Ashamed of Christ and His Doctrine Before Men?
by
Thomas A. Droleskey
Americanism, the heresy that exalts the ethos of the founding of the United States of America as perfectly compatible with the Catholic Faith, has been the subject of numerous articles of mine in the past fifteen years. Chapter Two of Restoring Christ as the King of All Nations (Volume 1) contains a paragraph-by paragraph exegesis of Pope Leo XIII's Apostolical Letter, Testem Benevolentiae, written to the long-time Americanist Archbishop of Baltimore, James Cardinal Gibbons. Still and all, however, there are points about Americanism and its continued hold on the minds of even traditional Catholics that need to be made over and over and over again.
To wit, my last article, America's Concentration Camps, discussed the fact that it is not enough for us to have the Immemorial Mass of Tradition offered to us every day. We need to have the fullness of the Catholic Faith preached from the pulpit and taught in any institution that purports to be a Catholic school. Part of the fullness of the Catholic Faith is her Social Teaching concerning the necessity of all men and their nations subordinating themselves to the Social Reign of Christ the King. American Catholics of all stripes, whether traditionally-minded or not, deceive themselves badly if they think that the Protestant and Masonic foundations of the modern state, including the United States of America, do not pose problems for the good of souls. The false foundations of the modern state, including the United States of America, pose multiple, inter-related problems for the good of souls, which is why popes from Gregory XVI (1832-1846) through Pius XI (1922-1939) went to great lengths to insist upon the return of the state to the bosom of the Catholic Church.
Writing specifically about the nature of the Church-State relationship in the United States of America, Pope Leo XIII wrote the following in Longiqua Oceani on January 6, 1895:
Yet, though all this is true, it would be very erroneous to draw the conclusion that in America is to be sought the type of the most desirable status of the Church, or that it would be universally lawful or expedient for State and Church to be, as in America, dissevered and divorced. The fact that Catholicity with you is in good condition, nay, is even enjoying a prosperous growth, is by all means to be attributed to the fecundity with which God has endowed His Church, in virtue of which unless men or circumstances interfere, she spontaneously expands and propagates herself; but she would bring forth more abundant fruits if, in addition to liberty, she enjoyed the favor of the laws and the patronage of the public authority.
Pope Leo XIII was noting that the generally good condition of the Faith in this country at the end of the Nineteenth Century was not the result of the framework of the American Constitution. No, the good condition of the Faith in this country was the result of the grace of God and not the American constitutional system, pointing out that the Church would enjoy even greater fruit if she enjoyed the favor and the protection of the state. In other words, Pope Leo XIII was exhorting the Catholic bishops of this country to work for the Catholicization of this country.
The United States of America is founded in a specific and categorical rejection of a belief in the Incarnation of the Second Person of the Blessed Trinity made Man in Our Lady's virginal and immaculate womb as necessary for the right ordering of men and their nations. The American constitutional system is founded also in a complete indifference to the Deposit of Faith that Our Lord has entrusted solely in the Catholic Church as the ultimate focal point of administering justice in light of man's First Cause and his Last End. Moreover, the framers of the American constitution believed that man could resolve social problems by the use of his unaided reason, eschewing the necessity of a firm belief in, access to, and cooperation with sanctifying grace as the only means to pursue sanctity and to thus to live virtuously in the pursuit of the common temporal good with others in a particular country.
The manifest rejection of these truths by the Protestants and Freemasons who wrote the Constitution of the United States of America, which is as subject to deconstruction and misinterpretation as the Bible itself is to Protestants (who reject the visible, hierarchical Church Our Lord created upon the Rock of Peter, the Pope, as their spiritual guide concerning the meaning of Holy Writ), has produced all of the disorder we face in our society today. This country, far from being the protector of the "downtrodden" and the "upholder of human rights" has trampled on the rights of God and His Holy Church throughout its history.
After all, the revolutions that took place in Latin America in the immediate aftermath of the American Revolution each were directed by Masons and other anti-clericalists who attacked the Church with great glee while proclaiming themselves to be the "liberators" of the people. Indeed, the so-called "liberation" of Latin American peoples from Spanish control made it possible for American "missionaries" from Protestant sects to be sent to them to snatch them out of the bosom of the Catholic Church. No one in his right mind can claim that the founding of this country has been good for the salvation of souls anywhere in the world. This country continues to be what Father Lawrence C. Smith noted in an article last year following the state-sponsored murder of Mrs. Theresa Marie Schindler-Schiavo, "The Devils Playground."
