Saints & Heroes

This text is taken from an informal lecture Professor Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira gave on July 16, 1970. It has been translated and adapted for publication without his revision. –Ed.

The thought of Heaven is like a beacon of hope that illuminates the whole Christian life. It reminds us of our ultimate end and gives us our bearings it reach it!

Modern schools have, for the most part, lost sight of the true finality of education. Let us look back then, to a time when saints formed children.

Reflection on Saint Gabriel and the Annunciation. It discusses both since the feast of Saint Gabriel the Archangel is on March 24th, the vigil of the Annunciation.

Edifying examples the child seers practiced because of their deep understanding of the urgent necessity of acts of reparation to appease Divine Justice.