The Rev. James M. Gillis, editor of The Catholic World, has expressed the hope that “in those countries now writhing under the heel of dictators, there were another family of Maccabees to fling their ...

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This is Swiss-Italian artist Antonio Ciseri’s conception of the martyrdom of the Maccabee brothers in the revolt they led against Greece from 167-160 B.C. Ciseri lived from 1821-91. (Courtesy Photo) ...