Word: sainthood
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...thumbs, plucking out his hairs, heaping live coals on his body. Escaping after 14 months he went back to the scene of his captivity three years later to establish a mission. As he entered a cabin an Iroquois tomahawk cleaved his skull, starting him on the road to sainthood...
...youth. The two met, were friends until Don Bosco died in 1888.* Thereafter Achille Ratti rose in the Church as Vatican Librarian, Apostolic Visitor to Poland, Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal and Pope. And Don Bosco, whom he called "a man as great as the world," became a candidate for sainthood. His cause was well advanced by the time Pius XI donned the white soutane in 1922. The Pope exhibited elaborate impartiality in the case by once annulling a session of Cardinals, causing them to deliberate more carefully. But once it was settled and the time approached for public canonization ceremonies...
...such as 17th Century French peasants wore. (In her later years St. Louise wore a form of widow's weeds.) The "Loyola Unit" of the Sisters of Charity were the only U. S. nuns to go overseas during the War. U. S. Sisters have their own candidate for Sainthood: Venerable Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) who founded a U. S. branch in Maryland and whose cause is being promoted for beatification (TIME...
...activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical cases. Padre Pio and Therese Neumann were forbidden to receive pilgrims. Padre Pio was ordered to cease singing mass in the Apulian village where a cult almost of sainthood has grown up around him. The Holy Office put on the Index Expurgatorius the large amount of mystic literature written around Padre Pio, and suppressed a community of women called the "Little Hosts" which, founded in his honor, had grown too impassioned and hysterical. Also disciplined were the "Little Victims...
...dozen languages, sold 60,000 copies. Known first to Dublin, then to the Catholic world, Matt Talbot's life was increasingly publicized until last week, when it became known in the U. S. that three weeks ago the first step was taken towards his beatification, prelude to canonization (sainthood...