Daily Archives: July 12, 2011

Eve Lavallière

Eve Lavallière (stage name of Eugenie Fenoglio) was born in Toulon, France, on April 1, 1866. The second child and only daughter of Emile and Albanie Fenoglio, she later described her painful youth. “As a child, I knew not what … Continue reading

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Calvinist Iconoclasm … but God wanted it otherwise

Today, some Reformed Protestants still like to accuse us Catholics of “idolatry”, retaining Calvin’s rejection of the usage of images in worship. When Calvin did talk about “image”, he meant a spiritual image of God in Jesus Christ the Word … Continue reading

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