There was a poor boy that grew up in L. A. As a teenager he became interested in boxing and soon showed that he had exceptional talent. Were it not […]

In Croatia women have a great devotion to St. Anthony, especially young girls praying for a husband. One girl was fed up one day and threw statue out the window; […]

In 1885 Vincent Van Gogh (Dutch Impressionist Painter) visited a museum in Amsterdam to see Rembrandt’s famous painting, ‘The Jewish Bride’. Having seen it he said, ‘I would give ten […]

Todays gospel is aobut Jesus’s little helper.  He is carrying a bag on his back and there he has five loafs of bread and two fishes. Maybe we wants to […]

There is a beautiful story of human kindness and compassion of two famous people who know what is important for them. It’s about 2 of the 3 tenors, Pavarotti, Placido […]

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali poet, writer, playwright, and social reformer who was born in Kolkata in India in 1861. He won the Nobel  prize for literature in 1993.  One […]

A few years ago, Julio Iglesias sang a beautiful song, a very sad song, it was called: ‘me olvide de vivir’ – I forgot how to live’.  It talks about […]

Sometimes we hear a sad song,  or we read a sad book,  or we see a film with a sad ending;  or sometimes we are just sad in our own […]

John Newton was the son of an English sea captain. When John was ten, his mother died, and he went to sea with his father. At 17, however, he rebelled […]

Many years ago, there were two famous painters in Rome.  One of them was Raphael and the other was Michelangelo.  They were rivals.  One day Raphael was painting beautiful figures […]