For three years, Catholic Austria went under the tyrannical rule of communist Russia after World War II. A Franciscan priest named Father Petrus remembered the story of how Christians in the sixteenth century had defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto through the rosary, despite being greatly outnumbered. Father Petrus launched a rosary crusade […]
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Rosary Story – Atom Bomb
On August 6, 1945 during World War II, an atomic bomb was dropped on the town of Hiroshima, Japan. 140,000 people were killed or injured. There was a home eight blocks (about 1 kilometer) from where the A-Bomb went off. This home had a church attached to it which was completely destroyed, but the home […]
The Beautiful Hands of a Priest
We need them in life’s early morning, We need them again at its close; We feel their warm clasp of true friendship, We seek them when tasting life’s woes. At the altar each day we behold them, And the hands of a king on his throne Are not equal to them in their greatness; Their […]