by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Mother Maria of St. Joseph (Laura Alvarado Cardozo), was born in the picturesque little seaport village of Choroní, Aragua, Venezuela, on April 25, 1875, the oldest of four children. Laura wanted to consecrate herself to God in a cloistered convent. Prevented...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
When King Henry VIII declared that he was supreme head of the Church in England, usurping the authority of the Pope, Parliament in 1535 made it high treason to uphold the Pope’s authority or to deny the King’s supremacy. Only the bravest were prepared to...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Gratia was born in 1438 in the village of Muo near Cattaro, now Kotor, on the Adriatic coast in southwest Montenegro. It was natural for him to become a sailor as it was for him to visit Venice, then an important sea power and in control of Kotor since1420. On...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
The first Augustinian missionaries reached Japan in 1602, the first Recollects twenty years later. Jesuits, Franciscans and Dominicans were also working there. The Orders saw this vast and mysterious empire as a great challenge to their faith and missionary zeal. At...
by Agustinos Recoletos | Dec 24, 2018
Two of the most influential hermits among the ermitical groups that came together in 1256 in the Grand Union to form the new Augustinian mendicant order. Both were noted for their strict lives of prayer and penance after conversion from more wayward youthful ways...
