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9/21/2020 0 Comments September 21st, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Grace is called the seed of God." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74)
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9/18/2020 1 Comment September 18th, 2020 After the defeat of the German Socialists and the beginning of the occupation by the Soviet Socialists, Father Stanisław Zieliński was executed - in his own home - with a shot to the head, March 10, 1945.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 9/18/2020 0 Comments September 18th, 2020 Years before his execution, Father José María Robles Hurtado proposed that a huge cross be erected in the geographic center of Mexico, which he said would be symbolic of how Mexico recognized Christ as its King, and organized a public ceremony for the laying of the cornerstone of the cross, in direct violation of the existing constitution. In 1923, an estimated 40,000 Roman Catholics made their way to the site of the cross to take part in the groundbreaking ceremonies at the hill, which was at the time called "La Loma" and is today called the mountain of Christ the King.
VIVA CRISTO REY! 9/18/2020 0 Comments September 18th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Grace comes midway between nature and glory." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 9/17/2020 0 Comments September 17th, 2020 More than a dozen Soviet Socialist Red Army soldiers forced their way into the home of a parishioner of Father Joachim Ziemetzki, where he was seeking shelter. Forced outside, behind the house, the priest was executed with two others, January 26, 1945.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 9/17/2020 0 Comments September 17th, 2020 After saying a prayer in the home of the Agraz family hiding him from the Mexican Socialists, Father José María Robles Hurtado was arrested and sentenced to be hanged. Led to the oak tree, he forgave the men for what they were about to do, took the noose into his own hands, said, "Don't dirty your hands," to the man who brought it, kissed it, and placed it around his own neck, June 26, 1927.
Viva Cristo Rey! 12/10/2017 9/17/2020 0 Comments September 17th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"The angelic nature was first made without form and was called heaven; but afterwards it received it form and was then called light." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 9/16/2020 0 Comments September 16th, 2020 An active chaplain in the underground activity of the Union for Armed Struggle ZWZ, Father Stanisław Ziętara was arrested - along with 16 other ZWZ members - by the Soviet Socialists, tortured, sentenced to death and executed in the Rivne Prison, April 8, 1941.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 9/16/2020 0 Comments September 16th, 2020 In 1927, during the Mexican government’s continuing persecution of the Church, Father Mateo Correa Magallanes was arrested by soldiers as he was bringing Viaticum to an invalid woman. He was arrested for not revealing what prisoners had confessed, even after a gun was pointed at his head. Continuing to refuse, at dawn on February 6, 1927, he was escorted to the cemetery on the outskirts of Durango and shot through the head.
Viva Cristo Rey! 12/9/2017 9/16/2020 0 Comments September 16th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Every movement of the will toward God can be termed a conversion to God." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 9/15/2020 0 Comments September 15th, 2020 During the Vistula–Oder Offensive, Soviet Socialists arrested Father Feliks Zimmermann, who was deported via a cattle car deep into Russia, to the Ural Mountains, along with five other priests, four of whom died during the journey: Father Wilhelm Schnarkowski, Father Herbert Schulz, Father Gerard Thidigk and Father Hugo Wessolek. Father Marcin Jabłoński was shipped in another car. Father Zimmerman perished in Semereit gulag, April 28, 1945.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 9/15/2020 0 Comments September 15th, 2020 Father David Uribe Velasco was executed -- shot in the back of the head -- on April 12, 1927, for offering the Sacraments, which had been outlawed in Mexico during the Catholic persecution against priests and the faithful.
Viva Cristo Rey! 12/9/2017 9/15/2020 0 Comments September 15th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"The grace of God is life everlasting." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 9/14/2020 0 Comments September 14th, 2020 Back home for a family visit, Franciscan Father Bertrand (born Franciszek Zimolong) stood up in defense of his niece harassed by a Soviet Socialist Red Army soldier, and he was fatally bayoneted by the soldier, June 18, 1945.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 9/14/2020 0 Comments September 14th, 2020 Mexican Cristeros lynched, killed for their Catholic Faith after suffering at the bloody hands of the Mexican Socialist and pro-Communist government that persecuted the Catholic Church and her faithful.
