St Martin Magazine - St Martin Magazine - MAY 2025

In this issue

May is the month of Mary, and our magazine cover reflects this with a lovely statue of Our Lady of Fatima taken in St Saviour’s Priory, Dublin. Mary is the subject of our series on Lesser-Known Pilgrimage Sites where Ray Hughes visits The Aglona Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, one of the most important Catholic centres in Latvia. Mary is also featured in articles by Fr Kellan Scott OP and Dom Aelred Magee OCSO, while the ‘Friends of Saint Martin’ has information on how the Rosary Confraternity is embracing the digital age and bringing the community into an online platform. With this in mind be sure and check out our special May offer of ‘The Rosary with Saint Martin’. Fr Conor McDonough OP completes his two-part series on the interior life of Daniel O’Connell whose regret over killing an opponent in a duel most probably brought him into a closer relationship with God, whom he had previously rejected. Elizabeth of Hungary is our Married Saint and John Dryden the subject of Famous Converts. Once Poet Laureate of England he was the only one to be removed from the position which happened as a result of his conversion to Catholicism.