1/7/2021 0 Comments January 07th, 2021Attacked by Socialist Soviet Red Army soldiers who tied her legs together and dragged her behind a speeding vehicle, Sister Adelgarda (born Agata Eufemia Bönigk) perished on January 28, 1945.
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1/7/2021 0 Comments January 07th, 2021"We ask for repeal of Decree 62 that humiliates us," protested the Catholic townspeople of Tlalpujahua, on April 19, 1926, the decree that outlawed public worship, such as the the Holy Mass and the Sacraments.
Priests became enemies of the State during the Cristero War (1926–29), a civil revolt in Mexico against the anti-Catholic policies of the Mexican government, which enacted, under President Plutarco Elías Calles, a statute to enforce the anti-clerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, that sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church. Countless faithful were martyred and 4,000 priests were martyred in or exiled from Mexico for offering the outlawed holy sacrifice of the Mass. 1/7/2021 0 Comments January 07th, 2021From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Demons cannot know God, Who is most manifest of Himself, because He is the sovereign truth; and this is because they are not clean of heart, whereby alone can God be seen." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/6/2021 0 Comments January 06th, 2021Sister Maria Generosa (born Maria Bolz) perished, May 9, 1945, after defending her honor from the brutal hands of Soviet Socialist Red Army soldiers.
1/6/2021 0 Comments January 06th, 2021Victoriano Ramírez López, reknowned as "El Catorce" after he killed 14 federal soldiers during a shootout, was a very flawed man, a thief, a drunk and a womanizer with many bastards, but, somehow, he ended up on the right side of the Cristero War, when the Mexican government persecuted Catholics.
An outlaw, the only reason he was recruited into the Regiment of Jalpa de Canovas was because he was fearless and insanely brave, El Catorce's fellow Cristero Lieutenant Teniente Eulogio Gonzalez later told his grandson Bob Parr. El Catorce joined because he had no one. He had nothing to lose. No one loved him. No one even liked him, but he ended up fighting for a Holy Cause, a fight for the Faithful. Because the regiment relied heavily on El Catorce's outlaw skills for special missions, Lieutenant Gonzalez, an honorable man, often argued with his fellow Cristero, trying to convince him to sober up, to put down the bottle and to stay away from the women. And as for his death, legend has it that someone on the Cristero's side ordered a hit on El Catorce, a complex man in a complex world. And so it was. His execution was fulfilled, on March 17, 1929. The life of El Catorce proves that each person has a part in God's perfect plan no matter how imperfect the person. 1/6/2021 0 Comments January 06th, 2021From the #AngelicDoctor...
"In angels there is only an intellectual nature." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/5/2021 0 Comments January 05th, 2021Arrested by Soviet Socialists in the middle of the night, Seminarian Stanisław Bogucki and a few fellow Polish friars were shipped from Kaunus to Krasnoyarsk, where he slaved at railway construction until he was released, exhausted, unable to labor; he perished soon after, on March 28, 1942.
1/5/2021 0 Comments January 05th, 2021An "illegal" underground Mass, with Cristeros, the soldiers of Christ, when the Holy Mass and the Sacraments were outlawed and priests became enemies of the State during the Cristero War (1926–29), a civil revolt in Mexico against the anti-Catholic policies of the Mexican government, which enacted, under President Plutarco Elías Calles, a statute to enforce the anti-clerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, that sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church. Countless faithful were martyred and 4,000 priests were martyred in or exiled from Mexico for offering the outlawed holy sacrifice of the Mass.
1/5/2021 0 Comments January 05th, 2021From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Sin is contrary to the natural inclination." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 1/4/2021 0 Comments January 04th, 2021Accused of espionage and of counterrevolutionary, anti–Soviet activities because he was an Eastern Orthodox priest, Father Ivan Aleksandrovich Blumovich was sentenced to death by Socialist Soviet genocidal kangaroo court known as Troika NKVD and subsequently executed, on April 13, 1938.
1/4/2021 0 Comments January 04th, 2021Father Arroyo officiated the final Holy Mass, on July 30, 1926, in Valparaiso, Zacatecas, before the Mass, the Sacraments and even priests were outlawed by the anti-Catholic policies of the Mexican government, which enacted, under President Plutarco Elías Calles, a statute to enforce the anti-clerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, that sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church. The cruel laws resulted in a civil uprising, the Cristero War (1926–29).
1/4/2021 0 Comments January 04th, 2021From the #AngelicDoctor...
