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St. Christopher, Christ-bearer

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PATRON SAINT OF: against lightning, against pestilence archers, automobile drivers, automobilists, bachelors, Baden, Germany, boatmen, bookbinders, Brunswick, Germany, bus drivers, cab drivers, epilepsy, epileptics, floods, fruit dealers, fullers, gardeners, hailstorms, holy death, lightning, lorry drivers, mariners, market carriers, Mecklenburg, Germany motorists, pestilence, porters, Rab Croatia, sailors, Saint Christopher’s Island, Saint Kitts, storms, sudden death, taxi … Read more

World Youth Day, Sydney

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Sydney has never seen anything like it since the Olympics. Not even that event, however, could match the spectacle of a papal ‘boatacade’ gliding past the bridge and the opera house to deliver Pope Benedict into the cheering embrace of 200,000 young people from around the world. The Pope’s arrival at World Youth Day had … Read more

Invocation of Saint George

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Faithful servant of God and invincible martyr, Saint George; favoured by God with the gift of faith, and inflamed with an ardent love of Christ, thou didst fight valiantly against the dragon of pride, falsehood, and deceit. Neither pain nor torture, sword nor death could part thee from the love of Christ. I fervently implore … Read more