Claudio was the youngest of nine children whose father died when the boy was only nine years old. At the age of 15 he entered the army where he served for three years. Eventually Claudio joined the Franciscans, and was known for his artistic abilities.
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Tiny satellites, also known as CubeSats, are pictured after being deployed into Earth orbit from a small satellite orbital deployer on the outside of the International Space Station’s Kibo laboratory module.
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A reading from the first Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1 COR 4:6b-15
Brothers and sisters: Learn from myself and Apollos not to go beyond…
If a man lies with a male as with a woman, they have committed an abomination; the two of them shall be put to death; their bloodguilt is upon them.
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Ringed ice giant Neptune
lies near the center of this sharp
near-infrared image from the
James Webb Space Telescope
Mother Teresa was born in Albania, but is known for her work in India. A member of the Sisters of Loreto, she felt a call to live among the poor. While working with the poorest of the poor in India, she founded the Missionaries of Charity who continue her work.
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These 3D-printed materials are called small-molecule ionic isolation lattices, or SMILES, and contain fluorescent dyes that emit a luminescent glow under ultraviolet light. They’re the world’s brightest-known fluorescent materials to date.
[Research supported by U.S. National Science Foundation …
This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item.
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Gregory, called “the Great,” became pope at the age of 50. In his new role, he had much to do both within and outside the Church. Known for his reform of the liturgy, he is credited as the author of the Gregorian chant used for centuries in the Latin church.
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A vivid aurora streams over the Earth as the International Space Station orbited 273 miles above the southern Indian Ocean in between Australia and Antarctica.
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Born in Harlem on August 2nd, 1924, novelist and essayist James Baldwin (1924 – 1987) is regarded as one of America’s greatest writers. At the time of his death on December 1st, 1987, Baldwin was working with sculptor and printmaker Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) of the Gehenna Press to publish a fine press edition of an unpublished work. Gypsy and Other Poems features six of Baldwin’s poems that reveal an intimate, introspective side of the writer.
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A new find makes one fossil trackway even more incredible because the trackway is split between two continents and separated by the Atlantic Ocean.
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This post walks you through the 285-day trip of Hawaii King Kalākaua as the first monarch to circumnavigate the globe in 1881, showing many of the routes and places he traveled or visited through maps and images at or near the time period.
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Pogorzelica beach, part of the Trzebiatowsko-Kołobrzeski Pas Nadmorski protected area in Pomerania, Poland
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From the outset of his presidency, Kennedy had ambitions of overthrowing Castro’s regime. Adhering to the Domino Theory, Kennedy feared that the spread of communism in one country would inevitably lead to its expansion in neighboring nations. Moreover, Castro found solidarity with his communist ally, Nikita Khrushchev, the Premier of Russia.
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Victims of the French Revolution, these blesseds witnessed to their faith by refusing to take a civil oath which amounted to a denial of their faith. On a single day in Paris, 185 priests and religious were martyred.
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Heavenly Father, I ask You in the name,
and through the Blood of Your Divine Son,
to rebuke Satan for taking captive
that which belongs to You.
I ask Jesus to place His Crown of thorns around
(Name the person)
so that those with wrong influences
will lose interest and depart.
Mary Mother of Jesus,
place your mantle of love around,
(your son and/or your daughter.)
Amen
St. Michael, protect them.
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Milky Way, Gift, Atacama, Radio Telescope, space Buffs
Tee shirt depicting a Radio Telescope and the Milky Way arcing over The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
We know little about Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus except what we find in scripture. We do know that they were Jewish men of some standing who were not afraid to express their respect for Jesus.
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Why does Saturn appear so big?
It doesn’t — what is pictured are foreground clouds on
Earth
crossing in front of the
Moon
A reading from the First Letter of St. Paul to the Corinthians 1 Cor 1:26-31
Consider your own calling, brothers and sisters. Not many of you were…
Canonized in 2009, Saint Jeanne Jugan had a history of helping the elderly and the poor. She founded the Little Sisters of the Poor to help her with her work, and by the time of her death the community numbered 2400 women.
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The angels too, who did not keep to their own domain but deserted their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains, in gloom, for the judgment of the great day.
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Leviticus 18:22 – You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; such a thing is an abomination.
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The martyrdom of John the Baptist is one of the most gruesome stories in the New Testament. Yet it is the story of the victory of faith and loyalty over cowardice and hate.
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