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- October 22, 2017
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‘They killed a man but created a saint,’ archbishop says of slain priest
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- September 23, 2017
Father Stanley Rother grew up on a farm near Okarche, Oklahoma. After high school, he left home for seminary in Texas, but he was asked to leave after struggling with Latin. Undeterred, he transferred to the Emmitsburg seminary, where he met Harry J. Flynn, who was three classes ahead of him. Flynn later became Archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis. Rother was martyred in Guatemala. Flynn will be at his beatification on September 23.
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Infant safe after being found abandoned at Minnesota cathedral
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- January 6, 2017
When he first saw the basket with a blanket on top, the custodian thought someone had left laundry on the steps to the church foyer. He then heard a noise from the basket and thought it might be a puppy. When he removed the blanket, he saw the baby’s face.
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Relics of English martyrs draw crowds as part of religious freedom push
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- July 5, 2016
Hundreds of Catholics crowded into a Minnesota cathedral in late June to venerate relics of St. Thomas More and St. John Fisher, two English saints martyred for their faith, and whose relics were on an American tour as part of the U.S. bishops’ annual “Fortnight for Freedom” campaign.
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- October 22, 2017
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