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Devotees praying to Santa Muerte in Mexico. Santa Muerte can be translated into English as either "Saint Death" or "Holy Death", although R. Andrew Chesnut, Ph.D. in Latin American history and professor of Religious studies, believes that the former is a more accurate translation because it "better reveals" her identity as a folk saint.
Some of these altars host public festivities on 15 August as San La Muerte's saint's day. (Since the Catholic Church evidently has assigned no day for veneration of a saint it does not recognize, the date is somewhat contested and in some cases his day is celebrated on 13 August.) [4] The feast day of San La Muerte (15 August) falls on the ...
March 22, 2009: The Polish media reports that the cause for beatification of Pope John Paul II (pictured) has been concluded at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, and that the late pontiff could be beatified as early as April 2, 2010, the fifth anniversary of his death.(Catholic News Agency), (National Catholic Register)
The Catholic News Agency (CNA) is a news service owned by Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) [1] that provides news related to the Catholic Church to a global Anglophone audience. It was founded in 2004 in Denver , Colorado , United States as the English section of the worldwide ACI Group, which publishes the Spanish-language news service ...
St. Ciarán's Church (CoI) Ciarán of Saigir (Old Irish pronunciation: [ˈkʲiːaraːn … ˈsagʲirʲ]; 5th century – c. 530), also known as Ciarán mac Luaigne or Saint Kieran (Welsh: Cieran), was one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland [2] and is considered the first saint to have been born in Ireland, [3] although the legend that he preceded Saint Patrick is questionable.
Adalbert of Prague, (Latin: Sanctus Adalbertus, Czech: svatý Vojtěch, Slovak: svätý Vojtech, Polish: święty Wojciech, Hungarian: Szent Adalbert (Béla); c. 956 – 23 April 997), known in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia by his birth name Vojtěch (Latin: Voitecus), was a Czech missionary and Christian saint. [3]
The press office operates every day in Italian, although texts in other languages are also available. On Saturday 27 June 2015 Pope Francis , through an apostolic letter issued motu proprio ("on his own initiative") established the Secretariat for Communications in the Roman Curia ; the Press Office was incorporated into it, but at the same ...
In a statement issued soon after the news broke from the Vatican, the President of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC), Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, said the late German-born Pope will long be remembered fondly in Australia as the Pontiff who led young people from around the globe in prayer at World Youth Day in Sydney in ...