Once the devil said to a priest: "If there were three men like thee, my kingdom would be ruined!"

The whole of France came to him.
He could read souls, he fought demons and lived on one boiled potato a day.

This is the astonishing life story of St. Jean-Marie Vianney - a🧵✝️
Jean Vianney was a simple farm boy.
Born into a farming family in Dardilly, near Lyon, on May 8, 1786, Jean-Marie Vianney’s childhood was marked by the fervor and love of his parents.

However, the context of the French Revolution had a strong influence on his youth: he made his first confession at the foot of the great clock, in the common room of the house where he was born, rather than in the village church, and received absolution from an underground priest.

Two years later, he made his First Communion in a barn, during an underground mass celebrated by a refractory priest.

At 17, he chose to answer God’s call: “I’d like to win souls for God,” he told his mother, Marie Béluze. But his father opposed the project for two years, as there was a shortage of hands at his father’s house.

Once in the seminary everyone thought he was too stupid to be a priest.

He couldn’t read, struggled with Latin, and was nearly kicked out of seminary.

But God had other plans.

Christianity through the eyes of Asian Christians - a 🧵✝️☦️
Details of “The Last Supper” by Chen Yuandu

The Bible isn’t just a story.

It’s real history, written in stone and confirmed by archaeology.

Here are 9 discoveries that prove the Bible’s truth still stands today - a🧵✝️ The Tunnel of Hezekiah 701 B.C

2 Kings 20 says King Hezekiah built a secret tunnel to bring water into Jerusalem during an Assyrian siege.

For centuries, skeptics called it legend.

Then in 1838, a 1,750-foot tunnel was discovered, carved into solid rock, exactly where Scripture said.

It’s real. You can walk through it today.

Today is the feast day of St. James the Apostle.

In 844 A.D. Christian Hispania was on the edge of annihilation

But then, something appeared in the sky: a rider on a white horse, blazing with light.

The miracle of Clavijo, when St. James descended to fight – a 🧵✝️🇪🇸 At the time, the Reconquista had barely begun.

King Ramiro I of Asturias led a small Christian force against the Moors of Al-Andalus.

They were exhausted. Surrounded. On the verge of defeat. That night, Ramiro prayed.

And in his sleep, a vision.

The movie version of Dracula holds no candle to the historical Vlad, the Impaler.

He was a Christian king who defended his home with everything he had from the Ottoman invasion.
And without him, Europe as we know it wouldn't exist.

This is the story of Vlad Dracula - a 🧵✝️
Forget Hollywood's vampire nonsense.

Vlad III of Wallachia, "Dracula", wasn’t a blood-sucking monster.

He was a Defender of the Cross, forged in fire and betrayal, who struck fear into the hearts of the Ottoman hordes.

This is the "New Hagia Sophia".

It was completed just months after the original Byzantine cathedral was turned into a mosque.

The result? One of the most magnificent churches ever built - a 🧵✝️☦️
Side by side comparison

They mock our faith as superstition.
"Outdated. Irrational. Blind.", they say.

But when the tests are run, the scans examined & the tissue analyzed; Even scientists fall silent.

These are 6 miracles the world tried to debunk, and failed - a🧵✝️
The Host That Became Human Heart Tissue: Lanciano, Italy 8th c. A.D

A priest doubted the Real Presence during Mass.
As he consecrated the host, it transformed into real flesh and blood before his eyes.

Modern tests show:
>The flesh is cardiac tissue (heart muscle)
>The blood is type AB, same as the Shroud of Turin.
>No preservatives. No decay. 1,200 years later.

The Sacred Heart, made visible.

They mocked him.
They investigated him.
They tried to silence him.

But he bore the wounds of Christ, could read souls, talk to angels & be in two places at once!

This is the story Saint Padre Pio, the saint who confused modern science - a 🧵✝️
Born Francesco Forgione in 1887 in southern Italy, he became a Capuchin friar and priest, later known to the world as Padre Pio of Pietrelcina.

From early childhood, he saw angels, demons, and Jesus Christ Himself.

He once said:
“If you only knew how many devils I see at my side…”

The Beauty of Catholicism in Japan - a🧵🇯🇵 ✝️ Portrait of St. Francis Xavier, co-founder of the Jesuits and the first Christian missionary in Japan.

From: Haruhi Aisaka

Christians are not persecuted?

Over 70 million Christians have been martyred over the last two millennia.
Men, women, and children who chose death over denying Christ.

This is the story of Christian persecution - a 🧵✝️

The Crusades were completely Justified - a 🧵✝️

When the crusader knights retook Jerusalem in 1099, they not only seized the city, they reestablished law and order.

In the deserts and fortresses of the East, they raised Christian kingdoms amidst the Islamic sea.

The Laws of the Christian Crusader States - a 🧵
It was necessary to create laws, organize justice, and maintain order.

