Fr. Scott Haynes Feast of St. Clare – August 11 Introduction: A City in Peril The year was 1240. Italy trembled under the shadow of Frederick II’s imperial ambitions. In his struggle with the papacy, the excommunicated emperor had hired Saracen mercenaries, fierce Muslim warriors from Sicily, to ravage the Papal States. Their swords burned through villages like lightning, leaving only ash and lamentation behind. The city of Assisi, jewel of Umbria and home to the Franciscan

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Fr. Scott Haynes A Meditation on a Physician Who Chose Christ "Freely have you received, freely give." (Matthew 10:8) In the early fourth century, during the fierce persecution of Christians under the Emperor Diocletian, a gifted young physician lived in the city of Nicomedia. His name was Pantaleon. His father was a pagan, but his mother, Saint Eubula, quietly planted the seeds of the Christian faith in his heart before she died. As he grew older, Pantaleon became one of the