Blessed James Miller: An Unsung Hero Among American Saints
COMMENTARY: His short life is the stuff of movies: farm boy from the heartland, football coach, teacher, missionary and heroic martyr.
COMMENTARY: His short life is the stuff of movies: farm boy from the heartland, football coach, teacher, missionary and heroic martyr.
Beatified Sept. 6 in Veszprém, Hungary, the young factory worker gave her life resisting a Soviet soldier’s assault in 1945.
This ceremony determines the final step of the canonization process through a vote to set the date on which the blessed will be proclaimed a saint.
Leaving behind the comforts of Spain, Blessed Ascensión sailed to Peru, where she educated the poor and founded a missionary order.
Blessed Anne, the protégé of St. Teresa of Ávila and a patroness of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, was beatified Sunday in Belgium
SAINTS & ART: Sister Marie-Anne founded the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Anne, with a mission to teach “poor country children,” in 1850.
Only a God who had known the inside of a tomb could promise to redeem such a life, turning it into eternal glory.
Callo was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 1987. His feast day is March 19.
“May their example of faith to Christ help us all, especially Christians who are persecuted in various parts of the world, to bear witness to the Gospel courageously.”
Sister Paschalis Jahn and nine fellow Elizabethan sisters were beatified Saturday in Wroclaw, Poland.
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