Crookston Diocese to Open Sister Annella Zervas’ Sainthood Cause in October
It’s the first sainthood cause to be opened in the northerly Minnesota diocese.
It’s the first sainthood cause to be opened in the northerly Minnesota diocese.
If the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints agrees, Sister Zervas will be declared “venerable.” The next title, “blessed,” comes after at least one verified miracle is attributed to her intercession.
The congress was the prelude to the start of the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage’s Marian Route, which begins with Pentecost Sunday Mass and culminates at the national congress in Indianapolis.
Only a few years after being rocked by a clergy-sex-abuse cover-up, the Diocese of Crookston is embracing its outsize role in the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage as a sign of healing and a moment of renewal.
Preliminary steps are being taken that could lead to opening a cause for the canonization of local Benedictine.
The film features the testimonies of five men and women who share how the true presence of Jesus in the Eucharist has transformed their lives.
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