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2007	2006	2005	2004
2003	2002	2001	2000
1999	1998	1997	1996

Fundamental Texts

Version Française	Deutsche Fassung	En español
Versió catalana	In italiano	In het Nederlands

Year 2007

Date	Life of	Subject
December 25 2007	Blessed Father Tansi	Priestly life - Monastic life - Chastity before marriage - Obscurity of faith
November 21 2007	Franz Stock	Prison chaplain - Assistance to death row prisoners - Barbed - Wire seminary
October 15 2007	Cardinal Raphael Merry del Val	Modernism - Humility
September 12 2007	Jerome Lejeune	Down's Syndrome - Life - Abortion
August 6 2007	Blessed Marie of Jesus Deluil-Martiny	Reparation - Satisfaction - Victim - Spiritual help to priests
June 29 2007	Sister Marie of the Trinity	The little way of Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus - Lupus
May 27 2007	Bishop Boleslas Sloskans	Providence - Eucharist - Prayer
April 25 2007	Saint Francis Xavier	Mission - Salvation of souls
March 21 2007	Blessed Mary of the Passion (Helene de Chappotin)	Franciscan Missionaries of Mary - Mission
February 11 2007	Bishop Clemens August Von Galen	Euthanasia - Nazism - Courage of faith
January 6 2007	Uganda Martyrs	Father Lourdel. Uganda - Martyrdom - Homosexuality - AIDS

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Year 2006

Date	Life of	Subject
December 8 2006	Miracle of Calanda - Miguel Juan Pellicer	Miracle - Our Lady of the Pillar - «del Pilar» - Surnatural order
November 1 2006	Alfred Allen Curtis	Conversion - Church of Christ - Eucharistic adoration - Union with Christ - Humility
September 23 2006	Saint Albert Hurtado	Love - Social action - Eternity
August 20 2006	Our Lady of Fatima. Lucia- Jacinta- Francisco	Conversion - Heaven - Sacrifices - Hell - Rosary - Immaculate Heart of Mary
July 16 2006	Blessed Sister Zdenka (Cecilia Schelling)	Martyrdom - Communist prison - Truth
June 11 2006	Blessed Charles I of Austria	Freemasonry - War and peace - Austro - Hungarian Empire
May 13 2006	Blessed Anne-Marie Javouhey	Slavery - Dignity of human person - Evangelizatio
April 9 2006	Blessed Bronislaw Markiewicz	Catechesis - Exercises of Saint Ignatius - Humiliations - Michaëlites
March 1 2006	Blessed Ignatius Maloyan	Armenians - Turkey - Faith - Martyrdom - Eucharist
January 25 2006	Blessed Charles de Foucauld	Conversion - Eucharist - Christian life in Muslim country

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Year 2005

Date	Life of	Subject
December 25 2005	Baudouin I	Spiritual life - Abortion - Conscience
November 18 2005	Alessandra di Rudini	Mother Mary of Jesus. Skepticism - Faith and reason - Carmel du Reposoir
October 15 2005	Saint Françoise de Sales Aviat	Secularism - Prayer - Education
September 8 2005	Blessed Marie-Joseph Cassant	Prayer - Mental prayer - Frequent Confession - Eucharist - Trappist
July 31 2005	Blessed Maurice Tornay	Sin - Mission - Tibet
June 29 2005	Blessed Mary-Theresa Scherer	Secularism - Works of charity - Eucharist
May 24 2005	Saint Albert Chmielowski	Spiritism - Art - The poor
April 21 2005	Father Marie-Eugene	Mental prayer - Notre - Dame de Vie (Our Lady of Life) - Secular Institutes - Atheism - Evangelization
March 17 2005	La Salette - Darreberg	Our Lady of La Salette - Sin - Second and Third Commandments - Rosary
February 9 2005	Blessed Michel Rua	Don Bosco - Salesiens - Education
January 4 2005	Blessed Leonid Feodorov	Russian Greek Catholics - Ecumenism - Bolshevik persecution

