Today is the feast of Saint Michael de Sanctis, also known as St. Michael of the Saints, a Spanish Discalced Trinitarian priest, the patron of cancer patients. Michael Argemir was born on September 29, 1591 at Vic, Catalonia, Spain. At age 6, he told his parents that he planned to become a monk and began modeling his life after Saint Francis of Assisi. Michael’s parents died when he was about ten years old. He then served as an apprentice with a local merchant. During this apprenticeship, he continued his fervent devotion to the Lord, especially to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. At the age of 12, he joined the Trinitarian Friars at Barcelona, taking his vows at St. Lambert’s monastery in Saragosa four years later. Shortly afterwards, Michael expressed a desire to join the reformed group of Trinitarians and was given permission to do so. He went to the Novitiate at Madrid and, after studies at Seville and Salamanca, he was ordained a priest. Twice he served as Superior of the hou
Apparantly she's been irreverantly making the Sign of the Cross while performing on stage too....and it had the rather adverse effect of a priest who heard of it getting riled up and staging a bomb hoax to ensure that one of her concerts in France, couldn't go ahead!
ReplyDeleteI don't agree with the actions of the priest either, but I can understand his anger!
Ah! At last! I get to see what it looks like. Ordinarily, I simply won't click on news links about Madonna. I don't want Yahoo tallying it up, thinking that she's more important to our world than she is.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, she just looks kind of silly. Just another aging Baby Boomer with Issues about the Church.
I, too, understand the anger. But as this is the ONLY part of Madonna's image that she has not changed over the years, there's obviously a payoff for her in mocking the Catholic Church. The best course, then, is to probably ignore her!