New canonizations.Vatican City--The following canonizations took place on October 3, 2004: * Charles I yon Habsburg (1887-1922) was proclaimed emperor of Austria The phrase Emperor of Austria describes an hereditary imperial title and position proclaimed in 1804 by the Austrian Habsburg Holy Roman Emperor Francis II and continually held by him and his immediate successors until the Habsburg dynasty was overthrown in 1918. in 1916. In March 1919 he was exiled from that country and formally stripped of his office by the Austrian Parliament that April. He died at age 34 in exile on the Portuguese island of Madeira. Charles was married to Princess Zita of the Bourbons of Parma. On their wedding day, he told her: "Now we must take one another to heaven," recalled Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins last April, during the ceremony to promulgate To officially announce, to publish, to make known to the public; to formally announce a statute or a decision by a court. the decree recognizing a miracle through the Austrian monarch's intercession. The couple had eight children. * Anne Catherine Emmerich Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich (German: Anna Katharina Emmerick, born September 8, 1774 - died February 9, 1824) was a Roman Catholic Augustinian nun, stigmatic, mystic, visionary and ecstatic. (1774-1824), a professed nun of the Order of Canonesses A canoness is a member of a religious community of women (nuns) living a simple life. Many communities observe the monastic rule of Saint Augustine. The name corresponds to the male equivalent, a canon. The origin and rules are common to both. Regular of St. Augustine. "She bore the stigmata of the Lord's passion and received extraordinary charisms that she used to console numerous visitors. From her bed, she carried out a great and fruitful apostolate a·pos·to·late n. 1. The office, duties, or mission of an apostle. 2. An association of individuals for the dissemination of a religion or doctrine. ," said Cardinal Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Sainthood Causes, last July when reading the decree recognizing a miracle. Ex-cloistered by the Napoleonic invasion (which dissolved religious houses according to the spirit of the French Revolution of 1789), and a stigmatized invalid, the Augustinian religious tried to write down the daily visions of the supernatural which she herself considered ineffable. German writer Clemens Brentano met her, was converted, and stayed at the foot of her bed copying the visionary's accounts from 1818 to 1824. The result was the book "The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ." Mel Gibson made use of the writings in the production of his film "The Passion of the Christ." However, as pointed out in our October edition, these writings were not used in the process for canonization canonization (kăn'ənĭzā`shən), in the Roman Catholic Church, process by which a person is classified as a saint. It is now performed at Rome alone, although in the Middle Ages and earlier bishops elsewhere used to canonize. (p. 28). * Pierre Vigne (1670-1740), French priest, founder of the Congregation of the Religious of the Most Holy Sacrament. * Joseph Marie Cassant (1878-1903), French priest and Trappist monk. He patiently suffered tuberculosis, which caused his death at age 25. (Zenit, Sept. 20, 2004). * Maria Ludovica (Antonina) de Angelis (1880-1962), religious of the Daughters of Our Lady of Mercy, born in Italy. As part of her apostolate, she moved to La Plata, Argentina, to work in a pediatric pediatric /pe·di·at·ric/ (pe?de-at´rik) pertaining to the health of children. pe·di·at·ric adj. Of or relating to pediatrics. hospital. She spent the rest of her life in that city. To date, John Paul II John Paul II, 1920–2005, pope (1978–2005), a Pole (b. Wadowice) named Karol Józef Wojtyła; successor of John Paul I. He was the first non-Italian pope elected since the Dutch Adrian VI (1522–23) and the first Polish and Slavic pope. has proclaimed 1,333 blessed and 482 saints. |
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