Word: cabrini
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...formula: "In the most holy name of the Trinity ... for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and the increase of the Christian religion. . . ." Then, with the solemn notes of the Te Deum, and the pomp of a papal High Mass, and the clamor of Roman church bells, Francesca Saverio Cabrini became the first U.S. saint...
Shortly afterward the Cardinal sailed from Manhattan on the S. S. Rex, bound for Vatican City to report to Pope Pius XI and attend the beatification of a woman who may be the first U. S. citizen-saint, Italian-born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini (TIME, Sept. 12). Said the Cardinal before sailing: "I am very glad to do this because I knew her very well and I buried her when she died in Chicago." Last Sunday, by precedent-breaking permission of Eugenic Cardinal Pacelli, Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica (in charge of beatification ceremonies), Cardinal Mundelein celebrated Mass...
...past 16 years, 50 new saints-a record-have been canonized by Pope Pius XI, who has notably speeded up the process, which formerly took from 25 years to several centuries. One candidacy for sainthood which has moved rapidly is that of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, an Italian-born U. S. citizen who founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, died in Chicago in 1917 (TIME, Nov. 8, et ante-). Last month the Sacred Congregation of Rites decreed that Mother Cabrini be beatified and called "Blessed" in St. Peter's in Rome next November-the last...
...every beatification there is a "Devil's Advocate." Last week the Devil's Advocate in Mother Cabrini's case arrived in Manhattan. He was Monsignor Salvatore Natucci of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. It is his duty to cross-examine witnesses, scrutinize evidence with pious skepticism, advance every possible argument against beatification or canonization...
Last week Devil's Advocate Natucci journeyed to a Manhattan Catholic high school named for Mother Cabrini. In a coffin in the chapel-crypt lay her body, removed there from a cemetery five years ago after being identified and reported "well-preserved" - an aid but not an essential to beatification. Last week Monsignor Natucci, his entourage and a few necessary witnesses beheld a second exhumation of Mother Cabrini. At some secret later time, the Devil's Advocate was to sever from the body a limb (which limb would not be revealed) - a "first-class" relic which he would...