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Manila cardinal baptizes 450 street children

October 01, 2019

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CWN Editor's Note: According to the report, Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle wished to dispel the false belief, prevalent among some of the poorest Filipinos, that the poor cannot receive the sacraments because they cannot afford them.

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Wednesday of the Fourteenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Augustine Zhao Rong, Priest, and Companions, Martyrs

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The Church commemorates the Optional Memorial of Saint Augustine Zhao Rong (1746-1815). He was a Chinese diocesan priest who was martyred with his 119 other Chinese Catholics. Among their number was an eighteen-year-old boy, Chi Zhuzi, who cried out to those who had just cut off his right arm and were…

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