American military and economic force has been used to impose regimes on Catholic peoples in order to advance the political and economic interest of American capitalist robber barons. President William McKinley saw the easy victory of the forces of the United States over Spain in the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a "sign" from God that this country had been called to "Christianize" "savage" peoples. As Paul Johnson points out in A History of the American People, McKinley said:
"I am not ashamed to tell you, Gentlemen, that I went down on my knees and prayed to Almighty God for light and guidance that one night. And one night later it came to me this way . . . There was nothing left for us to do but to take them all and to educate the Filipinos and uplift and civilize them all and to Christianize them, and by God's grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow men for whom Christ also died." Thus the United States acquired 7 million subjects, 85 percent of whom, as it happened, were already Christians, albeit lowly Roman Catholics."
The ignoramus McKinley did not realize that the Filipinos had been Christianized about 300 years before when Spanish priests converted them to the true Faith, Catholicism. Such ignorance, though, is simply par-for-the-course for American presidents, steeped in the mythologies of this nation's founding, which give rise to a nationalistic ethnocentrism that is deep in the heart of many, many Catholics even to this very day. You see, most of the military adventures that the United States has engaged in over its history has involved an effort to spread its false gospel of civil liberty, which has made possible in many instances the proselytizing of the false gospels of Protestantism and Freemasonry in Catholic countries which had theretofore rightly been closed to any such evil influences.
President Woodrow Wilson, a believer in the New World Order modeled after the "American" way, used American troops to intervene in Mexico to support and then to oppose various players in the criminal conspiracy known as Mexican Freemasonry in its attacks on the Catholic Church in Our Lady's country. When a Father Kelley, representing the American bishops, protested about the persecution of Catholics in Mexico in 1916, however, Wilson, who had not been averse to the use of American troops to support whichever Freemason he had favored in the previous three years, made the following response:
"Wilson replied [to a Father Kelley, who was a representative of James Cardinal Gibbons, the Archbishop of Baltimore, for whom Wilson had such contempt that he addressed him as Mister Gibbons]: 'I have no doubt but that the terrible things you mention have happened during the Mexican revolution. But terrible things happened also during the French revolution, perhaps more terrible things than have happened in Mexico. Nevertheless, out of that French revolution came the liberal ideas that have dominated in so many countries, including our own. I hope that out of the bloodletting in Mexico some such good yet may come.'
"Having thus instructed his caller in the benefits which must perforce accrue to mankind out of the systematic robbery, murder, torture and rape of people holding a proscribed religious conviction, the professor of politics [Wilson] suggested that Father Kelley visit Secretary of State Williams Jennings Bryan, who expressed his deepest sympathy. Obviously, the Wilson administration was committed to supporting the revolutionaries (Robert Leckie, Catholic and American, p. 274).
Would it have been un-American to criticize President Wilson at that time for sanctioning the persecution of believing Catholics? Wilson believed that any criticism of him was in se anti-American, which is why he had Congress pass two laws, the Sedition Act and the Espionage Act, to specifically forbid dissent against the needless American involvement in World War I. Wilson believed that his actions were beyond review, that it was a crime against the State to criticize him and his policies. As Senator Hiram Johnson of California noted sarcastically at the time, "It is now a crime for anyone to say anything or print anything against the government of the United States. The punishment for doing so is to go to jail." Sound familiar. It should. Even some jingoistic Catholics today fail to understand how this country seeks to exports its evils while masking its true intentions under the seemingly "benign" labels of "liberty" and "democracy."
Wilson's rather sanguine view of the slaughter of Catholics and his embrace of the wonders of the modern secular state were not without precedent in American history. Thomas Jefferson wrote in one of his last letters prior to his death in 1826 that it was necessary to rid this country of all vestiges of "monkish superstition." The Texas Declaration of Independence noted ion March 2,1836 that it was essential to keep Texas free of all of the interferences caused by "the priesthood." Its authors were referring to the influence of Spanish Catholicism in Texas that they deemed responsible for oppressing the indigenous people and keeping them mired in material poverty. Here are the exact words:
When the Federal Republican Constitution of their country, which they have sworn to support, no longer has a substantial existence, and the whole nature of their government has been forcibly changed, without their consent, from a restricted federative republic, composed of sovereign states, to a consolidated central military despotism, in which every interest is disregarded but that of the army and the priesthood, both the eternal enemies of civil liberty, the ever ready minions of power, and the usual instruments of tyrants.
