KRAKOW, Poland (OSV News) This Catholic teacher worked to bolster the spiritual and cultural identity of Polish slave laborers, for which she died a martyr’s death in the notorious Ravensbrück concentration camp. Blessed Natalia Tulasiewicz was 39 when she perished in 1945 just as World War II horrors were coming to an end.
Born in Rzeszów, Poland, Tulasiewicz was educated in Kety, Kraków, and Poznan. She loved culture: movies, concerts, and especially theater and poetr
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The daily readings are taken from the lectionary which divides much of the Bible into three years worth of readings. If you complete the daily readings each day for three years, you will read 15 percent of the Old Testament and 71 percent of the New Testament.
A graduate of The College of St. Thomas More (Fort Worth, Texas) and then The Catholic University of America, Dr. Travis Cooper has been teaching at Thomas Aquinas College since 2012. Reading and discussing literature, in itself and in its intersection with theology and philosophy, is near and dear to his heart. Dr. Cooper, his wife Briena, and their five sons live in Santa Paula, California.