In 1944, after having been arrested by the troops t...
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Anne of Saint Bartholomew was born Ana García y Manzanas in Almendral, a village in Castile, Spain. At the age of 21, she joined the newly founded Discalced Carmelite monastery in Avila and became a companion to Saint Teresa of Ávila. In St. Teresa of Avila’s later years, Anne was her close friend and aide, and the saint died in Anne’s arms in 1582. Anne le...
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Blessed Elia of St. Clement was born in Bari, January 17, 1901, to deeply Christian parents. At her baptism, she was given the name Theodora, ‘gift of God.’ In the brief course of her life on earth, she lived up to her name. On April 8, 1920 (then Feast of St. Albert, author of the Carmelite Rule), she entered the Carmel of St. Joseph in Bari. She received the habit on N...
