Dec 9, 2019 | 19th century, 20th century, audio available, colorado, denver, episodes, franciscans, german, martyr, priest, religious men, rocky mountains, servant of god
Fr. Leo Heinrichs was a Franciscan martyred during Mass in his Colorado parish in 1908. Tom and Noëlle Crowe reveal the story of this humble German friar who was slain by an anti-Catholic anarchist during Holy Communion and at the feet of a statue of Our Lady, where he had said he would choose to die.
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Sep 9, 2019 | 19th century, 20th century, audio available, black catholic, convert, episodes, laity, midwest, montana, ohio, pacific northwest, religious women, ursulines
Mary Fields, AKA “Stagecoach Mary,” was a gun-toting, hard-drinking, street-brawling black woman on the Montana frontier, with a soft spot for some Ursulines
