Who's Your Favorite American or Canadian Saint or Blessed?

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There is also Venerable Felix de Andreis, the priest of the Congregation of the Mission of St. Vincent de Paul, who helped to lay the foundation for the many Vincentian Colleges and Seminaries that have graced our nation.
 
After hearing all this, it never really occurred to me that there were so many American and Canadian saints and blesseds. 😱…🤔

I forget what venerable means, is it the same as blessed, or comes before…I will go look.
 
Ugggh, I love my saints, but what a process and number of different titles. I think I will just proclaim my own saints from now on. 🙂
 
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Hmmm…maybe I just need some caffeine to take this all in. It’s simply one of those mornings, I guees.


Can’t we just have three? And you guys tell me which one you like most?
 
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JUST THREE? 😠 One of the beauties of having so many saints is that we can each find one or several that appeals to our needs, temperament and priorities as Catholics.

If I have to nominate just one, it will be my saintly Grandmother Katherine, the spiritual matriarch of my family, although her cause for canonization has not yet been introduced, and likely never will be.
 
Oh, ok, what about 7 seven then??

By the way… anyone who mentioned a person below a Blessed gets an extra half day in purgatory. 🙂

No, No. I’m quite serious.
 
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anyone who mentioned a person below a blessed gets an extra half day in purgatory
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That dubious declaration is now a part of your official written record, and will likely have a somewhat negative impact when your own cause for canonization is one day presented to the Vatican 😠
 
@christofirst
🤔 … mehhhh!

Horse feathers, rubbish, nonsense!

(Do you really think so? ) 😐
 
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It’s nice to have American saints now though. When I was growing up, we pretty much had Mother Cabrini, and that was it. Plus her name was mostly used for a bunch of high crime housing projects at that time 😦 so lots of people would think of the housing project when they heard “Cabrini” and not of the saint.

It was a really big deal when Mother Seton got canonized. Finally a true US saint. And then we got St. John Newman and St. Katherine Drexel (who was the first US-born saint) right after that, and several more since. Between that, and the US finally getting a Marian apparition approved (Our Lady of Good Help), I’m beginning to feel like less of a second-class citizen 🙂
 
My favorite American Saint is Katherine Drexel. She was one of the wealthiest heiresses in the United States, at the time. She was born the same year that Our Lady appeared to Bernadette, 1858. She’s quite dear to me. By the end of her life, she had spent it all on helping the Native American and African American people in the United States. She became a nun at an early age and founded her own religious community. (As I often do, I feel compelled to add a little video of my favorite saints that tells her story well for those who might want to learn more.)
 
Unfortunately, her shrine is closing at the end of the year and being sold. They will likely move her tomb to the Philadelphia basilica.
I hope to get to the shrine one last time before it shuts down. It’s a lovely place.

The last time I went, an unruly small child whose father was not watching climbed up on the saint’s tomb and started yelling Look at me Daddy. The embarrassed father quickly removed his daughter and gave her a lecture. But I thought St. Katherine would have smiled even though the kid was way out of line, because she loved children so much.
 
St. John Paul II. I always felt privileged that he was our Pontiff for so many years and the fact that I was able to attend a Mass he said in Philadelphia. Yet it goes far beyond that. The first time He came out on the balcony as the Pope and said ’ They have called him from a distant country, distant but always so close through the Communion in the Christian faith and tradition…’ and that reassuring smile you knew there was something Special about this man. I was a kid, but I felt safe with this Shepherd of the Church. He went through so much in his life, and after becoming Pope the assassination attempt etc. John Paul did alot for the Church he loved so much over the 27 years he was our Pontiff. He was a true apostle of Jesus Christ, who now resides in heaven and is still looking after us.🦋🦋🦋.
 
Bucks County mayor wants to preserve the chapel, and the Sisters’ cemetery will also be preserved. But Sister Katharine’s remains will likely go to Philadelphia. Which is good in that more people will visit her there, but the local residents really hate this whole thing. It’s a lovely property.
 
Hey, it may well be that this little imp becomes a religious herself after that close contact with a first class relic. Kids rarely know what trouble they are getting themselves into.
 
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Dorothy Day. I love her much, but she was a bit too rowdy, I think, to be canonized.
 
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I’ll just add my forum-related purgatorial half-day to all the other days waiting for me 😆😆😆
 
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