Word: sainthood
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...biographers (Father Joseph B. Code of St. Ambrose College, Davenport, Iowa) says that she "inaugurated practically every work of Catholic social welfare in the U. S." Soon after her death U. S. Catholics perceived in her an eminent candidate for the Church's great posthumous tribute: sainthood. Though eight residents of North America have been canonized (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), there are as yet no native-born U. S. saints. In 1880 the late great James Cardinal Gibbons, then Archbishop of Baltimore, began the movement to have Mother Seton canonized; his successor Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley continued...
Next candidates for North American sainthood are Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York, foundress of the Sisters of Charity...
...will she have achieved sainthood. As "Blessed" she must perform at least two more miracles. After these have been recognized and discussed the Pope may declare her a saint, order her canonization...
Mother Mary Magdalene's sainthood-candidacy is supported by the Very Rev. Albert Kleber of St. Meinrad's, Ind. Chosen as "devil's advocate," whose duty it is to find flaws in all arguments in her favor, was the Rev. Peter C. Gannon, editor of The True Voice, Catholic weekly...
...saved for the Church of Rome the Catholic Germany of today"; St. Therese de Lisieux, the "Little Flower" Carmelite nun who became a bride of Christ when she was only 15, died when she was 24. At present there is only one U. S.-born candidate for sainthood. She, Ann Elizabeth Seton, was born in Manhattan in 1774 of Protestant parents. Traveling in Italy she felt drawn toward Catholicism, adopted the Catholic religion in 1805. She founded the Sisters of Charity in the U. S. Her "cause" (candidacy for sainthood) was opened in Baltimore in 1911. Its proponent is Cardinal...