From Reuters:
“Pope declares 10 new saints,
including Dutch priest killed by Nazis”
(Pope Francis attends a Holy Mass
in St. Peter's Square as he canonises ten new saints at the Vatican, May 15,
2022.)
Pope Francis on Sunday declared
10 people saints of the Roman Catholic Church, including an anti-Nazi Dutch
priest murdered in the Dachau concentration camp and a French hermit monk
assassinated in Algeria. The 85-year-old pope, who has been using a wheel chair
due to knee and leg pain, was driven to the altar at the start of the ceremony,
which was attended by more than 50,000 people in St Peter's Square. It was the
one of the largest gatherings there since the easing of COVID restrictions
earlier this year. Francis limped to a chair behind the altar but stood to
individually greet some participants. He read his homily while seated but stood
during other parts of the Mass and read his homily in a strong voice, often
going off script, and walked to greet cardinals afterwards. Francis read the
canonisation proclamations while seated in front of the altar and 10 cheers
went up in the crowd as he officially declared each of 10 saints.
Titus Brandsma, who was a member
of the Carmelite religious order and served as president of the Catholic
university at Nijmegen, began speaking out against Nazi ideology even before
World War Two and the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940. During the
Nazi occupation, he spoke out against anti-Jewish laws. He urged Dutch Catholic
newspapers not to print Nazi propaganda. He was arrested in 1942 and held in
Dutch jails before being taken to Dachau, near Munich, where he was subjected
to biological experimentation and killed by lethal injection the same year at
the age of 61. He is considered a martyr, having died because of what the
Church calls "in hatred of the faith".
The other well-known new saint is
Charles de Foucauld, a 19th century French nobleman, soldier, explorer, and
geographer who later experienced a personal conversion and became a priest,
living as a hermit among the poor Berbers in North Africa. He published the
first Tuareg-French dictionary and translated Tuareg poems into French. De
Foucauld was killed during a kidnapping attempt by Bedouin tribal raiders in
Algeria in 1916.
The other eight who were declared
saints on Sunday included Devasahayam Pillai, who was killed for converting to
Christianity in 18th century India, and Cesar de Bus, a 16th century French
priest who founded a religious order.
(Pope Francis leads a Holy Mass
in St. Peter's Square as he canonises ten new saints at the Vatican, May 15,
2022)
The others were two Italian
priests, three Italian nuns and a French nun, all of whom who lived between the
16th and 20th centuries. "These saints favoured the spiritual and social
growth of their nations and the whole human family, while sadly in the world
today, distances are widening, tensions and wars are increasing," Francis
said after the Mass. World leaders had to be "protagonists of peace and
not of war," he said in an apparent reference to Ukraine. Miracles have
been attributed to all the new saints.
The Roman Catholic Church teaches
that only God performs miracles, but that saints, who are believed to be with
God in heaven, intercede on behalf of people who pray to them. Several other
Catholics killed in Nazi concentration camps have already been declared saints.
They include Polish priest Maximilian Kolbe and Sister Edith Stein, a German
nun who converted from Judaism. Both were killed in the Auschwitz camp in
Nazi-occupied Poland.
^ Here are the whole list of the
10 new Catholic Saints:
Charles de Foucauld: French
diocesan priest, founder of ten religious congregations and eight associations
of spiritual life have emerged from his testimony and charism.
Titus Bradsma Born in the
Netherlands in 1881, he entered the order of Carmelite friars and was ordained
a priest in 1905. This Carmelite priest was assassinated in the Dauchau
concentration camp (Germany) for opposing the Nazi regime.
Lazaruscalled Devasahayam,
layman, martyr, who was born in the eighteenth century in the village of
Nattalam (India) and was murdered, out of hatred for the faith, in Aralvaimozhy
(India).
Cesar de Buspriest,
founder of the Congregation of the Fathers of Christian Doctrine
(Doctrinaires), who was born on February 3, 1544 in Cavaillon (France) and died
on April 15, 1607 in Avignon (France).
Luigi Maria Palazzolopriest,
founder of the Institute of the Sisters of the Poor (Palazzolo Institute).
Giustino Maria
Russolillopriest, founder of the Society of Divine Vocations and the
Congregation of the Sisters of Divine Vocations.
Marie River French nun,
founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary.
Maria Francesca di Gesu
(born Anna Maria Rubatto), founder of the Tertiary Capuchin Sisters of Loano,
who was born in Carmagnola (Italy) and died in Montevideo (Uruguay).
Maria de Jesus Santocanale
She is the founder of the Congregation of the Capuchin Sisters of the
Immaculate of Lourdes. She was born in 1852 in Palermo (Italy) and died in 1923
in Cinisi (Italy).
Maria Domenica Mantovani,
co-founder and first superior general of the Institute of the Little Sisters of
the Holy Family.
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