You got to love God’s clock. To begin with St. Lucy is a Sicilian who is in the canon of the Mass and Sicily was the first nation to have a feast day for the Immaculate Conception. (1).
To me Our Lady of Guadalupe is or can be compared to our Lady of the Apocalypse 12.
Not to mention your Joseph is of Sicilian decent and my name Saraceno comes from the word Saracen which means, Muslim Arab, add the O you have Sicilian, Italian.  Now you have the Saracen’s mentioned in the Missal’s and Italians in the Bible. (2) Joseph being born on May 13th, Our Lady of Fatima day and the woman,  “Fatima was reputedly the Prophet’s favorite daughter and a woman of … Sunnis recognize her as Muhammad’s favorite wife after Khadija,

The attack, which left six people dead on Tuesday, including the two suspected shooters, rattled a historically black neighborhood where an ultra-Orthodox Jewish community recently has taken root. Three people were killed inside the store, including the wife of the owner, a customer and an employee. A Jersey City police detective was fatally shot at a cemetery about a mile away, officials believe by the same two shooters, who were also found dead inside the store. MORE

Maybe it’s a ‘funny thing’ that Muslims say the Shema at King David, but the culture of the school has a profound effect on the students, writes a mother.

In Jewish history, Jews have experienced numerous mass expulsions and they have also fled from areas after experiencing ostracism and threats of various kinds by various local authorities seeking refuge in other countries. MORE

Rat is the first in the 12-year cycle of Chinese zodiac. The Years of the Rat include 1912, 1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020, 2032… Though people consider the rat not adorable, and it even makes its way into derogatory languages, it ranks first on the Chinese zodiac signs. MORE

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Reuben Panchol was forced to leave war-torn Sudan decades ago as a child, embarking on an odyssey that eventually brought him to the American Midwest and left him eternally grateful to the country that took him in. MORE

At least five people have died and more than 20 are still unaccounted for after the White Island/Whakaari volcano off the coast of New Zealand erupted without warning Monday as tourists hiked around the rim and walked inside the crater. MORE

Children under the age of five accounted for most of the 140,000 people who died from measles in 2018, according to new estimates released today by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) on behalf of the Measles and Rubella Initiative. MORE

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