This blog site is devoted to the defence of the Holy Roman Catholic Church, by exposing the false and invalid Second Vatican Council as a non-Catholic heretical Council. We have zeroed in on the one piece of arsenal which most of us have overlooked and failed to employ over these past 40 years since the Vatican II sect was installed in Rome. The one weapon that strikes more terror into the enemies of the Church is the Bulla of Pope Pius II, Execrabilis, which he issued on February 15th, 1460.
Saint Apollonia was a Christian martyr who suffered in Alexandria, Egypt, during the violent persecution of Christians in the year 249 AD, under Emperor Decius. She is especially venerated as the patron saint of dentists and those suffering from toothaches, owing to the nature of her martyrdom.
Life and Martyrdom
During a brutal uprising against Christians in Alexandria,
the pagan mobs captured many faithful and subjected them to cruel
torments. Among them was Apollonia, an elderly Christian virgin who had dedicated her life to God. The persecutors, filled with hatred for the Faith, shattered her teeth with stones and forcibly extracted others as a form of torment.
After enduring this torture, she was given a terrible choice: renounce Christ or be burned alive. Rather than betray her Lord, Saint Apollonia willingly leapt into the flames, embracing martyrdom with unshakable faith. Witnesses were astounded by her courage and devotion.
Saint Apollonia became one of the most invoked saints for those suffering from toothaches and dental ailments. In sacred art, she is often depicted:
Holding a golden tooth or a pair of pincers with a tooth in them, symbolizing her suffering.
The Amazing Story of the Hiroshima Eight who survived the dropping of the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima because we were living the message of Fatima.We lived and prayed the Rosary daily in that home, said Father Schiffer who died on March 27, 1982 — 37 years after that eventful day.
Early
on August 6, 1945, a lone American B-29 Superfortress bomber circled in
a vividly blue sky over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The
unsuspecting inhabitants on the ground barely glanced at the plane. They
were unaware of the deadly payload it was about to unleash on them,
ushering in the atomic age with unimaginable death and destruction.
As one single bomb neared the ground, a city died in an instant.
Houses crumbled, people evaporated, an immense ball of fire shot
skywards, and a terrible wave of super-heated gas bulged out from ground
zero, flattening buildings for miles.
Amongst the unsuspecting inhabitants of Hiroshima was Fr. Schiffer, a
Jesuit missionary assisting the many Catholics of that city. On the
morning of August 6, 1945, he had just finished Mass and sat down at the
breakfast table.
As he plunged his spoon into a freshly sliced
grapefruit, there was a bright flash of light. His first thought was
that a fuel tanker had exploded in the harbor, as Hiroshima was a major
port where the Japanese refueled their submarines.
Then, in the words of
Fr. Schiffer: “Suddenly, a terrible explosion filled the air with one
bursting thunder stroke. An invisible force lifted me from the chair,
hurled me through the air, shook me, battered me, whirled me round and
round like a leaf in a gust of autumn wind.”
Next thing he remembered
was that he opened his eyes and found himself on the ground. He looked
around, and saw there was nothing left in any direction: the railroad
station and buildings in all directions were gone. Yet, the only harm to
him was a few slight cuts in the back of his neck form shards of grass.
As far as he could tell, there was nothing else physically wrong with
him.
The
small community of Jesuits to whichFr. Schiffer belonged lived in a
house near the parish church, situated only eight blocks from the center
of the blast.
When Hiroshima was destroyed by the atomic bomb, all
eight members of the small Jesuit community escaped unscathed, while
every other person within a radius of one-and-a-half kilometers from
ground zero died immediately. The house where the Jesuits lived was
still standing, while buildings in every direction from it were leveled.
Father Hubert Schiffer was 30 years old when the atomic bomb exploded
right over his head at Hiroshima. He not only survived, but also lived a
healthy life for another 33 years!
How did this group of men survive a nuclear blast that killed
everyone else, even people over ten times further away from the blast?
It is absolutely unexplainable by scientific means. An interesting
detail is that this group of Catholic clergy was made up of ardent
enthusiasts of the Message of Fatima. They lived the Message. Was their
fidelity to Our Lady rewarded by this stupendous miracle of their
survival?
