UCatholic, Billy Ryan: With France in anarchy, bishops gathered at the Synod of Charroux to decree the first Pax Dei in 989 A.D. The Peace of God automatically excommunicated anyone in Western France who attacked women, children, farmers, merchants, clergy, and churches. The Pax Dei spawned the first mass peace movement that spread across Western and Central Europe. More here,
The Principles of Peace That Once Ruled Catholic Nations
Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“These were twenty-two young men and boys, from thirteen to thirty years in age, who were martyred for the Catholic Faith in Uganda in Africa after undergoing cruel torments.”
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“She was a queen, the wife of King Clovis of the Franks, who brought the French people as a nation into the Catholic Church in 496, when he was baptized at Rheims by Saint Remigius.”
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.“He is one of the great Irish saints. He was the founder of the famous monastery of Glendalough. Along with Saint Laurence O’Toole, he is one of the patron saints of Dublin.”
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Brother André Marie, M.I.C.M.Relevant thoughts from last year for this First Friday in June: On Loving and Hating in June: the Sacred Heart vs. Depraved ‘Pride’
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