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St. Thomas and the Sacrament of Charity

June 6, 2024 Fr. Charles Fox 16

Before establishing the feast of Corpus Christi in 1264, Pope Urban IV called upon the services of St. Thomas Aquinas for the composition of prayers and hymns for the liturgical celebration of the feast. These […]

Shrouded connections: Serbia, the Shroud, and the Holy Face of Laon

November 7, 2021 James Day 6

In the mid-13th century, so the story goes, a man obtained an image of the Holy Face. He did not keep it for himself. Rather, he sent it to a Cistercian monastery northeast of Paris. […]