Even more astonishing is that the story was to be repeated a few days
later at Nagasaki, the second Japanese city to be hit by an atomic
bomb. In both Hiroshima and Nagasaki the survivors were Catholic
religious.
Most other buildings were leveled to the ground, even at 3
times the distance, but in both cases their houses stood – even with
some windows intact! All other people, bar a handful of scattered
mutilated survivors, even at thrice the distance from the explosion,
died instantly. Those within a radius ten times the distance of the
Jesuits from the explosion were exposed to fierce radiation and died
within days.
After the American conquest of Japan, U.S. army doctors explained to
Fr. Schiffer that his body would soon begin to deteriorate because of
the radiation. To the doctors’ amazement, Fr. Schiffer’s body showed no
radiation or ill effects from the bomb. All who were at this range from
the epicenter should have received enough radiation to be dead within a
matter of minutes. Scientists examined the group of Hiroshima Jesuits
over 200 times during the next 30 years and no ill effects were ever
found.
“We
believe that we survived because we were living the message of Fatima.
We lived and prayed the Rosary daily
in that house.” Fr. Schiffer feels that he received a protective shield
from the Blessed Virgin, which protected him from all radiation and ill
effects.
Fr. Schiffer attributes this to his devotion to Our Lady, and
his daily Fatima Rosary: “In that house the Holy Rosary was recited
together every day.” Secular scientists are dumbfounded and incredulous
at his explanation. They are sure there is some ‘real’ explanation.
However, over 60 years later the scientists still have not been able to
explain it.
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This is the only actual film footage of the bombing of Hiroshima that was taken. It was made by scientist Harold Agnew, who took a 16mm film camera on the instrumentation airplane (The Great Artiste) that accompanied the Enola Gay on the Hiroshima mission. It is brief, and silent.
The Infant of Prague is a 16th-century wax-coated wooden statue of the
Child Jesus, believed to have originated in Spain and brought to Prague
by a princess. It was donated to the Carmelite friars in 1628, and over
the years, it has become a symbol of devotion, with many claiming
miraculous blessings through its intercession
Prayer to the Infant of Prague
O merciful Infant Jesus! I know of Thy miraculous deeds for the sick ... In view of the innumerable graces and cures granted ... through the veneration of Thy Holy Infancy ... particularly in the statue of Prague ... I exclaim with the greatest assurance: O most loving Infant Jesus, Thou canst cure me is Thou wilt! Extend Thy holy hand and by Thy power take away all pain and infirmity.
In galaxies similar to our Milky Way Galaxy, a star will explode every 26 years or so.a These explosions, called supernovas,
produce gas and dust that expand outward thousands of miles per second.
With radio telescopes, these remnants in our galaxy should be visible
for a million years. However, only about 7,000 years’ worth of supernova
debris are seen.b So, the Milky Way looks young.
Figure 35: The Crab Nebula. In A.D. 1054, Chinese observers (and perhaps
Anasazi Indians in New Mexico and Arizona) witnessed and described a
supernova. It was visible in daylight for 23 days and briefly was as
bright as a full moon. Today, remnants from that explosion comprise the
Crab Nebula.
Thanks to radio telescopes, most of these remnants should be visible for
a million years. At the rate supernovas are occurring in galaxies like
ours, we have only about 7,000 years’ worth of remnants.
00:00 The First Noel
02:16 Hark, The Herald Angels Sing
05:08 God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
08:06 White Christmas
10:55 Good King Wenceslas
13:56 O Holy Night
16:51 Adeste Fideles
19:43 Joy To The World
22:41 Silent Night, Holy Night
25:17 O Tannenbaum
28:30 Midnight Waltz
31:21 Nazareth
34:20 O Little Town of Bethlehem
37:03 The Skaters' Waltz
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A True story about a Marine who encountered an Angel in Korea
Prayer to St. Michael:
Michael, Michael of the morning, Fresh chord of Heaven adorning, Keep me safe today, And in time of temptation, Drive the Devil away. ____________________