More than 80,000 gather for proclamation of six new saints
Topic: St Andre Bessette
Pope celebrates canonisation Mass
Posted on Monday, 18 October 2010 Tags: Mary MacKillop, Saint Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal, Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart, St Andre Bessette, St Camilla Battista Varano, St Giulia Salzano, St Juana Josefa Cipitria Barriola, St Mary MacKillop, St Stanislaw Soltys Kazimierczyk
Pope canonises Mary MacKillop, Australia’s first saint
Posted on Monday, 18 October 2010 Tags: Australia, Canada, Congregation of Holy Cross, Daughters of Jesus, Miracle Man of Montreal, Montreal, Notre Dame College, Poor Clares, Pope Benedict XVI, Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, St Andre Bessette, St Camilla Battista Varano, St Giulia Salzano, St Juana Cipitria Barriola, St Mary MacKillop, St Stanislaw Soltys
Pope Benedict XVI proclaims six new saints, including a Canadian brother known as the ‘Miracle Man of Montreal’
Pope Francis, as I hoped, will complete Pope Benedict’s unfinished encyclical: it will be a striking illustration of the hermeneutic of continuity
By William Oddie