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1. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Mathilde De Robien

   A virtual visit to where saints were born — Aleteia (opens the original)

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   See where these men and women of God spent the first days and years of their lives. See where these men and women of God spent the first days and years of their lives. The lessons we learn from our parents in our childhood homes stay with us throughout our lifetimes and affect us deeply. This is as true for the saints as it is of the rest of us, and seeing the homes where saints grew up can reveal something of their souls to us. Click on the slideshow to get a glimpse of the childhood homes of 8

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2. Article · Aug 22, 2026 · Mathilde De Robien

   Paraplegic engineer helps wounded soldiers build wheelchairs (opens the original)

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   Paul de Livron, a 34-year-old engineer from France who specializes in making wooden wheelchairs, became a paraplegic after a hiking accident 13 years ago. Today, he’s passing on to wounded Ukrainians the very thing that helped him overcome the ordeal of becoming disabled: the joy and pride of working with his own hands. “The energy that you put into self-destruction, you put into creation instead, and that brings joy,” he tells Aleteia. He has set up a wheelchair manufacturing workshop in a reha

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