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Lights of the World: Josephine Bakhita, 2/8

Lights of the World is TLC‘s occasional series of vignettes about saints who were newly added to Lesser Feasts & Fasts 2018.

March 26: Harriet Monsell, Monastic, 1883

She was nobody’s idea of a typical nun.

Lights of the World: Sarah, Theodora, Syncletica: 1/5

The prevalence of women in the desert hermitages and communities that sprung up in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria in the fourth century is sometimes obscured by the attention that male monastics received in subsequent devotional and historical inquiry.

St. Jane de Chantal and St. Francis de Sales, 12/12

Lights of the World Lights of the World is TLC's occasional series of vignettes about saints who were newly added to Lesser Feasts & Fasts...

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