by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | Jun 17, 2019 | Blog
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood: before the great and dreadful day of the Lord doth come.—Joel 2:31 The Prophecy of Joel After the descent of the Holy Ghost on Pentecost Sunday, when St. Peter preaches the Gospel for the first time, he...
by Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs | May 11, 2019 | Blog
Crown of the Andes, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York In the last decade of the 1590s, in gratitude to the Immaculate Conception for having spared them from an outbreak of smallpox, the people of Popayán in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada offered her...