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[Cro-Magnon Reviews @MagnonReviews]

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[MrCasey @MrCasey62]

“Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. Do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage.”

~ St. Francis de Sales

[Catholic Arena @CatholicArena]

GERMANY 🇩🇪

The Vatican is officially investigating alleged apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus in Germany

The apparitions started in the early 2000s in Sievernich and in the past decade have allegedly predicted events such as the Notre Dame Fire and the Russian invasion of Ukraine as well as the issues in the Catholic Church in Germany

[Solas @solas_na_greine]

Ernst Steiner, Ohne Titel  (Untitled),  colour etching, 1998

[Solas @solas_na_greine]

Miniature from the Escorial Beatus, a 10th-century Mozarabic manuscript containing commentaries on the Apocalypse of Saint John. It depicts an Angel receiving one of the seven bowls from one of the four living creatures.

[Solas @solas_na_greine]

Christ Triumphant Over Death by Schelte Adams Bolswert
C17th

[Solas @solas_na_greine]

Sandro Botticelli, Coronation of the Virgin, c.1488

[Solas @solas_na_greine]

Giovanni Bellini, Angel of the Annunciation from his Polyptych of St Vincent Ferrier, c.1464

[Bree Solstad @BreeSolstad]

Today is the feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.

Her miraculous icon was stolen, carried across a storm-tossed sea, hidden for decades, and nearly forgotten.

It was then recovered because the Mother of God would not permit the world to lose her image.

This is its story. 🧵

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

Always wild this was real and not some adult swim type skit.

[Father V @father_rmv]

Blessed Severian Baranyk and Blessed Yakym Senkivskyj were Ukrainian Greek Catholic priests and monks of the Basilian Order who gave their lives as martyrs during the brutal Soviet occupation of western Ukraine in the early days of World War II. Both men embodied quiet pastoral dedication and deep faith in a time of ideological persecution, and their stories remain intertwined through shared vocation, monastery, and tragic end.

Severian Stefan Baranyk was born on July 18, 1889, in Uhniv, then part of Austrian Galicia. He entered the Basilian monastery at Krekhiv as a young teenager in 1904, professed perpetual vows in 1910, and was ordained a priest in 1915. Known as a gifted preacher with a golden tongue, he showed particular tenderness toward orphans and young people. In 1932 he became hegumen, or prior, of the Basilian monastery in Drohobych, where his joyful presence and care for the community left a lasting impression.

Yakym Senkivskyj, born on May 2, 1896, in Velyki Hayi near Ternopil, followed a somewhat different path to the same monastery. After theological studies in Lviv and priestly ordination in 1921, he earned a doctorate in theology at Innsbruck, Austria. He joined the Basilians in 1923, served in rural parishes, and ministered energetically to youth and children while organizing Eucharistic and Marian societies in Lviv. In 1939 he succeeded Father Severian as hegumen in Drohobych, where townspeople remembered his warm smile, humility, and ability to connect with people of all ages and backgrounds.

When Soviet forces annexed the region after the 1939 partition of Poland, the NKVD began suppressing religious life. On June 26, 1941, as German armies advanced, the secret police arrested both priests along with other monks in Drohobych. In the chaos of retreat, the Soviets murdered many prisoners. Father Severian’s mutilated body was later found in a mass grave near the prison, his chest carved with the sign of the cross by his torturers. Father Yakym, according to eyewitness accounts from fellow inmates, was boiled to death in a cauldron on June 29. Their deaths, though separated by only days, stand as powerful witnesses against totalitarian hatred of faith.

Pope John Paul II beatified both men on June 27, 2001, as part of a group of Ukrainian Greek Catholic martyrs. Today they are remembered on June 28 in the liturgical calendars of their church. In an era when believers faced systematic attempts to erase religion, Blessed Severian and Blessed Yakym exemplified steadfast service, pastoral love, and ultimate fidelity.

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

St. John the Baptist in the Wilderness
by Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1489

[Ante D. Luvian @uncle_deluge]

Nothing ever happens.

[Sea Beggar 🪢🏴‍☠️⚓ @KnotSeaworthy]

"If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger." -GW

[𒉭𓆏The Great Dane 𓆏𒉭 @thegreatdane269]

Mankind really mastered aesthetics in the Bronze Age.

[Ozymandias𓆏 @0zmnds]

Caspar David Friedrich

[chunguskitten @chunguskitten]

✢ All Saints

[Alexander's Cartographer @cartographer_s]

Natalya Mosyagina

[Lois❤️‍🔥 @LoisLacattolica]

Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, miserere nobis ❤️‍🔥