Thank you for listening to the SSPX podcast and our next installment of the SSPX interview series.

Today we're happy to have Father Alphanus Maria join us to talk about a less well-known priest

who deserves much more attention here in the 21st century, Father George Catherine.

Father Alphanus felt so strongly that Catholics today needed to know more about this Australian

Redemptorist that he wrote a biography, the story of Father George Catherine, which has been

published by Angelus Press. His story is the story of the early days of the crisis in the church. His story mirrors

that of the Society of St. Pius X's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefev. And as Bishop

Bernard Filet wrote in the foreword to this book about Father Catherine, quote,

suddenly the normal actions, the normal life, turns into heroism. This example should give us joy and courage for our times.

Let's join Father Alfonza's Maria now to learn more about this quiet, heroic priest.

So, Father, you just wrote a biography on the story of Father George Catherine.

Do you want to tell us a little bit about who was

Father Catherine? Father Catherine, George Catherine, he was born in 1898 and he died in 1989. So he was born in

Austria in a little village in the Austrian Tyro,

up in the high up in the Alps, the village of Fis.

His family, very pious Catholics, they were influenced by the redemptuous fathers from

Innsbruck, actually.

And one little story was that Mrs. Catharine, the mother of the family, before she was married, she was getting on in years.

She was approaching 30 and wondering what was going to happen, if she was going to get married or not.

So there was a redemptress priest up there preaching a parish mission. And she approached

the priest and said, Father, you know, what should I do in terms of marriage? And he said,

you will be approached by three men asking your handed marriage, take the third. And that is how

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