J.M.J.
Our Blessed Lady leads us infallibly to her Divine Son. Her sanctity attracts us. We want to become holier when we encounter Mary.
Ponder those whose names are listed below. Each has a connection to the United States of America, and each is being considered for Canonization.
Five are "Blessed," while seven are "Venerable," and seventeen are the "Servant of God."
BLESSED (5)
1. Father Solanus Casey (1870-1959) . . . born in Wisconsin . . . Franciscan Capuchin . .
. priest simplex, that is, he did not
enjoy faculties to hear Confessions . . . encouraged
thousands of those who came to him for prayer . . . Spiritual Director . . .
loved the violin . . . Feast Day: July 30th
2. Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich (1901-1927)
. . . born in New Jersey . . . Ruthenian Catholic . . . Religious . . . Sister of Charity . . . mystic
. . . as a novice, she anonymously wrote the spiritual conferences for the
professed Sisters . . . her brother was a priest . . . died at age twenty-six .
. . Feast Day: May 8th
3. Carlos Manuel
Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago (1918-1963) .
. . born in Puerto Rico . . . layman . . . chronically ill from ulcerative
colitis . . . excellent student whose health prevented him from continuing in
school . . . loved the Sacred Liturgy, especially the Easter Vigil of the night
of Holy Saturday, exclaiming, Vivimos
para esa noche (“We live for that night”) . . . played the organ
during Mass . . . translated some liturgical texts
into Spanish . . . practiced poverty, owning only one pair of shoes . . . died
at age forty-four from rectal cancer . . . the first Caribbean-born layman
to be beatified . . . Feast Day: July 13th/May 4th
4. Father Stanley Rother (1935-1981) . . . born in Oklahoma . . . attended Mount Saint
Mary’s Seminary . . . diocesan priest who had a mission in Guatemala and was
martyred there . . . a relative of his lives in our Diocese . . . Feast Day: July 28th
5. Father Francis Xavier Seelos (1819-1867) . . . born in Germany . . . Religious . . . Congregation of
the Most Holy Redeemer . . . ordained a priest in Baltimore . . . lived in
Pittsburgh with Saint John Neumann . . . proposed as a candidate for the Office
of Bishop but was excused by Pope Blessed Pius IX . . . having cared for the
victims of yellow fever, he contracted the disease and died from it at age
forty-eight . . . Feast Day: October 5th
VENERABLE (7)
1. Bishop Frederic Baraga
(1797-1868) . . . born
in Slovenia . . . ordained a priest in Ljubljana . . . missionary to the United
States . . . spoke eight languages fluently . . . grammarian of a Native
American language, Ojibway . . . the first Bishop of Marquette, Michigan
2. Bishop Alphonse Gallegos
(1931-1991) . . . born in New Mexico . . .
Religious . . . Order of Augustinian Recollects . . . Auxiliary Bishop of
Sacramento . . . ministered to street gangs . . . “The Bishop of the Barrios” .
. . struck by a car and killed
3. Mother Henriette Díaz DeLille (1813-1862)
. . . born in Louisiana . . . Creole . . . a Religious Foundress . . . Sisters
of the Holy Family . . . died at age forty-nine in New Orleans during the Civil
War when the city was occupied by the Union Army
4. Father Patrick Peyton (1909-1992) .
. . born in Ireland . . . lived in the United States for many years . . . Congregation
of the Holy Cross . . . promoted the recitation of the Most Holy Rosary . . . “The
Family that prays together, stays together” . . . confidant of many in
Hollywood
5. Archbishop Fulton Sheen (1895-1979)
. . . born in Illinois . . . attended Saint Paul Seminary . . . well-known via
books, radio and television . . . encouraged priests to make the daily “Hour
Hour” before the Most Blessed Sacrament . . . may be beatified before the end
of 2019
6. Pierre Toussaint (1766-1853)
. . . born in Haiti . . . lived in New York City . . . a former slave . . . husband
to a former slave whose freedom he purchased as well as a father . . . hairdresser
. . . attended daily Mass for sixty-six years in Saint Peter Church, New York .
. . philanthropist
7. Father Félix Varela y Morales (1788-1853) . . . born in Cuba . . . ordained a priest at age 23 for
the Diocese of San Cristóbal de la Habana . . . taught philosophy, physics and
chemistry . . . argued for the abolition of slavery in Cuba . . . served as a
priest in New York City and later as the Vicar General of the Diocese of New
York . . . theological consultant for the U. S. Bishops who wrote the Baltimore Catechism . . . developed
severe asthma . . . died in Saint Augustine, Florida
THE SERVANT OF GOD (19)
1. Sister Thea Bowman (1937-1990)
. . . born in Mississippi . . . African-American . . . convert from Methodism .
