Word: sainthood
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...beatified and declared Blessed in 1837. He was Martin de Porres (1579-1639). a mulatto barber whose father was a Spanish nobleman and whose mother was a Negro. A Dominican lay brother, Blessed Martin was a "Father of the Poor." The movement to elevate Blessed Martin to sainthood is being fostered not only by priests who give Porres leaflets to Pullman porters but also by 50,000 members of the Blessed Martin Guild, founded by The Torch, Dominican monthly whose editor is Rev. Edward Hughes 0. P. In the Dominicans' swank Manhattan Church of St. Vincent Ferrer last month...
...last month succeeded the late Francis Cardinal Bourne as Archbishop of Westminster and Primate of 2,200,000 British Catholics. What brought Archbishop Hinsley and his flock to Rome was the impending canonization of Sir Thomas More and John Cardinal Fisher, first Englishmen in years to attain to sainthood (TIME...
...Heart felt piously proud. In Vatican City the Congregation of Sacred Rites met before Pope Pius XI, voted to beatify Mother Philippine Duchesne, founder of the U. S. branch of the Order. Now to be titled "Blessed," this pioneer Madame thus passed the second milestone on the road to sainthood, which she will eventually attain if two miracles are henceforth performed in response to prayers addressed through...
...many saints have lived on earth, not even the wisest hagiologist knows. In the early days of Christendom, anchorites, eremites, monks and vagrants were of such piety that even the animals of the world collaborated with them. This half-forgot-ten aspect of the lore of sainthood was lately recalled by Helen Waddell, author of Peter Abelard. Delving in the Latin works of church fathers, monks and priests from the 4th to the 12th Century, she collected 44 anecdotes, translated them as Beasts & Saints.* Some saintly animal stories...
Still a man of moods, Tarabas suffered fearful remorse, decided to resign his commission, punish himself by becoming a beggar. He had achieved tuberculosis, sainthood, the point of death before he found his victim again...