Rhoda Wise/ Mother Angelica story on secular Cleveland TV news (Very Positive )

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With all the bad press Catholicism is drawing lately, I was heartened by the positivity of this Cleveland TV news story that aired last night about Rhoda Wise and her shrine in Canton. Really nice story and interviews. Although Canonization “soon” might be a little optimistic given how slow the wheels turn.

It would be great if Canton could get even one canonized saint. Canton is in a bad way economically and could use more pilgrim traffic. It gets some already from people coming to Rhoda’s shrine and taking the local “Mother Angelica Tour” which goes around to different sites associated with her.

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Could a Canton 'miracle worker' become a canonized saint?

The push for Rhoda Wise's sainthood stems from a tale of miracles and healing.
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Yes, a bunch of times.
The first time was a few years ago and I was immediately met at the door by the first lady interviewed in the video and taken to sit in “Jesus’ Chair”. I was just overwhelmed. I was NOT expecting to “sit where Jesus (purportedly) sat”. Those who visit often sit in the chair for a couple minutes. I’m sure if Rhoda ever does get beatified, they will have to stop people from sitting in it or it will break as it’s already quite old and not terribly robust, and too many visitors would wear it out.

They have a Mass there for her cause once a month and I have been to a couple of those, they are always at capacity for the small house, which has actually been about doubled in size since she lived in it. When she was living there, the entire house could have fit in the living room I’m sitting in now. It was only 3 teeny rooms.
 
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EWTN is pushing her canonization, I believe as kind of a “prequel” to when they start pushing Mother Angelica’s. That is the main reason I think Rhoda might have a good chance of getting canonized. There’s also already been a possible miracle submitted to the Vatican some time ago.

I went back and looked up old newspaper articles from her life and just after her death. On the nights when she was expecting an apparition, there would be huge crowds outside her house in the street. She had a huge funeral, something like 14,000 people viewed her bier, and then pilgrims kept showing up at her former home for years. Of course by the time I came along less than 20 years later, things like that weren’t talked about because apparitions and “victim souls” weren’t in vogue in the 1960s. Neither of my parents were from NE OH and only moved there a few years before I was born, so they didn’t know about this either.
 
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Here’s a bonus pic someone just shared this morning, of Mother Angelica in her sick bed with Raymond Arroyo and Rhoda’s picture of Jesus right above the bed.

Rhoda had one of the religious sisters she knew paint the picture of Jesus based on her description, but she painted his eyes herself because she had complained the eyes didn’t look right and the sister said, “well then, YOU paint them.”

After Rhoda died, she left the picture to Mother A who kept it in her room until she died, and then it was sent back to Rhoda’s house where it hangs in the bedroom shrine.

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