Aleteia, Meg Hunter Kilmer: St. Mark Ji Tianxiang was an opium addict. Not had been an opium addict. He was an opium addict at the time of his death. Story is here.
July 9, Feast Day of Martyred Opium Addict St. Mark Ji Tianxiang
Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“This feast is more lovingly called “the Dormition” (the Sleep) of Our Lady... Then, with her body incorrupt, Mary was restored to life and was assumed, body and soul, into Heaven.”
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“Sensing that he would not live long, he would say, “If I do not become a saint when I am young, I shall never be one.”
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“Saint Hippolytus had been an antipope during the pontificate of Pope Saint Callistus. He was banished to Sardinia where he submitted to the legitimate Pope and urged his followers to submit also. He atoned for his sins by his martyrdom.”
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“One day, when the Saracens were besieging Assisi and trying to enter the Convent of Saint Damian where she and her nuns lived, she lifted up a monstrance in which the Blessed Sacrament had been placed and called upon Jesus to put the Saracens to flight…”
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“She lived at Augsburg and was the mother of the martyr, Saint Afra. Saint Hilaria was martyred at the tomb of her daughter.”
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