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100,000 mark 100th anniversary of murder of last Russian czar

July 18, 2018

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CWN Editor's Note: Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, led a 13-mile procession to commemorate the murder of Czar Nicholas II and his family.

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Friday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Camillus de Lellis, Priest (USA)

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis (1550-1641). Camillus suffered an incurable wound in his foot, experienced the horrors of the Roman hospitals in the sixteenth century in which the nursing and other staff were drawn from the dregs of the population. He effected a great…

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