Letter #23, 2021, Tuesday, May 4: Pivot Letter #23, 2021, Tuesday, May 4: Pivot
On April 29, I received a note from the widow of my late friend,
Dmitry Khafizov. (
Dmitry died on April 21 in Kazan, Russia, at the age of 57.
He was well-known in Kazan and throughout Russia as a man who had spent many years researching the history of what is arguably the most venerated of all Russian icons: the Icon of the Blessed Mother of Kazan. This icon, found in Kazan in 1579, came to be called the “Protection of Russia.” It was venerated by Tsars and simple people for almost 350 years, but it was lost to the country just before the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, evidently stolen from a church where it was kept.
Venerable Carlo Acutis. / carloacutis.com.
Rome, Italy, May 3, 2021 / 13:00 pm (CNA).
Catholic parishes across Italy and as far away as the Philippines celebrated what would have been the 30th birthday of Blessed Carlo Acutis on Monday.Acutis, w.