ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 24th of July WELCOME! SAINT CHRISTINE THE ASTONISHING The learned and pious Cardinal [ Saint Robert Bellarmine ] related the history of Saint Christine the Admirable [the Astonishing], who lived in Belgium at the close of the twelfth century, and whose body is preserved today in St Trond, in the church of the Redemptorist Fathers. The Life of this illustrious virgin was, he says, written by Thomas de Cantimpre, a Religious of the Order of Saint Dominic , an author worthy of credit and contemporary with the saint. Cardinal James de Vitry, in the preface to the Life of Maria d’Ognies, speaks of a great number of holy women and illustrious virgins; but the one whom he admires above all others is Saint Christine, of whom he relates the most wonderful deeds. SHE DIED AT THE AGE OF THIRTY-TWO This servant of God, having passed the first years of her life in humility and patience, died at the age of thirty-two. When she was ab...