History in Colour: Sister Brigid Flanagan
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross In the Catholic Church of Southern Africa, and indeed worldwide, Holy Family Sister Brigid Flanagan was...
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross In the Catholic Church of Southern Africa, and indeed worldwide, Holy Family Sister Brigid Flanagan was...
Church / Church History / History in Colour
by Admin · Published September 13, 2023 · Last modified August 29, 2023
Italy entered the war in 1915 on the side of the Allies against Germany and Austria. Fr Roncall — who had been ordained 1904 — was drafted...
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross South Africa’s first four black priests in a photograph first published in 1924. At the back...
Church / Church History / History in Colour
by Admin · Published March 9, 2023 · Last modified March 8, 2023
A snapshot from the past, colourised exclusively for The Southern Cross This is the first Catholic church in Johannesburg, on the corner of 148 Fox and Smal...
US Catholic activist Dorothy Day is seated amid armed policemen during a protest in this still from the documentary film Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day...
Church / Church History / Denis Hurley / History in Colour
by Admin · Published February 13, 2023 · Last modified February 10, 2023
Archbishop Denis Hurley OMI, carrying a large cross, leads an ecumenical group of people past Durban’s Central Post Office during the 1988 Good Friday Procession of the...
Some of the tens of thousands of people who witnessed the “Miracle of the Sun” at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal, on October 13, 1917....
Christmas / Church / History in Colour
by Admin · Published December 21, 2022 · Last modified December 17, 2022
Bing Crosby as Fr Chuck O’Malley and Ingrid Bergman as Sr Mary Benedict in the 1945 film The Bells of St Mary’s. Directed by Leo McCarey, like...
Church / Church History / History in Colour
by Admin · Published November 13, 2022 · Last modified January 9, 2022
In many parts of the world, including South Africa, November is Remembrance Month, in which we are called to remember those who fell in wars. The tradition...
Church / Church History / History in Colour
by Admin · Published October 10, 2022 · Last modified October 11, 2022
On September 4, 1985, a group of 32 seminarians of St John Vianney Seminary marched on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to protest against apartheid. It was...
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