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I shall be travelling to help celebrate some birthdays over the next few days, so the blog will be suspended till Wednesday 17th December (when I have to attend a funeral!)

 
 
 

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Sanctity and Despair

St Mary Magdalen dei Pazzi O.Carm (1566-1607 – feast day today) was a much younger Italian contemporary of St Teresa; her incorrupt body remains in the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Florence.

 
 
 
Trials overcome triumphantly

Yesterday I wrote about St Eugene de Mazenod and referred to the destruction of Carmel in the French Revolution and its later restoration in the 19th Century. A leading role in the restoration of the

 
 
 
Our debt to the OMI

We Carmelites in England and Wales have particular reason to be grateful to the Frenchman St Eugene de Mazenod (1782-1861 – feast day today). We have been enjoying the facilities at Wistaston Retreat

 
 
 

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