Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints (re: Abp. Fulton J. Sheen)

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****From the Vatican Information Service: tinyurl.com/75obltt

HEROIC VIRTUES
  • Servant of God Sisto Riario Sforza, Italian archbishop of Naples and cardinal of Holy Roman Church (1810-1877).
    - Servant of God Fulton Sheen, American archbishop, and former bishop of Rochester (1895-1979).
  • Servant of God Alvaro del Portillo y Diez de Sollano, Spanish prelate of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (1914-1994).
  • Servant of God Ludwig Tijssen, Dutch diocesan priest (1865-1929).
  • Servant of God Cristobal of St. Catherine (ne: Cristobal Fernando Valladolid), Spanish priest and founder of the Congregation and the Hospital of Jesus of Nazareth in Cordoba (1638-1690).
  • Servant of God Marie of the Sacred Heart (nee Marie Josephte Fitzbach), Canadian widow and founder of the Handmaidens of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, known as the Good Shepherd Sisters of Quebec (1806-1885).
  • Servant of God Mary Angeline Teresa (nee Bridget Teresa McCrory), founder of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm (1893-1984).
  • Servant of God Maria Margit (nee Adelaide Bogner), Hungarian professed nun of the Order of the Visitation (1905-1933).
  • Servant of God Ferdinanda Riva, Italian professed sister of the Institute of Daughters of Charity (1920-1956).
    On 10 May the Holy Father authorised the Congregation to promulgate the decree concerning the martyrdom of Servant of God Juan Huguet y Cardona, Spanish diocesan priest (1913-1936), killed in hatred of the faith in Spain in 1936.
Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen is now “Venerable”.
 
Excellent! This is very exciting news! I can’t wait for the day that Archbishop Fulton Sheen is declared a Saint. Such an amazing ministry and inspiring life lived for Christ. 🙂
 
twopekinguys said:
Our entire Diocese is jumping for joy!
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I’m sure you are! Congratulations! 😃 👍 And I’m sure that Upstate NY is rejoicing too, because now-Venerable Archbishop Sheen was Bishop of Rochester for a time (I’m in the diocese to the immediate east), and he lived and died in NYC and is buried in the crypt of St. Patrick’s Cathedral there (right near the tomb of his adversary, Cardinal Spellman…but that’s another tale for later :rolleyes: , and I digress…😉 )

I also noticed there is another American on the list who was named ‘Venerable’: Mother Angeline Teresa McCrory. She came from Scotland (born in Ireland) to NYC in the 1920s (I think) as a Little Sister of the Poor. She left that community to found another one more in tune with the American mentality of the time, called ‘The Carmelite Sisters of the Aged and Infirm’. She died in 1984, and is buried at the Congregation’s Mother House, Avila on the Hudson, in Germantown, NY. Her Sisters have a nursing home here in my Upstate NY hometown.

So America has now TWO new ‘Venerables’! :extrahappy:

A little bit of ‘good news’ in the wake of the ****** decision by SCOTUS on Obamacare.
 
This is wonderful! We used to get Apb. Fulton J Sheen’s broadcasts here, and I watch the re-runs! This is wonderful, wonderful!
 
The announcement came just over 13 months after Bishop Daniel Jenky of Peoria, Illinois, presented Pope Benedict XVI with two thick volumes about the life of Archbishop Sheen, whose home diocese was Peoria.
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The decree from the Congregation for Saints’ Causes, signed by Pope Benedict, said Archbishop Sheen heroically lived Christian virtues and was “Venerable”. Before he can be beatified, the Vatican must recognise that a miracle has occurred through his intercession.
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catholicherald.co.uk/news/2012/06/28/vatican-declares-archbishop-fulton-sheen-to-be-venerable/

The article mentions that a tribunal of inquiry was sworn in last autumn to investigate a possible miracle involving the healing of a newborn.
 
Here is some information about the miracle that was submitted to Rome.

Read it here.
 
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