Ah, yes, the "priesthood" is the "eternal" enemy of the false god of "civil liberty." Such is the true nature of the depth of hostility of alleged "patriots" to the Catholic Faith. These "patriots," whose alleged acts of "heroism" are extolled to this day in history books and in speeches, were demagogues and bigots of the first order, men who, whether or not they realized it, were doing the devil's bidding by seeking to separate man from the sacraments Our Lord instituted for his sanctification and his salvation.
To point any of this out is not to exhibit"hatred" for one's nation. It is, rather, to point out that one of the chief errors that has been made in Catholic schools at all levels of instruction in the United States of America throughout the history of this country is to accept uncritically the ethos of the American founding and of all of this country's military adventures as perfectly consonant with Catholicism and the good of souls. Remember, what was one of the first things that went into Iraq following our unjust invasion, based on lies and false premises, of that country in March of 2003: pills and devices meant to dispatch preborn children in the womb, that's what. And that evil policy was simply a continuation of all of the other evils that have been visited on other peoples in the name of the Protestant and Masonic imperialism that this country has spread with evangelical zeal in the past 230 years.
It is incumbent, therefore, for anyone engaged in the task of Catholic education, whether home-schooling parents or teachers in some Catholic school, to simply "turn the clock back" to the 1950s in the mistaken belief that "all will be well" if we teach what was taught then. What passed for American history and civics in the 1950s was Americanist propaganda. No, I am not condemning people who did not know any better. How could these people have known better. The great encyclicals of popes from the time of Gregory XVI through Pius XI were not presented to them (in most cases, noting that there were exceptions in some places at some times). Americanism reigned supreme in the minds and hearts of Catholics in the United States of America.
We know more now, however. We cannot continue to repeat the mistakes of the past. Even many of the legendary "independent" priests who fought for the Immemorial Mass of Tradition in the 1970s and 1980s were infected with Americanism and founded schools, for example, that continued to promote this manifest heresy. Meaning no disrespect to any of these truly great and courageous champions of the Mass, a traditional Catholic must be faithful to the immutable Social Teaching that Our Lord has entrusted to His true Church, not blindly supportive of the private views of priests whose minds were, unfortunately, poisoned by the popular mythologies associated with this country's founding and its subsequent history.
One such priest, whom we met in March of 2002, was mildly critical of my critique of "conservative" politicians in Christ or Chaos. When I reminded him that I was merely giving voice to the Social Teaching of the Church, he demurred, at least a little bit, and said, "Yes, I know. The Social Kingship of Jesus Christ." This priest knew the doctrine. He simply did not want to apply it to this country or to its allegedly "conservative" politicians.
The reaction of this priest was not atypical. A former (and future) presidential candidate, who never spoke of the Social Reign of Christ the King, said to me in December of 1998 after I had spoken at a function in suburban Virginia, "I knew where you were going with that: Father [Denis] Fahey and the Kingship of Christ." He knew the doctrine, too, and simply refused to speak about it in public.
Well, we need our young Catholics today to know the doctrine and to defend it with all of their might, ladies and gentlemen. True love of one's nation, which is indeed a duty of the natural law, is not nationalism, the heretical belief that a nation and the actions of its leaders are beyond criticism. True love of one's nation wills her good, the ultimate expression of which is her Catholicization. Pope Leo XIII noted this very clearly in Sapientiae Christianae, issued on January 10, 1890:
Now, if the natural law enjoins us to love devotedly and to defend the country in which we had birth, and in which we were brought up, so that every good citizen hesitates not to face death for his native land, very much more is it the urgent duty of Christians to be ever quickened by like feelings toward the Church. For the Church is the holy City of the living God, born of God Himself, and by Him built up and established. Upon this earth, indeed, she accomplishes her pilgrimage, but by instructing and guiding men she summons them to eternal happiness. We are bound, then, to love dearly the country whence we have received the means of enjoyment this mortal life affords, but we have a much more urgent obligation to love, with ardent love, the Church to which we owe the life of the soul, a life that will endure forever. For fitting it is to prefer the good of the soul to the well-being of the body, inasmuch as duties toward God are of a far more hallowed character than those toward men.
