The First English Female Writer and Mystic
But suddenly, after the priest at her bedside showed her the Crucified One, Julian stopped suffering and had sixteen visions.
But suddenly, after the priest at her bedside showed her the Crucified One, Julian stopped suffering and had sixteen visions.
What the impressive effect of the people, acclaiming in church the refrain of Psalm 118 (His mercy endures forever) produced in the lackeys of Arius.
The storms, caused by the “crude north wind,” are the threats of Lucifer under the name of Boreas, the icy wind coming the north.
Darius Milhaud described himself as “a Frenchman from Provence, and by religion a Jew."
Authentic and humble artists are perfectly well aware, no matter what kind of beauty characterizes their handwork, that their paintings, sculptures or creations are nothing else but the reflection of God’s Beauty.
The Sorrowful Virgin shared in the work of redemption with Jesus Christ.
The hymns he composed were, at the time of French Revolution, on the lips of the Blessed 47 Martyrs of Avrillé.
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