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Pro-life Catholics gathered thousands of roses outside the U.S. Capitol on Sunday, for the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Each rose represented a person praying and fasting, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s conversion on the issue of abortion. Our Lady of Guadalupe is the patroness of the unborn. Organizers of the prayer campaign plan to send 100 roses to Pelosi each day.
The archbishop of San Francisco has agreed to reschedule a visit to a local parish, at the pastor’s request. The archbishop recently disclosed that he has not received a COVID-19 vaccination. Parish policy requires priests to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 to celebrate Mass.
The pope has approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Marie Rivier. The French nun founded a religious congregation amid the French Revolution. The miracle involved the healing of a newborn baby in the Philippines. Blessed Rivier can now be canonized as a saint in the Catholic Church.
Today the Church honors Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli. Virginia was born in Italy in 1587.