Moreover, if we would judge aright, the supernatural love for the Church and the natural love of our own country proceed from the same eternal principle, since God Himself is their Author and originating Cause. Consequently, it follows that between the duties they respectively enjoin, neither can come into collision with the other. We can, certainly, and should love ourselves, bear ourselves kindly toward our fellow men, nourish affection for the State and the governing powers; but at the same time we can and must cherish toward the Church a feeling of filial piety, and love God with the deepest love of which we are capable. The order of precedence of these duties is, however, at times, either under stress of public calamities, or through the perverse will of men, inverted. For, instances occur where the State seems to require from men as subjects one thing, and religion, from men as Christians, quite another; and this in reality without any other ground, than that the rulers of the State either hold the sacred power of the Church of no account, or endeavor to subject it to their own will. Hence arises a conflict, and an occasion, through such conflict, of virtue being put to the proof. The two powers are confronted and urge their behests in a contrary sense; to obey both is wholly impossible. No man can serve two masters, for to please the one amounts to contemning the other.
As to which should be preferred no one ought to balance for an instant. It is a high crime indeed to withdraw allegiance from God in order to please men, an act of consummate wickedness to break the laws of Jesus Christ, in order to yield obedience to earthly rulers, or, under pretext of keeping the civil law, to ignore the rights of the Church; "we ought to obey God rather than men." This answer, which of old Peter and the other Apostles were used to give the civil authorities who enjoined unrighteous things, we must, in like circumstances, give always and without hesitation. No better citizen is there, whether in time of peace or war, than the Christian who is mindful of his duty; but such a one should be ready to suffer all things, even death itself, rather than abandon the cause of God or of the Church.
Hence, they who blame, and call by the name of sedition, this steadfastness of attitude in the choice of duty have not rightly apprehended the force and nature of true law. We are speaking of matters widely known, and which We have before now more than once fully explained. Law is of its very essence a mandate of right reason, proclaimed by a properly constituted authority, for the common good. But true and legitimate authority is void of sanction, unless it proceed from God, the supreme Ruler and Lord of all. The Almighty alone can commit power to a man over his fellow men; nor may that be accounted as right reason which is in disaccord with truth and with divine reason; nor that held to be true good which is repugnant to the supreme and unchangeable good, or that wrests aside and draws away the wills of men from the charity of God.
Hallowed, therefore, in the minds of Christians is the very idea of public authority, in which they recognize some likeness and symbol as it were of the Divine Majesty, even when it is exercised by one unworthy. A just and due reverence to the laws abides in them, not from force and threats, but from a consciousness of duty; "for God hath not given us the spirit of fear."
But, if the laws of the State are manifestly at variance with the divine law, containing enactments hurtful to the Church, or conveying injunctions adverse to the duties imposed by religion, or if they violate in the person of the supreme Pontiff the authority of Jesus Christ, then, truly, to resist becomes a positive duty, to obey, a crime; a crime, moreover, combined with misdemeanor against the State itself, inasmuch as every offense leveled against religion is also a sin against the State. Here anew it becomes evident how unjust is the reproach of sedition; for the obedience due to rulers and legislators is not refused, but there is a deviation from their will in those precepts only which they have no power to enjoin. Commands that are issued adversely to the honor due to God, and hence are beyond the scope of justice, must be looked upon as anything rather than laws. You are fully aware, venerable brothers, that this is the very contention of the Apostle St. Paul, who, in writing to Titus, after reminding Christians that they are "to be subject to princes and powers, and to obey at a word," at once adds: "And to be ready to every good work." Thereby he openly declares that, if laws of men contain injunctions contrary to the eternal law of God, it is right not to obey them. In like manner, the Prince of the Apostles gave this courageous and sublime answer to those who would have deprived him of the liberty of preaching the Gospel: "If it be just in the sight of God to hear you rather than God, judge ye, for we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard."
Wherefore, to love both countries, that of earth below and that of heaven above, yet in such mode that the love of our heavenly surpass the love of our earthly home, and that human laws be never set above the divine law, is the essential duty of Christians, and the fountainhead, so to say, from which all other duties spring. The Redeemer of mankind of Himself has said: "For this was I born, and for this came I into the world, that I should give testimony to the truth." In like manner: "I am come to cast fire upon earth, and what will I but that it be kindled?'' In the knowledge of this truth, which constitutes the highest perfection of the mind; in divine charity which, in like manner, completes the will, all Christian life and liberty abide. This noble patrimony of truth and charity entrusted by Jesus Christ to the Church she defends and maintains ever with untiring endeavor and watchfulness.
