Soon to be Blessed: Mother Clelia Merloni
A Blessed Who Will Give Hope I was delighted recently to receive an invitation to the beatification of Mother Clelia Merloni (1861–1930), foundress of the...
An Irish Bishop Who Died in Italy
Blessed Thaddeus McCarthy We kept today the commemoration of Blessed Thaddeus Machar (McCarthy). When we first began following the Irish Sanctoral, and I had to...
Some sayings of Mother Mectilde
Nothing so charms God as does a person who is humble. He rushes into this soul with the same speed as lightening before thunder or...
Nothingness doesn’t even attach itself to nothingness
In 1699, Mother Mectilde again writes to Mother Saint–François–de–Paule Charbonnier. The latter is, it would seem from the tone of this letter, well on her...
Yet ever thou art at my side
In 1667, Mother Mectilde writes again to Mother Saint–François–de–Paule Charbonnier, who has fallen prey to the torment of scrupulosity. This hard–hitting letter of direction is...