Thus were born the Laws of the Crusader States, one of the most fascinating legal codes of the Middle Ages.

The most famous code of the crusaders was the Assizes of Jerusalem, also known as the Assizes of the Kingdom of the Holy Land.

It was a set of laws that established the rights, duties, and obligations of each social class in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

Its origin dates back to the first crusader king, Baldwin I, who reigned from 1100 to 1118.

Something unexpected is happening in Europe

While the world talks about secularism & a crisis of faith, the youth is returning to Church

Masses are overflowing.
Processions are packed.
And baptisms? Shattering records.

This is the revival they said would never come - a 🧵✝️🇫🇷
In a nation once emblematic of secularism, France is witnessing an unprecedented spiritual resurgence.

This Easter Sunday alone, over 17,800 individuals were baptized into the Catholic Church, a record-breaking number in recent history. A 45% increase from last year.

Beneath the shadow of Golgotha, as the storm clouds raged and the earth trembled, stood a Roman centurion, a man of war, duty, and hardened steel.

His name was Longinus, a soldier sworn to Rome, but destined for something far greater.

The Sanctification of Longinus - a 🧵✝️ Longinus had seen many men die in battle, but none like this. The man on the cross before him, Jesus of Nazareth, bore suffering not with curses or screams, but with divine serenity.

As the sky darkened at midday, and a terrible quake split the very rocks, something beyond mortal power was unfolding.

Christian symbols and their meanings - a 🧵✝️ The CHI RHO

The Chi Rho combines the first two Greek letters of “Christ”, Χ (Chi) and Ρ (Rho).

It became one of the earliest symbols for Jesus, used by early Christians.

Cairo, Egypt 1968. The Virgin Mary appeared over a church rooftop, glowing in light.

Muslims and Christians saw her. Even President Nasser did.

The government investigated. They found no explanation.

The apparitions of Our Lady of Zeitoun – a 🧵🇪🇬 ✝️
It all started on April 2, 1968, at the Church of Saint Mary in Zeitoun, Cairo.

Two Muslim mechanics across the street saw a figure on the roof: “She’s going to jump!” one shouted.

The shouts of the two men attracted a small crowd. Those who saw the woman were filled with confusion and awe.

One of the Church custodians voiced what everyone was thinking:  “Could that be the Virgin Mary?”

The police were called. But as the crowd gathered, something extraordinary happened.

The figure glowed with a brilliant light.

Christianity is NOT a pacifist religion

Christians are supposed to be pacifists? Just say you know nothing about Christianity

The saints and doctors of the Church taught that war is sometimes not only permitted, but a duty

Let’s talk about Just and Holy War - a🧵✝️
Let’s begin with a myth: “Christianity means absolute pacifism. War is always evil.”

This is FALSE.

From the early Church Fathers to the great Doctors like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, the Church has always taught that some wars are just, even holy.

War is an evil, but sometimes necessary to restore just peace and avoid greater evils.

You should have a devotion to Saint George, the dragon slayer, especially nowadays.

Once, he slew a dragon.
Today, we face many dragons: relativism, tyranny, spiritual apathy.

Here’s why the devil fears St George & why we need to reignite devotion to him - a🧵✝️🇬🇪 A city is terrorized by a dragon. To appease it, the people offer sheep, then eventually their own children.

When the king’s daughter is chosen, a lone Christian knight appears.

Saint George slays the beast and proclaims Christ to the stunned citizens.

"Temptation is a sure sign the soul is very pleasing to the Lord." - St. Padre Pio

Many people mistake temptation as a sign of failure.
But the saints teach us the opposite.

Why temptation might be an opportunity for sanctification - a 🧵✝️ Temptation itself is not sin.

Our Lord Jesus was tempted in the desert.
Padre Pio himself endured terrible attacks from the devil.

Temptation means you are in a battle, and you fight because you belong to Christ.

Why does nearly every Catholic country have a shrine to Saint Michael?

From Italy to Mexico
From France to the Philippines
From Ireland to Ethiopia

Saint Michael appears wherever the Church fights for survival.

Here’s why - a 🧵
Saint Michael doesn’t just protect individuals, he protects the Church & the children of God

That’s why the Church has built shrines, monasteries, and chapels to him for over a thousand years.

And most of them aren’t built in cities.

They’re built on mountain-tops, cliffs, islands, and high places, like heavenly outposts in the war against darkness.

Narnia is a deeply Christian work of literature.

It has witches, talking animals, and no mention of “church.”

But it may be one of the clearest depictions of the Gospel ever put to film.

Here’s the truth behind the Christian heart of The Chronicles of Narnia - a 🧵✝️
Narnia was written by C.S. Lewis, one of the 20th century’s greatest Christian writers and apologists.

A former atheist who converted after conversations with J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis became a devout Anglican, and saw storytelling as a way to baptize the imagination.

He called Narnia a “supposal”, not an allegory, but “suppose Christ came into a world like Narnia…”