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| St. Paul VI |
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| St. Oscar |
On Sunday (Oct. 14) the Holy father will canonize seven new saints. Two of whom we already know are ST POPE PAUL VI (see Blog 2/7/2018) and ST OSCAR ROMERO. The others are less known to us in the USA.
ST VINCENT ROMANO was born in 1751 and ordained a priest in 1775. He had studied the writings of St. Alphonsus de Liguori and developed a devotion to the Blessed Sacrament. He spent his whole life as a priest in Torre del Greco Mount Vesuvius in 1794. He died in December 1831 of pneumonia and was beatified by Paul VI in 1963.
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| St. Vincent |
He died in 1913. Today his institute has around 250 communities in Italy , Congo , Senegal , Cameroon , Colombia , and Argentina
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| St. Francesco |
ST NUNZIO SULPRIZO (see Blog 12/31/2013) was born in
He recovered from the gangrene and dedicated himself to helping other patients before his health deteriorated again. He died of bone cancer in 1836, when he was only 19 years old.
ST NAZARIA IGNACIA MARCH MESA was born in 1889 in Madrid , Spain Mexico in 1904, and Nazarie met sisters of the Institute of Sisters Mexico City and was assigned to a hospice in Oruro , Bolivia
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| St. Nazaria |
Beginning in 1920, she felt a call to found a new order dedicated to missionary work. In 1925, she founded the Pontifical Crusade, later renamed the Congregation of the Missionary Crusaders of the Church, with the mission to catechize children and adults, support the work of priests, conduct missions, and to print and distribute short religious tracts. Many opposed her work, but Bl. Nazaria pressed on. Her order cared for soldiers on both sides of the 1932-35 war between Paraguay and Bolivia , and she herself survived persecutions in Spain
ST MARIA KATHARINE KASPER was born in Dembach , Germany
After her mother died, Catherine started, with the approval of the bishop of Limburg , Germany