We must love our country, the United States of America, after we love God as He has revealed Himself through His true Church. We must, for love of God and our country, seek to plant the seeds of her Catholicization. We have for far too long "tolerated" the heresy of Americanism in our Catholic parishes and schools. There can be no further toleration of an error that distorts Catholic teaching on patriotism and makes it the ready tool of nationalists intent on violating the First Commandment by worshiping at the altar of the demigods of Modernity in the world and Modernism in the Church. Each and every single one of us must realize that every country in the world, including our own, has been devastated by the effects of the Protestant Revolt and the subsequent rise of Freemasonry (as well as the rise of a host of inter-related ideologies and philosophies that proceed from a rejection of the Incarnation and the Deposit of Faith as necessary in the lives of men and their nations).
Unlike our own country, which has always been Protestant and Masonic, Scotland,a thoroughly Protestant and Masonic land for the past 472 years, was once a bastion of Catholicism. Pope Leo XIII noted with sadness the effects of the Protestant Revolt on this once proud Catholic country. Writing in Caritatis Studium, July 25, 1898, the Holy Father explained:
The terrible storm which swept over the Church in the sixteenth century, deprived the vast majority of the Scottish people, as well as many other peoples of Europe, of that Catholic Faith which they had gloriously held for over one thousand years. It is most pleasing to Us to revert to the great achievements of your forefathers on behalf of Catholicism, and also to allude to some of those, and they are many, to whose virtue and illustrious deeds Scotland owes so much of her renown. Surely your fellow-countrymen will not take it ill that We should again remind them of what they owe to the Catholic Church and to the Apostolic See. We speak of what you already know. As your ancient Annals relate, St. Ninian, a countryman of yours, was so inflamed with the desire of greater spiritual progress by the reading of Holy Writ, that he exclaimed: "I shall rise and go over sea and land, seeking that truth which my soul loveth. But is so much trouble needful? Was it not said to Peter: 'Thou are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it?' Therefore in the faith of Peter there is nothing wanting, nothing obscure, nothing imperfect, nothing against which evil doctrines and pernicious views can prevail, after the manner of the gates of hell. And where is the faith of Peter, but in the See of Peter? Thither, thither I must repair, that going forth from my country, from my kindred, and from my father's house, I may see in the land of the Vision the will of the Lord and be protected by His Temple." (Ex Hist. Vitae S. Niniani a S. Aelredo Ab. cons.) Hence, full of reverence he hastened to Rome, and when at the Tomb of the Apostles he had imbibed in abundance Catholic truth at its very source and fountainhead, by command of the Supreme Pontiff he returned home, preached the true Roman faith to his fellow-countrymen, and founded the Church of Gallowway about two hundred years before St. Augustine landed in England. This was the faith of St. Columba; this was the faith kept so religiously and preached so zealously by the monks of old, whose chief centre, lona, was rendered famous by their eminent virtues. Need We mention Queen Margaret, a light and ornament not only of Scotland, but of the whole of Christendom, who, though she occupied the most exalted position in point of worldly dignity, sought only in her whole life things eternal and divine, and thus spread throughout the Church the luster of her virtues? There can be no doubt she owed this her eminent sanctity to the influence and guidance of the Catholic Faith. And did not the power and constancy of the Catholic faith give to Wallace and Bruce, the two great heroes of your race, their indomitable courage in defence of their country? We say nothing of the immense number of those who achieved so much for the commonwealth, and who belong to that progeny which the Catholic Church has never ceased to bring forth. We say nothing of the advantages which your nation has derived from her influence. It is undeniable that it was through her wisdom and authority that those famous seats of learning were opened at St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Aberdeen, and that your judicial system was drawn up and adopted. Hence We can well understand why Scotland has been honoured by the title of "Special Daughter of the Holy See."
