The Good Samaritans of Markowa: The Sacrificial Love of the Ulma Family
We are blessed to offer our pilgrims the opportunity to learn about an venerate the first-class relics of the recently beatified Ulma family, a peasant Polish family that lived during the Nazi occupation of Poland.
Thomas More
A new landmark exhibit on Thomas More, the English martyr whom St. John Paul II declared the heavenly Patron of Statesmen and Politicians, opened at the Saint John Paul II National Shrine on Sept. 16, 2016. The exhibit, God’s Servant First: The Life and Legacy of Thomas More, explores the life of the former Lord Chancellor of England who was executed during King Henry VIII’s reign for refusing to recognize the King’s self-declared supremacy over the Church in England.
Canonization Portrait of St. Teresa of Calcutta Unveiled
Mother Teresa referred to February 3, 1986 as the happiest day of her life. On that day, Pope John Paul II visited the slums of Calcutta, where she and her fellow Missionaries of Charity cared for the poorest of the poor: the discarded and lonely people left to die in the streets.