. . Religious . . . Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration . . . obtained
the Ph.D. in English . . . advocated on behalf of Catholic African-Americans
2. Father Vincent Capodanno (1929-1967)
. . . born in New York . . . Maryknoll Missionary . . . U.S. Navy Chaplain
assigned to a Marine Corps unit . . . killed in action in Vietnam . . . Medal
of Honor and Purple Heart recipient . . . “The Grunt Padre”
3. Father Walter Ciszek (1904-1984) . . . born in Pennsylvania . . . Society of Jesus . .
. Missionary . . . imprisoned in the Soviet Union for almost twenty-three years
. . . remembered for With God in Russia
(1964) and He Leadeth Me (1973)
4. Terence Cardinal Cooke (1921-1983)
. . . born in New York . . . Archbishop of New York . . . founded “Courage,” an
outreach to men and women with same-sex attraction and promoted the pro-life
cause . . . suffered heroically with leukemia
5. Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
. . . born in New York . . . wife and mother . . . a “freethinker” who
converted to the Church . . . with Peter Maurin founded the Catholic
Worker Movement . . . advocated “distributism” as a way between capitalism and
socialism
6. Catherine de Heuck Doherty (1896-1985)
. . . born in Russia . . . founded “Madonna House” in Ontario . . . cheerfully
served the poor . . . friend of Bishop Dudley’s . . . related to the de Heuck
Family from Aberdeen
7. Black Elk (1863-1950)
. . . (Heȟáka Sápa) . . . born
in Montana . . . second cousin of Crazy Horse’s . . . convert to the
Church . . . catechist . . . buried in Saint Agnes Cemetery in Manderson, South
Dakota, on the Pine Ridge Reservation . . . the Cause for Canonization was
begun in the Diocese of Rapid City
8. Cora Evans (1904-1957) . . . born in Utah . . . wife and mother . . . convert
from Mormonism . . . mystic
9. Monsignor Edward Flanagan (1886-1948)
. . . born in Ireland . . . priest in the United States . . . founded “Boys
Town” . . . worked with young men in moral danger and those considered
“troublemakers” . . . the subject of a famous Hollywood movie
10. Father Demetrius Augustine
Gallizten (1770-1840) . . . born in the Netherlands . . . from an
aristocratic family . . . traveled throughout the United States . . . was
ordained by Archbishop John Carroll of Baltimore . . . honored as “The Apostle
to the Alleghenies”
11. Father John Hardon (1914-2000)
. . . born in Pennsylvania . . . Society of Jesus . . . theologian . . . spoke
at the Fatima Family Shrine in Alexandria during several summers during the
1990s . . . prolific author . . . his The
Catholic Catechism (1975) and Modern
Catholic Dictionary (1980) informed many
12. Mother Mary Alphonsa Hawthorne Lathrop (1851-1920) . . . born in Massachusetts . . . the daughter of American
author, Nathaniel Hawthorne . . . wife and later widow . . . convert . . . the
Foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne
13. Father Emil Kapaun (1916-1951)
. . . born in Kansas . . . a priest of the Diocese of Wichita . . . U. S.
Army Chaplain during World War II and the Korean War . . . died under hostile
circumstances in Korea . . . posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor and the
Purple Heart . . . had a relative in our Diocese
14. Father Joseph Kentenich (1885-1968) . . . born in Germany
. . . Religious . . . Pallottine
Fathers . . . Priest . . . founded the Schoenstatt Sisters of Mary
. . . because of his opposition to Nazism, he was arrested by the Gestapo,
eventually interred at Dachau . . . destined to die in the gas chamber but rescued
by a S.S. guard . . . founded more branches of Schoenstatt . . . became the parish
priest of German speakers in Milwaukee . . . died in Germany on the Feast of
Our Lady of Sorrows
15. Father Eusebio Kino (1645-1711) . . . born in Italy . . . Religious . . . Society of Jesus .
. . Priest . . . missionary to New Spain . . . served in Mexico, Baja,
California and present-day Arizona . . . he established 24 missions
16. Mother Mary Lange (1784-1882)
. . . born in Cuba in a Haitian community . . . immigrated to the United
States . . . Religious and Foundress . . . a member of the first Religious
Order in the United States composed of women African descent, the Oblate
Sisters of Providence . . . worked to provide girls with a Catholic education
17. Bishop Vincent McCauley (1906-1982)
. . . born in Iowa . . . studied at Creighton and Notre Dame . . . Religious .
. . Congregation of the Holy Cross . . . Missionary to peoples of Asia and
Africa . . . Bishop in Uganda
18. Sister Blandina Segale (1850-1941)
. . . born in Italy . . . settled with her family in Cincinnati at age four . .
. Religious and Missionary . . . Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati . . . worked
for many years in New Mexico
19. Father Augustus Tolton
(1854-1897) . . . born in Missouri . . . a
former slave . . . the first Catholic priest in the United States known to be
black when he was ordained in Rome in 1886 . . . responsible for the development
and construction of Saint Monica Church on Chicago’s South Side . . . died at
age forty-three in Chicago during the heat wave of 1897
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