America: Ted Gioia: A young boy approached Mark Twain one day, after spotting the famous author standing alone on a stone bridge in Redding, Conn. Twain was a familiar presence in the community, and the boy had awaited such a chance to express his admiration. “I was glad that he was alone,” Coley Taylor recalled years later in an article in American Heritage. “I had wanted to tell him how much I had enjoyed Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.” Story here.
Mark Twain Calls It His ‘Best Book’: The Recollections of Joan of Arc
Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.What’s in that Prayer? The Collect for the Feast of Septuagesima
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.What’s in that Prayer? The Collect for the Feast of Saint Agatha
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“She is the beautiful little virgin martyr of Catania, in Sicily, who was killed for the Catholic Faith. Her name is mentioned in the Roman Canon of the Mass. She is also one of the seven girls named in the Litany of the Saints.”
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“These were three Japanese, members of the Society of Jesus, crucified for the Catholic Faith at Nagasaki in Japan.”
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