Tulsa-Smith:- emotional...: New saints on the horizon

Sunday, February 22, 2009

New saints on the horizon

No human being is born a saint but a few are chosen to become saints long after death. As it should be for humanity, some great men and wen are immortalized - some would even say, martyred - after death.

That inescapable fact of life has led some cynics to say that saints are those whose misdeeds have long been forgotten by the living.

This picture to the right above is supposed to be the face of Saint Damien - or will that be St. Veuster by October 11, 2009?

{By the way, for some yet unexplained reason, the image has vanished from the frame, as at this update on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - thank God that I had included the original source link earlier on}.

According to this article, Pope Benedict XVI will canonize a total of 10 new saints on April 26 and October 11, 2009.

The nominees and recipients of sainthood are as follows:

[.....Among the first group are Father Arcangelo Tadini (1846-1912), Sister Caterina Volpicelli (1839-1894), theologian Bernardo Tolomei (1272-1348) and Gertrude Caterina Comensoli, (1847-1903), all Italian.

The fifth is Carmelite monk Nuno de Santa Maria Alvares Pereira (1360-1431) of Portugal.

In the second group is Jeanne Jugan (1792-1879) of France who founded the order of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

Alongside her will be Polish archbishop Zygmunt Szczesny Felinski (1822-1895), two Spanish monks - a Dominican, Francisco Coll y Guitart (1812-1875) and a Trappist, Rafael Arnaiz Baron (1911-1938) - and Jozef Damian de Veuster (1840-1889) of Belgium......]

Here are the details of the former Belgian priest's -now Saint Damien - work with lepers in Hawaii in the 19th century.

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Anonymous said...: Good.
Portugal; Sunday, March 15, 2009 11:24:00 PM

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