Trad West (@trad_west_)

You should wear a St. Benedict Medal. Why? It’s one of the Church’s most powerful sacramentals. But most people have no idea where it comes from or what it really says. The story of the Saint Benedict Medal & its battle cry - a 🧵✝️ ...

The Cross was placed directly over the grave of the First Man. Have you ever noticed that in classical paintings of the Crucifixion, there is a skull at the base of the Cross? It is the Skull of Adam. Tradition holds that the hill of Golgotha ("The Place of the Skull") was the burial place of Ada...

The priest who died on the Titanic to hear confessions. Father Thomas Byles was offered a seat on a lifeboat twice. He refused both times to hear confessions and comfort the people onboard. When the ship struck the iceberg, he gathered passengers on the rear deck. Survivors reported that he stoo...

Hiroshima, 1945. A small Jesuit house stood just 8 blocks from where the atomic bomb exploded. Everything around it was vaporized. But the house still stood. The priests inside? Unharmed. Why? They prayed the Rosary daily. The miracle of Hiroshima - a 🧵 ...

The year was 1187, and the Jerusalem sun burned over a land at war. Jerusalem had fallen, claimed by Saladin for the Crescent moon. This could not go unanswered. The Pope called for a Crusade, and one king answered with fire & steel: Richard the Lionheart - a 🧵✝️ ...

Why do exorcists use Latin? And why do demons hate it? It’s not aesthetic. It’s not nostalgia. It’s authority. And fallen spirits know exactly what it means. This isn’t superstition. It’s tradition backed by God's power - a 🧵🇻🇦✝️ ...

The year was 1683 & the armies of Islam stood at the gates of Vienna The city was starving. The walls were crumbling. But inside the chapels, the priests kept saying Mass. This is the miracle of Vienna & the cavalry charge that changed history forever - a 🧵✝️ ...

The year was 33 AD, and the tomb was empty. Two disciples entered, Peter and John, finding not one, but two cloths. A contradiction? No. A revelation. One was the Shroud of Turin, the other? The Sudarium of Oviedo, proof of the Passion of our Lord - a 🧵✝️☦️ ...

Do we know how Jesus Christ looked like? Is there any evidence of His divinity? Yes. There is: The Holy Shroud of Turin. A groundbreaking X-ray study re-dated it at 2,000 years old, but that’s onlythe tip of the Iceberg. Science still can't explain it! Strap in fellas - a🧵 ...