Tag: Saints
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What was the trade of Saint Joseph?
By Fr Armand de Malleray, FSSP Was St Joseph a carpenter? A carpenter is a worker who builds or repairs wooden objects and structures. According to the Greek Gospels St Joseph was a tekton indeed, as attested by St Matthew 13:55, and St Mark 6:3. The word tekton means a builder in general and a carpenter in particular.…
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Bl. Noël Pinot, a Shepherd for Times of Trial
Frs Franck Labbé and A. de Malleray tell the story of the exemplary pastor who died wearing his priestly vestments. The blessed martyr Fr Noël Pinot (1747-1794) was a recusant priest from Anjou in Western France, guillotined during the Revolution. The last of a weaver’s sixteenth children, he lost his father at the age of…
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Ivan Merz and the Liturgy as the Highest Form of Art
Seminarian Stjepan Androić, FSSP describes the life and work of his fellow-Croatian Blessed Ivan Merz (1896–1928) Philologist, teacher, literary critic, youth activist, lover of liturgy – Ivan Merz was all of these things and much more. Although born into a nominal Catholic family in Banja Luka (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina), this young man would eventually…