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Undset was born in Kalundborg, Denmark, but her family moved to Norway when she was two years old.
Sigrid Undset (; – 10 June 1949) was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist.
Sigrid Undset was born on at Kalundborg in Denmark to a Danish mother—with Norwegian paternal ancestry—and a Norwegian father.

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Wednesday of the Third Week of Ordinary Time; Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, virgin

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January 27, 2021 (Readings on USCCB website)

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Almighty ever-living God, direct our actions according to your good pleasure, that in the name of your beloved Son we may abound in good works. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

May the Virgin Saint Angela never fail to commend us to your compassion, O Lord, we pray, that, following the lessons of her charity and prudence, and express it in what we do. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever.

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St. Angela was born in northern Italy. In 1516, she founded the Order of Ursulines, the first teaching order for women approved by the Chur

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Painting by Piero della Francesca: The Brera Madonna, (also known as the Pala di Brera, the Montefeltro Altarpiece or Brera Altarpiece), executed in 1472–1474. It is housed in the Pinacoteca di Brera of Milan, where it was deposited by Napoleon. The work, of a type known as a sacra conversazione, was commissioned by Federico III da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino, to celebrate the birth of Federico's son, Guidobaldo. According to other sources, it would celebrate his conquest of several castles in the Maremma.

Painting by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci:The Baptism of Christ, an oil-on-panel painting finished around 1475 in the studio of the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea del Verrocchio and generally ascribed to him and his pupil Leonardo da Vinci. Some art historians discern the hands of othe

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GRACE NOTES - MARCH 2024

The word Ædnan means “land” in the Northern Sámi tongue. It can also mean “the earth” and “my mother.” In Linnea Axelsson’s beautiful novel in verse, she touches on all of these layers of meaning. The subtitle of the book - An Epic - opens up the expectation of a work of grandiose proportions. While the story is spread out over more than 400 pages, the writing is sparse, reading like a long string of haiku. The white space on the pages evokes the snowy, silent landscape of northern Sweden where the book takes place. These silences are as eloquent as the words that they surround.

The story begins in the spring of 1913. Ristin and her family are migrating their herd of reindeer from winter to summer pastures. The family is forced to separate due to confusion at the newly drawn border between Sweden and Norway. Her son Aslat dies in an accident and the family is forced by seasonal migration to abandon his grave.

Seven years later, revisiting the grave, Ristin and her husband Ber-Joná are taken by the Lapp Administration and subjected to humilia