Last Time on HOARATS Saints And Other Catholics Alive And Well In 1889 | Saints Who Were Alive In 1889. And Now… Just before the start of the American revolution against the British empire on April 19, 1775 Pope Pius VI became pope #250 on February 15, 1775 which lasted until August 29, 1799 (24 years, 195 days). That was the year that our first American president died on December 14, 1799. 1889 marks the centennial anniversary of George being sworn into office.... Read more
Last Time on HOARATS While Marty And Doc Traveled Through Time This Also Happened | A Look At The Various Time Periods That Marty And Doc Visit In Back To The Future (patheos.com) This Time… In my particular series of historical blog posts (Heck of a Ride Around the Sun) I have tried to include and insert many many canonized Catholic Saints, Blesseds, Venerables and Servants of God into the timelines. I may have missed some and it’s hard to... Read more
Last Time on HOARATS 1st Electric Circus Garden Outlaws – 1880 – 1888 Now we focus on these years beginning in 1885 The Year Marty McFly and Doc Brown time traveled to the old westin their Time Traveling Delorean. Also, two stepbrothers accidentally invent a time machine and are transported from the present day to 1885, where they come into conflict with the local mayor and are Lost in the West. Picture This W. L. Wyllie Storm and Sunshine: A Battle with the Elements... Read more
In my particular series of historical blog posts (Heck of a Ride Around the Sun) I have tried to include and insert many many canonized Catholic Saints, Blesseds, Venerables and Servants of God into the timelines. I may have missed some and it’s hard to go back and drop them into history. So I’m putting them here in this particular series of articles on the Catholic Bard’s List of Saints. I took the General Roman Calendar, some books on saints,... Read more
Last Time on HOARATS The Post Civil War Years – 1870 – 1879 As we enter into the 1880’s Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) was president # 44 March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881 Leo XIII (March 2, 1810 – July 20, 1903) was Pope # 256 Papal Reign February 20, 1878 – July 20, 1903 (25 years, 150 days) Electricity starts to be more widely used. P.T. Barnum starts a circus and gets an elephant. The first movie that... Read more
Here is what is going on this month in life in the 9th month of September in the year 2024. Sunday September 1, 2024 TWENTY-SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Day 244: Susanna’s Righteousness — The Bible in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) (youtube.com Day 244: The Virtue of Charity — The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz) – YouTube 1532 – Lady Anne Boleyn is made Marquess of Pembroke by her fiancé, King Henry VIII of England. 1772 – The Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa is... Read more
O.K. Patrick, in the early days of the infant Christian church different viewpoints started to arise about just who the person and identity of Jesus Christ truly is. Some heretical opinions surfaced that challenged the apostolic orthodox tradition of who Christ is and also got the early church fathers thinking about how to clearly proclaim with dogmatic certitude what the church left in charge by Jesus truly believed about the identity of her founder. Patrick is the name given to... Read more
Kristin and I both recently returned from traveling to Ireland. Today I have to return to the real world and resume my activities. Not sure I’m ready to go back to normal from visiting A land of greenfields and ancient castles. Doesn’t matter how I feel, it’s time. We had a grand lovely experience while traveling and visiting historic sites and extended family members. I’m gonna write a whole post dedicated to that. But every great adventure like normal life... Read more
Saint Faustina Kowalska was born on August 25, 1905. She is the patron of Divine Mercy. 69 years later Kristin ‘The Carmelite’ Nealon Wilson and her twin sister Kathleen was born. And she almost died. Due to the intercession of the first American born saint Saint Elizabeth Anne Seaton, God showed mercy on her and allowed her to live after successful open heart surgery saved her life. 50 years later she is still roaming around this earth. Her life turned... Read more
Crazy! This was my first impression of St. Francis after reading about his life as described in “The Little Flowers of Saint Francis.” Crazy because his thought and the thoughts of his monks seemed so out of the ordinary compared to what modern church society thinks. I can’t picture modern day Franciscans such as Fr. Terry asking Fr. Scanlon to step on his throat and mouth telling him “Lie there, you country lout, How is it that you have so... Read more
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