These days we can see many Maccabees. People,who similar to the Maccabees, fought when it was difficult and when we were the minority. We witnessed many battles of the few facing the many.

Their story is detailed in two ancient texts, Maccabees 1 and Maccabees 2 . Here’s a fun twist: these books didn’t make the cut into the Hebrew Bible but found a home in the Catholic Old ...