"As the Philosopher (Aristotle) says: Evil is in many, but good in is few." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) Thomas Aquinas was the greatest of the Scholastic philosophers. He produced a comprehensive synthesis of Christian theology and Aristotelian philosophy that influenced Roman Catholic doctrine for centuries and was adopted as the official philosophy of the Church in 1917. -- Britannica. 12/23/2020 0 Comments December 23rd, 2020During the Soviet offensive of 1945, Father Brunon Bludau and his sister sought refuge in the village Zdrój, captured by Soviets, on February 2, 1945. All residents were marched to nearby Lechowo, where Father Bludau was bound and beaten. Transported to Wystruć transit camp, his sister perished. Shipped via cattle car to the Ural mountains, he died in a slave labor gulag, on May 5, 1945.
#VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/23/2020 0 Comments December 23rd, 2020An "illegal" underground Mass on the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, August 15, 1929, when the Holy Mass and the Sacraments were outlawed and priests became enemies of the State during the Cristero War (1926–29), a civil revolt in Mexico against the anti-Catholic policies of the Mexican government, which enacted, under President Plutarco Elías Calles, a statute to enforce the anti-clerical articles of the Mexican Constitution of 1917, which sought to eliminate the power of the Catholic Church. Countless faithful were martyred and 4,000 priests were martyred in or exiled from Mexico for offering the outlawed holy sacrifice of the Mass.
#VivaCristoRey! 12/23/2020 0 Comments December 23rd, 2020From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Cheribum is derived from knowledge, which is compatible with mortal sin; but Seraphim is derived from the heat of charity, which is incompatible with mortal sin." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/22/2020 0 Comments December 22nd, 2020While on death row waiting to be executed by guillotine, the young Franciszek Blachnicki had a conversion of faith. He survived Auschwitz death camp and World War II to become a Catholic priest.
Later arrested by Soviet Socialists for "spreading false news about the persecution of the Church in Poland,” he served a short sentence and was released. However, he perished, on February 27, 1987, after he was poisoned, it is believed, by Soviet agents. #VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/22/2020 0 Comments December 22nd, 2020"LOS DAN NUESTROS TEMPLOS OR LOS TOMAMOS"
"GIVE US OUR CHURCHES OR WE WILL TAKE THEM" Catholic protestors during the Cristero War, when the pro-Communist, anti-Catholic government tried to destroy the Church. #VivaCristoRey! 12/22/2020 0 Comments December 22nd, 2020From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Cheribum is interpreted 'fulness of knowledge,' while Seraphim means 'those who are on fire,' or 'who set on fire.'" -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/21/2020 0 Comments December 21st, 2020Arrested by Soviet Socialists after the Red Army captured Olsztyn, being a counterrevolutionary because he was a Catholic priest, Father Paweł Bilitewski was shipped in a cattle car to a gulag in the Ural mountains, where he was forced to slave at clearing the forest. He soon fell ill and perished, on April 5, 1945.
#VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/21/2020 0 Comments December 21st, 2020"We live for God, and for Him we die," declared Father Agustín Caloca Cortés, his last words before executed by the firing squad, on May 25, 1927, in Colotlán, Jalisco, Mexico.
The 29-year-old priest was arrested by the anti-Catholic, pro-Socialist government, after he had warned seminarians to flee and hide from the approaching federal soldiers. Although offered his freedom, he refused unless freedom would also be granted to his fellow prisoner, Father Magallanes Jara, which was denied. #VivaCristoRey! 12/21/2020 0 Comments December 21st, 202012/18/2020 0 Comments December 18th, 2020During the battle of Wrocław, Sister Honoria (born Klara Biksa), tending to the old and infirm women, perished under the rubble of the Archbishop's palace, bombarded by the Soviet Socialists, April 1, 1945.
#VivaCristoRey! #NiechŻyjeChrystusKról! 12/18/2020 0 Comments December 18th, 2020"I am innocent, and I die innocent. I forgive with all my heart those responsible for my death, and I ask God that the shedding of my blood serves toward the peace of our divided Mexico," said Father Cristóbal Magallanes Jara, as he faced his executioners and absolved them before they shot him to death, on May 25, 1927.
During the Cristero War, the Christian uprising against the oppressive anti-clerical, pro-Communist Mexican government that persecuted Catholics, Father Cristóbal Magallanes Jara was arrested on his way to say Mass. For being a priest, he received a death sentence. #VivaCristoRey! 12/18/2020 0 Comments December 18th, 2020From the #AngelicDoctor...
"The whole corporeal creation is governed by God through the angels." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 12/17/2020 0 Comments December 17th, 2020Rounded up by the Soviet Socialists, Father Józef Bieniossek was forced to dig his own grave before he and a woman -- who owned the house where he stayed -- were beaten to death with the butts of rifles, January 29, 1945, in Gogolin, Poland. Their bodies were not found until two years later.
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