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Year 2004

Date	Life of	Subject
December 1 2004	Blessed Francisco Castelló Aleu	Exercises of Saint Ignatius - Social reign of Christ
October 24 2004	Blessed Hermine of Jesus	Unicity of Christ and His Church - Martyrdom - Mission in China
September 21 2004	Blessed Sister Rosalie Rendu	Charity - Service to the poor
August 15 2004	Venerable Matt Talbot	Alcoholism - Sin - Hell - Conversion
July 11 2004	Saint Daniel Comboni	Mission - Africa - Soudan - Slavery
June 6 2004	Saint Peter Julian Eymard	Eucharist
May 5 2004	Saint Francis Xavier Cabrini	Education - Emigrants - Penance - Peace in families
April 4 2004	Saint Rita	Forgiveness - Passion - Stigmata
February 24 2004	Blessed Virginia Centurione	Rosary - Mariology - Service to neighbor
January 17 2004	Marcel Van	Thérèse of the Child Jesus - Intimacy with God - Love - Suffering

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Year 2003

Date	Life of	Subject
December 12 2003	Our Lady of Guadalupe-Saint Juan Diego	Aztecs - Miraculous Image
November 8 2003	Blessed Jan Beyzym	Lepers - Serving one's neighbor
October 7 2003	Claire de Castelbajac	Life of faith
September 1 2003	Eugenio Zolli	Conversion - Jews - Pius XII
July 31 2003	Benoîte Rencurel	Our Lady of Laus: Sin - Sacrament of Penance
June 27 2003	Saint Pedro de San José de Betancur	Christmas - Poverty - Works of mercy
May 24 2003	Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort	Rosary
April 13 2003	John Henry Newman	Anglicanism - Conversion - Catholic Church
March 9 2003	Saint Theophane Venard	Mission - Martyr
February 2 2003	Blessed Anna Schäffer	Suffering

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Year 2002

Date	Life of	Subject
December 28 2002	Saint Michel Garicoïts	Hell - Zeal for the salvation of souls - Mercy - Apologetics
November 25 2002	Bl. Enrico Rebuschini	Nervous depression - Suffering - Spiritual combat
October 23 2002	Dom Lou	Filial piety - Politics - Christianity : strength of Europe - China
September 15 2002	Bl. Br. André Bessette	Josephology - Ordinary life - Miracles
August 15 2002	Saint Maria Goretti	Chastity - Modesty - Martyrdom - Forgiveness
July 11 2002	Saint Katharine Mary Drexel	Riches - Poverty - Apostolate among Indians and Blacks - Judgment of God - Education
June 7 2002	Bl. Gianna Beretta-Molla	Apostolate - Prayer - Education - Abortion
May 1 2002	St Francisco-Antonio Fasani	Immaculate Conception - Sin - Mental prayer - Social justice - Poverty
March 21 2002	Bl. Dom Marmion	Monastic life - Obedience - Spiritual life
January 13 2002	St Pius X	Pope - Faith - Modernism - Eucharist - Separation of Church and State

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Year 2001

Date	Life of	Subject
December 12 2001	Blessed Karl Leisner	Mariology - Priesthood - Dachau - Europe
November 3 2001	Mgr Ghika	Conversion - Charity - Communist prison - Romania
September 30 2001	Saint Marguerite d'Youville	Canada - Confidence - Providence - Evil
August 28 2001	Hermann Cohen	Conversion - Eucharist - Carmel
July 23 2001	Blessed Mary Elisabeth Hesselblad	Ecumenism - Mariology
June 22 2001	Venerable Pauline Jaricot	Propagation of the faith - Social works
May 13 2001	Blessed Edward Poppe	Priesthood - Eucharist - Mariology
April 8 2001	Saint Just de Bretenières	Martyrdom - Joy - Zeal - Korea
March 3 2001	Blessed Teresa Bracco	Martyrdom - Modesty
January 31 2001	Saint Faustina Kowalska	Mercy

