The 9th Of August
Feast day of a modern day saint, Edith Stein, a German Jewish philosopher who converted to Roman Catholicism, became a Discalced Carmelite nun and took the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross. She is one of the six patron saints of Europe as well as of converted Jews and martyrs. https://t.co/tSEFsMPz3B
giovedì 9 agosto 2018
St Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)
mercoledì 3 gennaio 2018
Igor Levit: Gilmore Award 2018
The pianist Igor Levit is the Gilmore Award 2018 winner. A very interesting article about Igor on New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/03/arts/music/igor-levit-gilmore-award.html
martedì 26 dicembre 2017
Christmas , Christmas... Extreme poverty in the USA
This Christmas time may help us to understand that poverty is here around us.
I share an article from the Washington post about Extreme poverty in the USA. Read here https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/12/21/extreme-poverty-returns-to-america/
Some day ago I shared an article in Italian that shows that children suffer nutritional problem and poverty here in Europe and in particular there is a scientific research about this problem in six Italian cities and the first results are from Milan (Milano - Italy - Europe) and you can read here
"Bambini poveri e malnutriti nella Milano <<bene>> http://agnesefiducia.blogspot.com/2017/12/bambini-malnutriti-nella-milano.html "