Word: philadelphia
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...five years later was named head of the nation's Redemptorist missions. After two years he asked to be relieved of the administrative burden, which made him an unlikely candidate to be a bishop. But Neumann's quiet spiritual stamina appealed to Francis Kenrick, who had left Philadelphia to become Archbishop of Baltimore. When Neumann heard that Kenrick was recommending him as his successor in Philadelphia, he beseeched nuns to pray against such an appointment, which he considered "a grave calamity for the church...
...churches at the rate of one almost every month, and devoted much care to the completion of the cathedral roof. He was particularly concerned with the building of Catholic schools, for he said openly that public schools were dens of immorality and heresy. When he became bishop, only 500 Philadelphia children went to parochial schools; within three years that number rose...
Michael Flanigan of West Philadelphia, Pa. In 1963, when he was six, doctors gave him only six months to live because of what they considered an incurable case of Ewing's sarcoma, a bone cancer. Several times his parents carried Michael to the Neumann Shrine at Philadelphia's Church of St. Peter the Apostle, where the bishop's body is on display behind glass in the altar. Six months after the diagnosis was made, there were no signs of the disease...
...three of these healed people are still alive and will attend the open-air ceremony at St. Peter's when John Neumann is canonized by Pope Paul. John Cardinal Krol, Neumann's successor six times removed in the Philadelphia see, will join the Pope in celebrating Mass for some 20,000 people. Back home, Apostolic Delegate Jean Jadot will conduct Mass at the Aston, Pa., mother house of a nuns' order founded by Neumann, while ethnic delegations will parade to the Philadelphia shrine...
...donated to a needy family, signifying that Neumann gave away much of his personal clothing, food and money to the poor. Because of this, the most fitting tribute for America's new saint is a description of his crowded 1860 funeral, written with Main Line disdain in the Philadelphia Bulletin: "The chances of pickpockets were superior, had the pickings been desirable, but the ragged outcasts and very humble citizens with an infusion of colored little ones who made up the motley crew offered no tempting inducements for the light finger...