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Edward Okuń, Snowy Christ, 1929

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Saint Charbel Makhlouf

1828-1898

Feast day: July 24

Saint Charbel, born in a small village in Lebanon, to a poor religious family, entered the Maronite Monastery of St. Maroun, (A Lebanese Maronite order) at 23 and was ordained a priest in1859. He served there for 16 years, then retired to the hermitage of Sts. Peter and Paul. Charbel lived a severe ascetic life of prayer, mortification and self-denial and had a remarkable devotion to the Eucharist. He had a massive stroke while saying Mass on Christmas Eve and died 7 days later. For 45 days a bright light surrounded his tomb. The monks exhumed his body and it was found incorrupt. For approximately 62 years a viscous liquid came from his body. Many miracles are attributed to his intercession.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

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A rabbit, his sword and his slain enemy.

Inspired by illuminated manuscript marginalia depicting armed rabbits.

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Vito Scaletta 04/??

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“Tour Guides”

-2026

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Spider-Noir and the cube of mystery~

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“Since the herald of Christ

in his preaching

brilliantly shone with these and many other

miracles,

people paid attention to what he said

as if an angel of the Lord were speaking.

His extraordinary achievement in virtue,

his spirit of prophecy,

the power of his miracles,

his mission to preach conferred from heaven,

the obedience paid him by creatures lacking

reason,

the powerful change of heart experienced

at the hearing of his words,

his being instructed by the Holy Spirit

on a level beyond human teaching,

authorization to preach

granted by the Supreme Pontiff

who was guided by a revelation,

the Rule, in which the manner of preaching is described,

confirmed by the same Vicar of Christ,

and the marks of the Supreme King

imprinted on his body like a seal—

these are like ten witnesses

which testify without any doubt to the whole world

that Francis, the herald of Christ,

is worthy of veneration because of his mission,

authoritative in his teaching,

admirable for his holiness,

and therefore he preached the Gospel of Christ

as a true messenger of God.”

-St. Bonaventure, Life of St Francis of Assisi 

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The Archbishop of Canterbury is secretly messaging people on tumblr. Seems totally legit 🤔🤣

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St. Francis of Assisi didn’t go into schism to fix the Catholic Church

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“Protestant” is often used as a catch-all, but it flattens the depth of protestantism. There are many types of protestants. Presbyterians. Lutherans. Baptists. Continental reformed. Methodists. The Society of St Pius X.

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“By the Seraphic ardor of his desires, he was being borne aloft into God, and by his sweet compassion he was being transformed into him who chose to be crucified because of the excess of his love. On a certain morning about the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, while Francis was praying on the mountainside, he saw a Seraph with six fiery and shining wings descend from the height of heaven. And when in swift flight the Seraph had reached a spot in the air near the man of God, there appeared between the wings the figure of a man crucified, with his hands and feet extended in the form of a cross and fastened to a cross. Two of the wings were lifted above his head, two were extended for flight and two covered his whole body. When Francis saw this, he was overwhelmed and his heart was flooded with a mixture of joy and sorrow. He rejoiced because of the gracious way Christ looked upon him under the appearance of the Seraph, but the fact that he was fastened to a cross pierced his soul with a sword of compassionate sorrow.

He wondered exceedingly at the sight of so unfathomable a vision, realizing that the weakness of Christ's passion was in no way compatible with the immortality of the Seraph's spiritual nature. Eventually he understood by a revelation from the Lord that divine providence had shown him this vision so that, as Christ's lover, he might learn in advance that he was to be totally transformed into the likeness of Christ crucified, not by the martyrdom of his flesh, but by the fire of his love consuming his soul.

As the vision disappeared, it left in his heart a marvelous ardor and imprinted on his body markings that were no less marvelous. Immediately the marks of nails began to appear in his hands and feet just as he had seen a little before in the figure of the man crucified. His hands and feet seemed to be pierced through the center by nails, with the heads of the nails appearing on the inner side of the hands and the upper side of the feet and their points on the opposite sides. The heads of the nails in his hands and his feet were round and black; their points were oblong and bent as if driven back with a hammer, and they emerged from the flesh and stuck out beyond it. Also his right side, as if pierced with a lance, was marked with a red wound from which his sacred blood often flowed, moistening his tunic and underwear.”

-St. Bonaventure, Life of St Francis of Assisi 

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