Saints Archives

Saint’s relics are a miraculous must-see in secular Russia

Xenia Loutchenko, a Moscow-based commentator on church affairs, said, “The thing is, people don’t have much to hope for with the current state of our health care, what people hear from doctors and bureaucrats: They have nothing else to rely on, other than to go and pray.”

Shock and outrage surround theft of St. John Bosco’s brain

After a reliquary containing a small piece of the brain of St. John Bosco, founder of the Salesian religious order and a legendary pastor of youth, was stolen from a basilica in northern Italy dedicated to his memory Saturday night, devotees are saying, ‘You can steal a relic, but you can’t rob us of our saint.’

‘Grunt Padre’ could be patron saint of Memorial Day
- Church in the US
- May 29, 2017
Archbishop Timothy Broglio has formally closed the archdiocesan phase of the cause of canonization for Father Vincent Capodanno, a Maryknoll priest and Navy chaplain killed during a fierce battle in Vietnam almost 50 years ago at the age of 38. The chaplain was nicknamed the “Grunt Padre,” because of his personal care for and ministry to the “grunts,” meaning members of the infantry.
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Child saints have much to teach the Church on suffering, sacrifice
- Interviews, Pope in Fatima
- May 10, 2017
The canonization of Fatima visionaries Jacinta and Francisco Marto will put the spotlight on the heroic holiness possible in children. Austin Ruse hopes it will “open the floodgates” in allowing other saintly children to be canonized. He highlights three children of this generation who lived lives of heroic virtue in his new book ‘Littlest Suffering Souls: Children Whose Short Lives Point Us to Christ.’
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American Padre Pio moves a step closer to sainthood
- Vatican
- May 6, 2017
Pope Francis on Thursday approved a rafter of sainthood decisions, including a miracle attributed to Capuchin Father Solanus Casey clearing the way for his beatification. Casey is more or less the American Padre Pio, a Capuchin healer and wonder-worker known for his simplicity, his availability, and his love for ordinary people.
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