We know that many of the Scottish people, who do not agree with us in faith, sincerely love the name of Christ, and strive to ascertain His doctrine and to imitate His most holy example. But how can they obtain what they are striving for, if they do not allow themselves to be taught heavenly things in the way prescribed by Jesus Christ Himself; if they do not give heed to the Church whose precepts they are commanded to obey by the Author of faith as if they were His own: "He who heareth you heareth me; he who despiseth you despiseth me"; if they do not seek the nourishment of their souls, and the sustenance of all virtue, from him whom the Supreme Pastor of souls made His vicegerent, to whom He confided the care of the universal Church? In the meantime We are resolved not to fail in doing Our share, and especially to be constant in fervent prayer, that God may move their minds to what is good, and vouchsafe to impart to them the most powerful impulses of His grace. May the Divine clemency, thus earnestly implored by Us, grant to the Church that supreme consolation of speedily embracing the whole Scottish people, restored to the faith of their forefathers "in spirit and in truth." What incalculable blessings would not accrue to them, if they were once more united to us? Perfect and absolute truth would everywhere shine forth, together with the inestimable gifts which were forfeited by separation. There is one amongst all others, the loss of which is more deplorable than words can express; We allude to the most holy Sacrifice in which Jesus Christ, both Priest and Victim, daily offers Himself to His Father, through the ministry of His priests on earth. By virtue of this Sacrifice the infinite merits of Christ, gained by His Precious Blood shed once upon the Cross for the salvation of men, are applied to our souls. This belief prevailed among the Scottish people in St. Columba's day and in subsequent ages, when your grand and majestic cathedrals were raised throughout the land, which still testify to the art and piety of your ancestors.
What applied to Scotland 108 years ago applies to our own country today. Every Protestant citizen of the United States has Catholic ancestors. We cannot be Catholics in name only, content just to have to the Mass of Tradition and to be virtual Protestants or Freemasons in spirit outside of the Mass. We must submit ourselves to the immutable Social Teaching of the Church and seek to do in the Third Millennium what the Apostles starting doing on Pentecost Sunday: the slow, methodical work of winning souls for Our Lord and His true Church, praying and fasting and the sacrifices we make in this regard will bear fruit in a new Christendom once Russia is consecrated to Our Lady's Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart by a pope with all of the world's bishops.
As Pope Leo XIII said in Sapientiae Christianae:
The chief elements of this duty consist in professing openly and unflinchingly the Catholic doctrine, and in propagating it to the utmost of our power. For, as is often said, with the greatest truth, there is nothing so hurtful to Christian wisdom as that it should not be known, since it possesses, when loyally received, inherent power to drive away error. So soon as Catholic truth is apprehended by a simple and unprejudiced soul, reason yields assent.
Yes, we must profess openly and unflinchingly the Catholic doctrine, and in propagating it to the utmost of our power. This is not an opinion. This is our duty. And it is out duty to teach our children to be openly and unflinchingly Catholic at all times, especially as we teach them to avoid at all costs the horrors of our popular culture.
Woe to us if we are ever ashamed of Our Lord any bit of His doctrine before men:
For he that shall be ashamed of me, and of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation: the Son of man also will be ashamed of him, when he shall come in the glory of his Father with the holy angels. (Mk. 8: 38)
Pope Pius XI put it this way in Quas Primas:
It would be the duty of Catholics to do all they can to bring about this happy result. Many of these, however, have neither the station in society nor the authority which should belong to those who bear the torch of truth. This state of things may perhaps be attributed to a certain slowness and timidity in good people, who are reluctant to engage in conflict or oppose but a weak resistance; thus the enemies of the Church become bolder in their attacks. But if the faithful were generally to understand that it behooves them ever to fight courageously under the banner of Christ their King, then, fired with apostolic zeal, they would strive to win over to their Lord those hearts that are bitter and estranged from him, and would valiantly defend his rights.
We have work to do! Let us do it out of true love for Christ the King and Mary our Immaculate Queen.
Vivat Christus Rex!
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
Saint Joseph, pray for us.
Saints Peter and Paul, pray for us.
Saint John of Matha, pray for us.
Saint Scholastica, pray for us.
Saint Benedict, pray for us.
Saint Cyril of Alexandria, pray for us.
Saint Apollinaris, pray for us.
Saint Louis IX, pray for us.
Saint Henry, pray for us.
Saint Canute, pray for us.
Saint Margaret of Scotland, pray for us.
Saint Brigid of Kildare, pray for us.
Saint Catherine of Sweden, pray for us.
Saint Stephen of Hungary, pray for us.
Saint Edward the Confessor, pray for us.
Saint Philomena, pray for us.
The North American Martyrs, pray for us.
Blessed Miguel Augustin Pro, pray for us.
Blessed Jacinta, pray for us.
Blessed Francisco, pray for us.
Sister Lucia, pray for us.
