Saint of the day and spiritual life #canonisation

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the Church in Vietnam endured one of the longest and most brutal persecutions in its history. Several emperors, including Gia Long, Minh Mạng, Thiệu Trị, and Tự Đức, promulgated anti-Christian edicts prohibiting: the practice of the faith, the presence of foreign missionaries, the construction of churches, baptism, and catechism. Christians were forced to trample on a crucifix to prove they renounced their faith. Those who refused were arrested, tortured, imprisoned, or executed. It is in this context that the luminous figure of Saint Andrew Dũng-Lạc emerges, surrounded by numerous Vietnamese martyrs and foreign missionaries.

The Catholic Church honors with great veneration the martyrs of Korea, among whom stand out Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gon, the first Korean priest, Saint Paul Chong Ha-sang, catechist and devout layman, as well as their companions who gave their lives for the faith in the 19th century.

Saint Louis, Louis IX of France, Christian king, Catholic Church, canonization, August 25, justice, charity, poor, hospitals, Blanche of Castile, Notre-Dame de Paris, Sainte-Chapelle, Sorbonne, peace, mediator, crusades, Tunis, Poissy, Basilica of Saint-Denis, Boniface VIII

The story of Our Lady of Guadalupe begins in December 1531, when the Virgin Mary appeared to Juan Diego, a Nahua indigenous man who had recently converted to Christianity, on the hill of Tepeyac (near Mexico City). She asked him to build a church there. To convince the bishop, she left a miraculous proof: her image imprinted on Juan Diego's tilma (cloak).

Saint Albert advocated the idea that science and faith could coexist harmoniously. He was particularly interested in the philosophy of Aristotle, and it was through him that this philosophy was introduced into Christian theology. He wrote numerous treatises covering a variety of subjects: zoology, botany, mineralogy, astronomy, and psychology. His experimental approach is considered innovative for the time, and some even see him as the precursor of the scientific method.