The feast of Mary, Queen of the Universe, was instituted by Pius XII in 1954, at the end of the Marian Year, in the encyclical letter Ad caeli Reginam. Mary is Queen because she was associated with her Son in…
The Assumption of Mary body and soul into heaven is the finishing touch of the Magnificat, where the great works that the Almighty performed on His Humble Slave are made visible. Today we see Mary in her stellar triumph, radiant….
1941, Auschwitz. A prisoner offers his life in place of a stranger sentenced to death iretaliation for the escape of another prisoner. Thus he was locked in a bunker until he died of hunger. Thus he died a martyr. Saint…
