Musings
This category includes posts across the whole spectrum of topics and other issues such as museums, arts and culture, literature, writing and politics.
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Memories of Loyola
The birthplace of St Ignatius of Loyola, the Chapel of the Conversion, and the relic that…
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Mary Help of Christians and the Salesian saints of Turin
Don Bosco, Dominic Savio and the Basilica of Mary Help of Christians in Turin — a…
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After my death I will do more
Padre Pio’s life, stigmata, miracles and his promise that his real mission would begin after his…
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Doing things backwards in County Clare
St Brigid’s Well, the Cliffs of Moher and the quiet spiritual geography of County Clare —…
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Our Lady of Knock
The 1879 apparition in County Mayo — fifteen witnesses, a silent vision of light beings and…
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The intense light of San Giovanni Rotondo
Padre Pio’s home — the incorrupt body in Enzo Piano’s extraordinary basilica, the orbs in the…
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Our Lady of Pompeii
The Marian shrine Padre Pio prayed to throughout his life — a painting that compels prayer,…
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Walsingham
England’s Nazareth — the Holy House built overnight by angels, five centuries of royal pilgrims, and…
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Julian of Norwich
The mystic who wrote the first book in English by a woman — Julian’s near-death visions,…
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Canterbury’s martyr
Thomas Becket, the Archbishop who refused to bend — his murder in Canterbury Cathedral, his canonisation,…
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