Daily Excerpt: Saints I Know (Sula) - St. Mary
The following excerpt comes from Saints I Know by Sula, Parish Cat at Old Mission. Appropriate for Caturday -- the book is "written" by a cat -- and for the Easter season. Saint Mary The one who was from birth meant to be a saint and lived a holy and perfect life, Mary has done so much for the world and for us who live in it that a short article simply will not suffice. I will try my best to point out the things that seem important to a cat, but so many more things will remain unexpressed that your chore will become to find out as many more as you can—and probably you already know many. Mary appears in both the Bible and the Q’uran , and she has many names: Mary (Miriam in Aramaic, the language of Jesus and the people where he grew up), the Virgin Mary, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Immaculate Conception, Mother of God, Mother of Jesus, and, though her apparitions, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Our Lady of Fatima, Our Lady of Mercy, and others The name, the Imm...