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Our Blessed Lady has come to me; she has smiled at me,’ Thérèse marveled, as we mark the centenary of her canonization.

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This is the Renaissance painter Michelangelo ... as the painter did while drawing it. Mary Magdalene’s importance in the Gospels chiefly stems from the fact that she was a witness to both Jesus’ ...

MANILA, Philippines — Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Dec. 17, 1936, and died of a stroke at his official home at the Domus Sanctae Marthae in the Vatican.