The cry of the Cristeros -- Viva Cristo Rey! 12/6/2017 9/14/2020 0 Comments September 14th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"To turn oneself to God is to dispose oneself for grace." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 9/11/2020 0 Comments September 11th, 2020 Arrested by the Christian-hating Soviet Socialists, Father Helmut Zint was shipped in a rail cattle car during a torturous 32-day journey, during which 200 prisoners died. Arriving at Stalino gulag, Father Zint soon died and was buried in a mass grave, March 30, 1945.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 9/11/2020 0 Comments September 11th, 2020 One of the 4,000 priests -- who were martyred in or exiled by the pro-Communist government in Mexico during the anti-Catholic persecution of the Church in the 1920s and 1930s -- was the priest Father Francesco Vera. He was shot by a firing squad, just as Father Miguel Pro was, immediately after offering the outlawed holy sacrifice of the Mass.
VIVA CRISTO REY! NOTE: Where there were 4,500 priests serving the people before the rebellion, in 1934 there were only 334 priests licensed by the government to serve fifteen million people, the rest having been eliminated by emigration, expulsion and assassination. --from wikipedia 12/5/2017 9/11/2020 0 Comments September 11th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"The angel has a twofold knowledge of the Word: the one which is natural, and the other according to glory." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 9/10/2020 0 Comments September 10th, 2020 Arrested by Soviet Socialists, Father Jan Leon Ziółkowski was shipped to Kozielsk prisoner camp, where he celebrated clandestine Holy Masses for the Polish POWs. Finally transported to the site of Katyń Massacre, he was executed, on April 9, 1940.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 9/10/2020 0 Comments September 10th, 2020 The killing of Jose Luis Sanchez del Rio, 14-year-old Mexican Cristero martyr
At 11 p.m., the hour of martyrdom arrived. Believing that torture would change the mind of the boy, the government soldiers flayed the skin from the soles of his feet, thinking that José would weaken and cry out for mercy. But they were wrong. As the sharp pain seared through his body, José thought of Christ on the Cross and offered him everything, all the while shouting ‘Viva Cristo Rey!’ Then the soldiers, hurling insults at him and giving him blows forced him to walk barefoot with his injured feet through the cobblestone streets toward the cemetery. Along the way, some of the soldiers cut his body with a machete until he was bleeding from several wounds. At times they stopped him and said, “If you shout, ‘Death to Christ the King’ we will spare your life.” Jose would only shout, “I will never give in. Viva Cristo Rey! Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!” When they reached the cemetery, the soldiers stood the boy before a newly dug hole, his grave. The executioners riddled his battered body with bayonet stabs. At each stab, the boy cried out louder, “Viva Cristo Rey!” Then the commander of the guard addressed the youth, cruelly asking if he wanted to send a message to his father. To this José replied without yielding, “That we will see each other in Heaven. Viva Cristo Rey! ¡Viva Santa María de Guadalupe!” These were his last words. The captain drew his pistol and shot him in the head. José fell into the pit. It was half past eleven on Friday, February 10, 1928. He was 14-years-old. --- From "José Sánchez del Rio, Martyr for Christ the King" 12/4/17 9/10/2020 0 Comments September 10th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"Beatitude is naturally desired, since everything naturally desires its ultimate perfection." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) 9/8/2020 0 Comments September 08th, 2020 On his way for catechesis in Czarnów, Father Stanisław Ziółkowski was fatally shot by a 19-year-old policeman, Bolesław Bajer, in the forest near the church, September 23, 1946.
VIVA CRISTO REY! Niech żyje Chrystus Król! 9/8/2020 0 Comments September 08th, 2020 With the body of Father Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez lying nearby, Luis Segura Vilchis, a prominent member of the Catholic Association of Mexican Youth, faces a Mexican firing squad, November 23, 1927.
VIVA CRISTO REY! 12/3/17 9/8/2020 0 Comments September 08th, 2020 From the #AngelicDoctor...
"By the name of beatitude is understood the ultimate perfection of rational or of intellectual nature." -- #SaintThomasAquinas (1225-74) |
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