Catholic Cruader

Another recent pick-me-up from Raynes Park. I don't think it is the first such so there must be a nest of Catholics using this particular station.

The magazine of the Crusade of Mary Immaculate, August/September 2011. Something to do with the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, while the editorial and printing part of the operation appears to be somewhere in Manchester.

The picture is of a church in Wexford.

A compendium of uplifting stories about saints and such, rounded out with crosswords, quizzes, letters from readers, private prayers, forms for making postal requests for professional prayers and various appeals for straightforward donations. I wonder if Anglicans produce anything like it?

I learn of St. Robert of Knaresborough, a famous religious of the 13th century. No proper record of his canonization. Of St. Maximilian Kolbe, starved then finished off by lethal injection at Auschwitz, getting on for eighty years ago now. Canonized by Pope John in 1982.

Reference 1: https://www.thegreyfriars.org/. 'We are the Friars Minor Conventual, Catholic men dedicated to living the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the spirit of St Francis of Assisi. We focus on the Gospel life, embraced by Saint Francis of Assisi, our Seraphic Father and founder. His light has been guiding us for eight centuries. We are spread throughout the world in service of the Gospel, living as pilgrims, preaching poverty and penance. In Great Britain and Ireland we are known as the Greyfriars, a name derived from the colour of our religious habit which was originally made from a greyish unbleached wool. Under the guidance of Mary Immaculate, Queen of our Franciscan family, we are commited to carrying the charism of St Francis to the ends of the Earth. We have a passionate will to imitate his spirit in modelling Christ perfectly in our hearts and in the lives of all'.