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Learn about the process of canonization in Making Saints by Kenneth Woodward, the religion editor of Newsweek. Click on the image above to order.
Read a collection of essays offering new insights into 17 saints in A Tremor of Bliss: Contemporary Writers on the Saints, edited by Paul Elie. Click on the image above to order.
Heroic virtue is not the exclusive domain of the past. Red about modern-day witnesses to the faith in Catholic Martyrs of the Twentieth Century by Robert Royal. Click on the image above to order.
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Lady Queen of the Angels image copyright ©1999 The National Gallery of Art September 4 On September 4, 1781, a multicultural band of colonists arrived at the present-day site of downtown Los Angeles from the area surrounding Mission San Gabriel. There, Mass was celebrated in honor of the feast of the day and the new foundation was named accordingly: El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora, la Reina de Los Angeles, or "The City of Our Lady, Queen of the Angels." Devotion to Mary under this title was popular with the Franciscans because the mother church of the order in Assisi has the same name. Later an adobe church was built on this spot under the same title, which remains the first church of the city, also known as The Plaza Church, or La Placita. Tribute is paid to the patroness of the city in the City seal, which contains symbols of Spain, Mexico, California and the United States, all encircled by a rosary.
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