VATICAN - The Church is to have five new Saints, exemplary educators, preachers, confessors, devoted to serving others and promoting ecumenism

Friday, 23 February 2007

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) - In the course of an Ordinary Public Consistory held this morning in the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI established that on Friday, May 11, during the course of his Apostolic journey to Brazil, he will canonize Blessed Antonio de Santa Ana. The Brazilian Friar Antonio di Sant’Anna (Antonio Galvão de França), of the Order of Friars Minor of Alcantarini, founder of the Convent of the Conceptionists Recolhimento da Luz, was known and esteemed as a preacher and confessor.
The Pope further established that in Rome on Sunday, June 3, he will canonize three priests, Blessed George Preca, Szymon of Lipnica, Charles of St. Andrew and a French nun, Blessed Marie Eugenie de Jesus.
Maltese George Preca founder of the M.U.S.E.U.M Societas Doctrinae Christianae for education; Polish born Simone da Lipnica of the Order of Friars Minor a great preacher and deeply devoted to the Holy name of Jesus, he died of plague while assisting the sick in Krakow; Dutch born Charles of St Andrew (Johan Andreas Houben), a member of the Congregation of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, an apostle of ecumenism and tireless confessor; Maria Eugenia de Jesus (Anna Eugenia Milleret de Brou), foundress of the Institute of the Sisters of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, wished her sisters to be contemplatives in action, with Jesus in the Eucharist at the centre of their lives. (S.L.) (Agenzia Fides 23/2/2007; righe 17, parole 218)


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