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Year 2000

Date	Life of	Subject
December 25 2000	Blessed Francisco et Jacinta Marto	Last ends - Pope - Penance - Reparation
November 21 2000	Adolphe Retté	Conversion - Discernment of spirits
October 18 2000	Blessed Mother Maravillas of Jésus	Contemplative life - Prayer - Purity of heart
September 14 2000	Saint Thomas More	Martyrdom - Objection of conscience
August 15 2000	Blessed Maria Repetto (and Saint Joseph)	Humility - Will of God - Prayer
July 6 2000	Blessed Jeanne Jugan	Elderly persons - Euthanasia - Humility
May 31 2000	Saint Catherine Labouré	Miraculous Medal - Immaculate Conception - Humility
April 24 2000	Blessed Padre Pio	Stigmata - Sacraments of Penance and Eucharist - Suffering
March 19 2000	Louis et Zélie Martin	Family - Marriage - Abortion - Spiritual retreats - Vocation
February 18 2000	Blessed Cyriac-Elias of the Holy Family Chavara	Syro–Malabar liturgy - Monastic life - Schism - Unity - Forty - Hours devotion
January 21 2000	Saint Maria Goretti	Chastity - Modesty - Martyrdom - Forgiveness - Commandments of God - Mortification

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Year 1999

Date	Life of	Subject
December 13 1999	Takashi Paul Nagaï	atomic bomb – will of God – courage.
November 4 1999	Saint Margaret Mary	Sacred Heart – Mercy – reparation – suffering – humility.
September 29 1999	Blessed Aloïs Stepinac	forgiveness – unity – conscience – hope.
August 29 1999	Holy Year of Jubilee 2000	eschatology – sin – fear of God – contrition – sacrament of Penance – indulgences – communion of saints.
June 1 1999	Mgr Buguet	purgatory - immortality of the soul - expiation.
May 13 1999	Blessed Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer	Sanctification of work and of duties of state.
April 7 1999	Saint Claudine Thévenet	forgiveness - evil.
March 1 1999	Blessed José Maria Rubio	miracle - rosary - eucharist - Sacred Heart - eschatology.
January 31 1999	Saint Bernadette	Lourdes - humility.

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Year 1998

Date	Life of	Subject
December 25 1998	Emmanuel Delaunet	abortion - trisomy 21 - handicaps.
November 18 1998	Blessed Marie-Catherine Troiani	presence of God - baptism.
October 15 1998	Saint Jean-Louis Bonnard	truth - martyrdom - hope.
September 8 1998	Mother Teresa	contraception - abortion - charity.
August 6 1998	Saint Teresa of the Andes	poverty, chastity, obedience, monastic enclosure - happiness - suffering.
July 1 1998	Saint Léopold Mandic	sacrament Penance - ecumenism - obedience.
June 5 1998	Blessed Frédéric Ozanam	apologetics - drugs - abortion - charity.
May 6 1998	Léonie Martin	miracle - Delizia Cirolli - difficult character.
April 8 1998	Saint Maximilian Kolbe	will of God – freemasonry – mariology.
March 1 1998	Blessed Bartolo Longo	Rosary – eschatology – demonology – satanism – spiritism – occult.
February 11 1998	Saint Siméon Berneux, martyr	apologetics – mission.
January 15 1998	Blessed Pierre Giorgio Frassati	loyalty – faith – joy – purity – social action.

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Year 1997

Date	Life of	Subject
December 18 1997	Saint Thérèse of the Child Jesus	faith.
October 23 1997	Blessed Anwarite, martyr	prayer – chastity – eternal salvation.
September 24 1997	Blessed Clement Marchisio	Eucharist – Josephology – mariology.
August 28 1997	Blessed Anne-Marie Rivier	mariology.
July 31 1997	Blessed Peter Donders	love of God.
July 1 1997	Blessed Elisabetta Canori Mora	marriage – family – adultery.
April 7 1997	Saint Anthony the Great	Angels – demons – discernment.
March 10 1997	Blessed Mary of Providence (Eugénie Smet)	Purgatory – reincarnation – immortality of the soul.
February 12 1997	Saint John Vianney	sin – confession – Eucharist.
January 15 1997	Blessed Eugénie Joubert	spiritual childhood – humility.

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Year 1996

Date	Life of	Subject
December 18 1996	Mari Carmen	modesty – TV.
November 21 1996	Jacques Lebreton	the meaning of suffering.

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