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The Poet who saved a saint's priceless letters
Joseph Pearce recalls the extraordinary life of Roy Campbell, who hid St John of the Cross’s letters from Spanish militiamen.
Catholic convert Roy Campbell was the inspiration for the Lord of the Rings character Aragorn
It was March 1936. A series of anti-clerical riots swept through Toledo. Churches were burned and priests and monks were attacked in the streets. During these disturbances several Carmelite monks, disguised in lay clothes, sought shelter in the home of the South African poet, Roy Campbell, who had moved to the city with his wife, Mary, and their two young daughters in the previous year. Four months later, on July 21, republican forces advanced on the city. Under cover of darkness, the Carmelite monks once again called on the Campbells. This time, however, they were not seeking refuge for themselves but for their priceless archives, which included the personal papers of St John of the Cross. Campbell agreed to take possession of these precious archives and that night a heavy trunk of ancient documents was delivered secretly from the Carmelite library to the hallway of the Campbells’ house. [more]
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NEWS: StoryTel Announces "StoryTel Shorts"
StoryTel Foundation is pleased to announce "StoryTel Shorts." Our mission is to distribute to as wide an audience as possible stories of ordinary people doing God's work. StoryTel Shorts are one-to-five minute videos that can be easily shared across the Internet and the social networks. They are often segments from within our longer documentaries, but also are sometimes stand-alone original videos.
These videos can be seen on our screening room page, our Youtube channel, and our Facebook page. Our first topics are Confession and the Corpus Christi Procession in Omaha.