Islamic Outreach, Part IX
From an earlier post on this blog:
Pope Francis spoke to the diplomatic corps and amongst other things, said, "Hence it is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions, and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam."
Yesterday, Pope Francis conducted for the first time the venerable rite for the canonization of saints. He said, " Today the Church proposes for our veneration a group of martyrs who were called together to the supreme witness to the Gospel in 1480. About 800 people, who survived the siege and invasion of Otranto, Italy, were decapitated on the outskirts of that city. They refused to deny their faith and they died confessing the risen Christ."
Want to take a guess as to who killed them?
As the headline at FatherZ's blog states:
Pope Francis spoke to the diplomatic corps and amongst other things, said, "Hence it is important to intensify dialogue among the various religions, and I am thinking particularly of dialogue with Islam."
Yesterday, Pope Francis conducted for the first time the venerable rite for the canonization of saints. He said, " Today the Church proposes for our veneration a group of martyrs who were called together to the supreme witness to the Gospel in 1480. About 800 people, who survived the siege and invasion of Otranto, Italy, were decapitated on the outskirts of that city. They refused to deny their faith and they died confessing the risen Christ."
Want to take a guess as to who killed them?
As the headline at FatherZ's blog states:
Pope Francis canonizes the Martyrs of Otranto, slain by Islamic invaders
Labels: Islam, Islamic Outreach, marrtyrs
posted by jope @ May 13, 2013
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