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As her illness had taken a toll on her strength, Saint Gemma Galgani was not able to return to school. She remained at home and taught her sisters and brothers. At her beatification, one of her brothers said, "Gemma always brought the olive branch." She lovingly cared for the needs, both spiritual and physical, of her family, often at the neglect of herself. She had no use for fancy clothes, and adorned herself in simple, extremely austere black dresses.

Spurr is a bounty hunter as he trails men through feverish shadowlands. Led by outlaws to kill a wanted man who may or may not have been his own son, Spurr next embarks on an extraordinary odyssey, his only companion an outcast Apache woman known as Fuego, a journey in which he is searching for the truth about himself and his long-lost family.

Larry Scott is branded an outlaw, framed for murder and accused of cattle rustling. It would seem the only course open to Scott to prove his innocence is to find those really guilty. But that objective is unlikely in the extreme, after he is arrested, charged, and jailed.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Miracles of the Cross in the Lives of the Saints and learn about the lives of saints.

The flow of life carries us along almost imperceptibly. Its current is subtle enough to be felt only occasionally, as when we celebrate a birthday or cross the street to work for the thousandth time. It can also come to mind when we notice the children around us, now into their adulthood. Denial is a beautiful thing until the day we can't ignore that the current has threatened to strand us on the shore unless we make adjustments and change course.

Janet’s first love arrives out of the blue after 30 years. Those were simpler times for them both. Sunny childhood beach holidays, fish and chips and big copper pennies clunking into one armed bandits. The Wells family has run the Cromer Pier Summertime Special Show for generations. But it’s now 2009 and the recession is biting hard. Owner Janet Wells and daughter Karen are facing an uncertain future.

Waking up in prison is never an ideal situation to be in but not knowing why you're there in the first place is even worse. Carolyn has to come to terms with who she is and her newfound predicament. The next few people will ultimately decide her decision. But will she learn to cope with it or stop at nothing to finesse her way out of it altogether?

Saint Vincent de Paul could have stayed and basked in the glory that was Rome, but knew he had to go on to Paris. News of his involvement in the conversion of the apostate came to the attention of Pope Paul V, and in 1608, Vincent was commissioned to go to Henry IV on a confidential mission. Vincent departed for Paris, posthaste.

Reformer of the Franciscan Movement. Reformer of the Franciscans Come with us to Assisi and Siena,where St. Bernardine converted the people to adore Jesus in the Eucharist. See the symbol of the Eucharist in Siena and Florence as a result of evangelization by the Saint. Follow the Saint on his last journey which ended in the mountain town of L'Aquila, where he died and is buried.

Abby is your typical college freshman - keen to party and even keener to fit in with her sorority sisters whilst also trying to hit it off with the guys in her class. She’s also working two jobs to pay her bills. At her sorority house’s annual Halloween party, Abby is pressured into drinking hallucinogenic absinthe by her jock boyfriend Trent before he humiliates her in front of all their friends.

A romantic novella in the Icebound series, an ongoing collection of polar delights. Behold dogsleds and penguins. Howling winds and cold, pitiless wastes. This is Antarctica, where the intrepid inhabitants of the frozen ends of the earth battle the terrain, and each other, to find love - in a past much like that of the early 1900s. Amidst the scientists and explorers at the British Antarctic base in 1900 there are a few women who serve as maids, cooks, and nurses. Then there’s Electa Yellowsmith.

A romantic novelette in the Icebound series, an ongoing collection of polar delights. Behold dogsleds and penguins. Howling winds and cold, pitiless wastes. This is Antarctica, where the intrepid inhabitants of the frozen ends of the earth battle the terrain, and each other, to find love - in a past much like that of the early 1900s. Reluctant spinster Florance Barton fled to the British Antarctic base to escape a scandalous love affair. Amidst the handful of other women there, Florance is the perfect chambermaid, meek, mild, and forgettable.

Eighty-nine is just a number…. A nameless immortal tasked with ensuring fixed points in time. Without fail she’s always done her job, protecting reality. But Eighty-nine’s world is flipped upside down when a jarring discovery, followed by a loss, causes her to question everything. With the help of an unlikely ally, Eighty-nine will embark on a journey that will end with one simple choice: to save reality or let it be ripped apart forever.

The battle is on for souls! Families are waking up, taking notice of the world’s influences on their children’s lives and they are horrified! And rightly so! They’ve lost control. We get call after call commending us on our television programs on the Super Saints. And they are from Catholics and non-Catholics, lay people - like parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles; religious, Nuns and Pastors - thanking us for bringing heroes their young people can use as role models. The cry is always the same!

This is an account of recorded miracles connected with the practice of the Eucharist over the centuries with a view to showing that miracles still happen today.

Saint Edith Stein was born in Poland on October 12, 1891. Her parent were Jewish. She was a brilliant student. When she turned seventeen, she entered a Girl's High School in Breslau. At the same time, in another part of Germany, another teenager - Adolph Hitler was failing an entrance exam to the Academy of Arts and already blaming it all on the Jews. Two teenagers, one a Saint and the other damned to hell for all eternity.

Through the divine fire which burned inside Saint Catherine of Genoa, while she was still on earth, she was able to understand the state of souls in Purgatory. The Lord had purified her soul, in the furnace of his love, as gold is refined of all its impurities, by fire! Cleansing her of every stain of sin while she was still in the flesh, he was perfecting her on earth, so that when Catherine passed to the next world, she would be ready to appear before him.

The Life of Sainit Gabriel Possenti, Co-Patron of Italian Catholic Youth: One of our powerful saints for the youth. Born in Assisi, he moved to Spoleto before a great Cholera epidemic broke out. Come to Morrovalle near the Adriatic Sea, where he spent most of his life as a brother, and then to Isola di Gran Sasso high on a mountain, where he died. Special scenes of his life and miracles from his Shrine in Teramo.

This is an account of four recorded miracles connected with the practice of the Eucharist.

This very special saint was mystically married to Jesus and possessed a special ring from him. She had the gift of the Stigmata and went to Rome to have meetings with St.Philip Neri. Come to Prato, Italy, to the Convent of St.Vincent where the saint lived and is buried. Her body is incorrupt. Discover the miraculous statue of Our Lady which saved the nuns from barbarians.