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Madonna del Bosco / Our Lady of the Woods, Imbersago, Como, Lombardy, Italy (1617) and Memorials of the Saints - 9 May

Madonna del Bosco / Our Lady of the Woods, Imbersago, Como, Lombardy, Italy (1617) and Memorials of the Saints – 9 May

St Gregory Nazianzen (330-390) Archbishop of Constantinople, Father, Doctor, Confessor, Theologian, Philosopher.(In 1969, St Gregory’s Feast was combined with that of St Basil the Great – “Two Bodies one Spirit” and was then celebrated on 2 January).Their lives…

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Saint of the Day - 9 May - Blessed Thomas Pickering OSB (c 1621-1679) Martyr

Saint of the Day – 9 May – Blessed Thomas Pickering OSB (c 1621-1679) Martyr

Saint of the Day – 9 May – Blessed Thomas Pickering OSB (c 1621-1679) Martyr, Benedictine Lay Brother. bBorn in c 1621 in Westmorland, England and died by being hanged, drawn and quartered on 9 May 1679 at Tyburn, London, England. He was one of the 107 martyrs Beatified by Pope Pius XI on 15 December 1929 and is, therefore, remembered with them all on 4 May. In character, he was described, as the…

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Madonna del Bosco / Our Lady of the Woods, Imbersago, Como, Lombardia, Italy (1617) and Memorials of the Saints

Madonna del Bosco / Our Lady of the Woods, Imbersago, Como, Lombardia, Italy (1617) and Memorials of the Saints

Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter +2021 Madonna del Bosco / Our Lady of the Woods, Imbersago, Como, Lombardy, Italy (1617) – 9 May: On 8 May 1617, three shepherds, one named Peter, saw the Madonna near a large tree, a chestnut tree to be exact. They reported that the apparition rose up and disappeared into the sky.They were believed immediately as that particular and only chestnut tree, was…

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