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Among the daughters of St. Benedict is one Dolores Hart, a former film and stage actress who once basked in Hollywood limelight of the late 50’s and early 60’s.

April 16: Bernadette Soubirous, baptized Marie Bernarde, was the oldest of a family of six children and was born and lived in Lourdes, a small town in the French Pyrennes.

A little known story, though no less edifying is that of a little Chinese girl-martyr at the time when China had just been run over by the Communists.

Before the apparitions of Our Lady in 1917, at Cova da Iria, Fatima, Lucia dos Santos and her cousins, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, had three visions of the Angel of Portugal.

Although evidence of the Shroud’s existence can be traced back to the early days of the Church, it did not enter in the historical cognizance until 1453.