Mariaagnesi-fangirl-blog - The Farmer's Daughter

St. Maria Goretti (1890–1902) was born in Italy to a humble farming family. Her father died from malaria when she was 9, leaving the family destitute. Her mother and older siblings worked in the fields while Maria managed the household chores and cared for her younger siblings. One summer day while the family was in the fields, Maria was attacked by their neighbor, a 19-year-old boy named Alessandro, who attempted to rape her. Maria wasn’t yet 12 years old. She fought back, yelling to him that it was a sin and that he would go to hell for his actions. In a rage over her refusal, Alessandro stabbed Maria fourteen times. Doctors operated to save her life, without anesthesia, and Maria lingered for two days after the attack. She verbally forgave Alessandro for his crime, offered her suffering to God, and died while holding a crucifix. Alessandro went to prison for murder, full of hardness of heart. One day in prison Maria appeared to him in a dream. She placed 14 white lilies, one at a time, into his hands; one for each of the times he stabbed her. This stunning experience of forgivness brought him to repentance, and Alessandro was converted. Upon leaving prison he sought reconciliation with Maria’s mother and with the Church. Alessandro called Maria “his little saint” and prayed to her daily. He also attended her canonization Mass in 1950. Alessandro joined the Franciscans as a lay brother until his death in 1970. St. Maria Goretti is the patron saint of children, youth, young girls, the poor, martyrs, purity, poverty, chastity, rape victims, and forgiveness. Her feast day is July 6th.

Tesla was displaying the first alternating current motors that we still use today for power, and was also doing wizardry lighting wireless light bulbs like a fucking Jedi. The concept was so far ahead of its time that the people in the auditorium literally started panicking and running out the doors because they thought he was doing the devil's work. His demonstrations would introduce the basic principles to the wireless transmission of energy we all use today in our everyday lives.

Even the Wikipedia page on the Catholic relationship with abortion notes that most pro-choice Catholics are those who barely/never attend Mass, while most pro-life Catholics are the ones who regularly show up.

there was a really annoying post on a “Xtains don’t interact” blog (cause you know how people just hate using the word Christ) talking about how “Christians just can’t understand Hallelujah because it’s a jewish song” and “the context and the jewish relationship with God prevent Christians from fully understanding cause they can’t obviously have struggles with their relationship with God cause they blindly follow him” and a whole other bunch of crap.

And like, I’m only saying this cause people have such a poor understanding of actual, legitamite and Holy Christian theology that they can’t even comprehend that we have a complex relationship with God where we question things and doubt and fear.

Controversially, Christian people have struggled and fought from the very start to exist and continue to suffer and die for their faith.

I’m ranting but it’s just sad. Maybe actually bother to learn something about Christianity (or Catholicism since I am coming from a Catholic point of view) because a whole bunch of what people say and think is wrong because every one has a watered down, secularized and poorly represented version of Christians.

Damn.

First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, at home with her daughter Alena (1965).

Relatable

Europa’s Stunning Surface (desktop/laptop) Click the image to download the correct size for your desktop or laptop in high resolution

The fact that we tell students “The formula for finding the area of a circle from its diameter is A=¼*pi*D^2″ instead of telling them “Just divide the diameter by 2 and use pi*R^2″ is homophobic

The Radioactive Man Who Returned To Fukushima To Feed The Animals That Everyone Else Left Behind

Naoto Matsumura is the only human brave enough to live in Fukushima’s 12.5-mile exclusion zone

He fled at first but returned to take care of the animals that were left behind

He returned for his own animals at first, but realized that so many more needed his help, too

Matsumura, who is 55 years old, knows that the radiation is harmful, but he “refuses to worry about it”

“They also told me that I wouldn’t get sick for 30 or 40 years. I’ll most likely be dead by then anyway, so I couldn’t care less”

Matsumura discovered that thousands of cows had died locked in barns

He also freed many animals that had been left chained up by their owners

Many of them now rely on him for food

The government has forbidden him from staying, but that doesn’t stop him either

He started in 2011 and is still going strong 4 years later

He relies solely on donations from supporters to work with and feed the animals

His supporters are calling him the ‘guardian of Fukushima’s animals’

The man clearly has a sense of humor as well

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