Sensational Saints

Legend holds that while he was still in the military and a catechumen of the faith, St Martin cut his cloak in half to share it with a beggar. That night, he dreamed that Jesus himself was clothed with the torn cloak. When he awoke, the garment was restored.

Francis preached the Christian doctrine that the world was created good and beautiful by God but suffers a need for redemption because of human sin. As someone who saw God reflected in nature, “St. Francis was a great lover of God’s creation … In the Canticle of the Sun he gives God thanks for Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Brother Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth, all of which he sees as rendering praise to God.

Francis preached the Christian doctrine that the world was created good and beautiful by God but suffers a need for redemption because of human sin. As someone who saw God reflected in nature, “St. Francis was a great lover of God’s creation … In the Canticle of the Sun he gives God thanks for Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Brother Wind, Water, Fire, and Earth, all of which he sees as rendering praise to God.

Archangels are incorporeal beings that were created to be God’s messengers.

It can be difficult to conceptualise angels within the modes of our modern rationalistic thinking. In this episode of Sensational Saints, we rediscover how to think about Archangels in a coherent and faithful way.

Saint Maximilian Kolbe Volunteered to die in place of a stranger in a Nazi death camp Maximilian Maria Kolbe was a Polish Catholic priest and Conventual Franciscan friar who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz. Born: 8 January 1894, Zduńska Wola, Poland Died: 14 August 1941,