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		<title>Versos a Santa Lucía</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/versos-a-santa-lucia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Con vuestros ojos preciosos,
Amparadnos, Virgen bella,
Pues que Dios, sacra doncella
Quiso fuesen belicosos.
Lucía, si en la conquista
Del Cielo tuviste gozo
Alcanzad de vuestro esposo
Nos quiera guardar la vista.
With your precious eyes
Help us, beautiful Virgin,
For God, holy maid,
Wills that they have power.
Lucy, if in the conquest
Of Heaven you rejoiced,
Obtain from your Spouse
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		<title>San Ramon Nonato</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 01:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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From the site of E. Bryant Holman (R.I.P.):
While still a young man, he joined the Orden de la Merced, which was an order which raised money to go to North Africa and pay the ransom for Christians who were being held there. While on one such mission, he was found, by the Muslim authorities, to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=3820&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>San Miguel y Santa Muerte</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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AG was listening to my CD of Crisotbal Morales&#8217; Requiem (see video above), when it hit me that St. Michael is mentioned in the text of the old Requiem Mass, at the Offeretory:
sed signifer sanctus Michæl
repræsentet eas in lucem sanctam,
quam olim Abrahæ promisisti et semini ejus. 
but may the sign-bearer, Saint Michael,
lead them into the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=3640&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Expedite</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/st-expedite/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
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And&#8230;.

St. Expedite&#8217;s statue at the St. Jude Shrine here in New Orleans.
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		<title>Unfailing prayer to Saint Anthony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 01:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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St. Anthony, gentlest of Saints, your love for God and charity for his creatures, made you worthy, when on earth, to possess miraculous powers. Miracles waited on your word, which you were ready to speak for those in trouble or anxiety. Encouraged by this thought, I ask you to obtain for me the favors that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=3059&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the infirmity of the human mind</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/on-the-infirmity-of-the-human-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 01:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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They, then, who see their own mind, in whatever way that is possible, and in it that Trinity of which I have treated as I could in many ways, and yet do not believe or understand it to be an image of God, see indeed a glass, but do not so far see through the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=3002&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Santa Librada</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/santa-librada/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 19:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Or St. Wilgefortis. Her origins are obscure, but the most common story is that she was a daughter of a pagan king in Portugal who prayed to be made ugly by God in order to prevent her marriage to another pagan king. She instantly grew a beard in response to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=2762&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayer to St. Joseph over 1900 years old</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/prayer-to-st-joseph-over-1900-years-old/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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O St. Joseph whose protection is so great, so strong, so prompt before the Throne of God, I place in you all my interests and desires. O St. Joseph do assist me by your powerful intercession and obtain for me from your Divine Son all spiritual blessings through Jesus Christ, Our Lord; so that having [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=2567&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>San Judas Tadeo</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/san-judas-tadeo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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The above video is a song about St. Jude and a person who did not keep his promise to him. Basically, the individual in question asked St. Jude for wealth, which the saint gave him. But the man failed to share his wealth with the poor. St. Jude then appears to him riding a horse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=2296&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oración a Santa Elena de Jerusalén</title>
		<link>http://arturovasquez.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/oracion-a-santa-elena-de-jerusalen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arturo Vasquez</dc:creator>
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Gloriosa Santa Elena, gloriosa Santa Elena, gloriosa Santa Elena, hija de la reina de Jerusalén; a Jerusalén fuiste, tres clavos trajiste, uno trajiste, lo consagraste y el martes a la mar lo echastes; el otro se lo diste a tu hermano Cipriano, para que venciera en guerra y batalla; y ese que te queda en [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=arturovasquez.wordpress.com&blog=2894911&post=2070&subd=arturovasquez&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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