These Stone Walls: Saints and Sacrifices:

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Saints and Sacrifices Revisited My posts over the last few weeks have been some of the longest I have written for These Stone Walls.  I thank readers for their forbearance and patience, and especially for sticking with these long but important posts. But I think you need a break, and I cannot look the other way while something very important for These Stone Walls is occurring on the Church calendar. Though August 14 is a Sunday this year, and the Sunday celebration takes precedence, it is also the Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe, the inspiration behind These Stone Walls.  August 9th is the Feast of St. Theresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as Edith Stein, and a saint for whom I have great personal devotion.  They died one year apart in prison at Auschwitz, but that is not the end of their story.  It’s a story of the triumph of grace over great evil.  Please read (or re-read) “Saints and Sacrifices;  Maximilian Kolbe and Edith Stein at Auschwitz.”

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