“To die with sword in hand against hell”

For St. Leonard of Port Maurice, missionary work was not an obstacle to recollection, but was seen as a campaign against hell, for which he momentarily abandoned the peace of the cloister for the good of souls.

Mary’s Garden, which Nothing Could Destroy

Out of the mists of the improbable, a beautiful garden sprang up in the Land of the Rising Sun, planted to give Our Lady, not flowers of this world, but souls for her Reign.

St. Anthony of Padua – the smiling … and fighter of heresies!

We will never understand the spirituality of St. Anthony of Padua without viewing it from an essential and ever-present aspect of existence in this valley of tears: struggle, combat and suffering. It was the year 1221. In the austere Franciscan convent of Forli, Italy, some sons of St. Francis and St. Dominic had gathered for […]