August Retreat: Greater Love Than This: Two 20th Century Martyrs

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August Retreat: Greater Love Than This: Two 20th Century Martyrs

August Retreat: Greater Love Than This: Two 20th Century Martyrs

    facilitated by Sister Sarah O’Malley, OSB

Two martyrs who sacrificed their lives in solidarity with their people can teach us how to live out God’s mercy and love.

Saturday, August 20, 2016, 9:00 a.m. to noon

St. Scholastica Monastery, 1001 Kenwood Avenue, Duluth, Minnesota

Please call 218-723-6555 for reservations                       Free-will Offering

Edith Stein

 

Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) was a philosopher, Jewish Christian, and Carmelite martyr, who died in Auschwitz in 1942. She consciously identified her sufferings with the Cross of Christ.

  

  

  

  

  

Oscar Romero

Oscar Romero was the Archbishop of San Salvador who denounced the persecution of priests and nuns who had worked on behalf of the poor. He was assassinated in 1980 while offering Mass. “If they kill me, I shall arise again in the Salvadoran people.”  

  

  

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

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