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Brother Fire
A piece from 2014, part of the sequence Thank You for the Rain, based on the Canticle of the Sun by St Francis. Just seems to fit with Advent somehow.

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2022-12-05

St. Margaret of Cortona, Penitent (1297)

Her mother died when she was seven. Her stepmother neglected her. She eloped with a youth and bore a son. After nine years, her lover was murdered. She joined the Third Order of St. Francis, and her son joined the Franciscans years later.

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2022-02-22

The Franciscans are a Catholic religious order founded under the ideals of Saint Francis of Assisi in the year 1210.

they were one of the first religious orders to arrive in Mexico in 1524, with the purpose of evangelizing the new conquered territories for the crown of Spain.

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2021-06-16

9 July 1572: The Gorkum Massacre - hanging of 19 Catholic clerics, predominantly in the town of Brielle / Den Briel by Calvinists These included Willehad of who'd fled the closure of the religious houses in that country (Rijksmuseum)

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2020-07-09

For the Feast of St. Francis, a page from the St. Francis Missal (W.75), believed to be a relic of touch by Franciscans worldwide!

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2017-10-05