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Read more about the article Blessed Paul Peter Gojdic
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Blessed Paul Peter Gojdic

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:Jul 17, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

Peter Gojdic was born in Presov in present-day Slovakia. After his ordination as a Greek-Catholic priest, he entered a Basilian monastery and took the name Paul. Before taking his final…

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Read more about the article Saints Zelie and Louis Martin
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Saints Zelie and Louis Martin

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:Jul 12, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

Louis and Zélie Martin were canonized by Pope Francis in October 2015 during the Synod of Bishops on the Family. It was a fitting setting, as they became the first…

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Read more about the article Venerable Rafael Cordero y Molina
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Venerable Rafael Cordero y Molina

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:Jul 3, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

Rafael Cordero y Molina, a self-educated Afro-Puerto Rican, is remembered as the “Father of Public Education” in Puerto Rico. Born in San Juan to a poor family of free Blacks,…

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Read more about the article Mattie J. T. Stepanek
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Mattie J. T. Stepanek

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:Jun 23, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

If he had lived past his fourteenth birthday, if science had discovered a cure for the rare mitochondrial disorder that had previously claimed his three older siblings, Mattie Stepanek would…

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Read more about the article Martyrs of “Mother Emanuel”
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Martyrs of “Mother Emanuel”

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:Jun 17, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

Ten years ago, in the evening hours of June 17, 2015, a prayer service at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, was interrupted by a young white…

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Read more about the article Gabrielle Bossis
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Gabrielle Bossis

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:Jun 11, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

As a child in France, Gabrielle Bossis enjoyed a special sense of God’s presence. She liked to carry on “simple talks” with Jesus, a practice she continued all her life.…

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Read more about the article St. Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad
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St. Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:Jun 4, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

Mary Elizabeth Hesselblad, who was born to a poor Lutheran family in Sweden, immigrated to the United States in 1888 and enrolled in nursing school in New York City. There,…

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Read more about the article Servant of God Emil Kapaun
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Servant of God Emil Kapaun

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:May 23, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

Army chaplain Emil Kapaun, a priest from Pilsen, Kansas, shipped out to Korea in July 1950, soon after the outbreak of war, along with the Eighth Cavalry Division, Third Battalion.…

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Julian of Norwich

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:May 13, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

Little is known of this extraordinary Englishwoman apart from what she recorded in the account of her mystical revelations. There she recorded how she had prayed in her youth that…

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St. Catherine of Siena

  • Post author:Robert Ellsberg
  • Post published:Apr 29, 2025
  • Post category:Blessed Among Us

St. Catherine of Siena was one of the greatest saints of a tumultuous era. Like other great mystics, she enjoyed an intimate relationship with Christ. This was certified by a…

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