Blessed Michelina of Pesaro

Apr 172010
 

Also known as

  • Michelina Metelli

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Born to the Italian nobility. Married to Duke Malatesta at age 12. Widowed at age 20. Her only child died, and she decided to take orders. Her family so strongly opposed this that they locked her up and declared her insane. When set free, she gave away her wealth and became a Franciscan tertiary.

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Died

  • 1356 of natural causes

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MLA Citation

  • “Blessed Michelina of Pesaro”. Saints.SQPN.com. 17 April 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-michelina-of-pesaro/>

Saint Michael Kozaki

Apr 122010
 

Also known as

  • Michael Cozaki
  • Michael Kasaki

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Married lay man. Father of Saint Thomas Kozaki. Bow maker and carpenter. Already a Christian with the Franciscans started their missionary work in his area, he joined as a Secular Franciscan, and worked with them as a catechist, and as a nurse in their hospital. Helped to build convents and churches in Kyoto and Osaka. One of the Martyrs of Nagasaki.

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Beatified

Canonized

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Michael Kozaki”. Saints.SQPN.com. x April 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-michael-kozaki/>

Blessed John Forest

Apr 042010
 

[Blessed John Forest]
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Friar Minor of the Regular Observance at Greenwich, England while in his late teens. Studied theology at the Franciscan College at Oxford, England; he was known thereafter as “Doctor”, though records of his degree have not survived. Priest and royal chaplain. Provincial of the Franciscans by 1525 when he threatened excommunication to those brothers who opposed Cardinal Thomas Wosley’s legatine powers. Confessor to Queen Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII.

Father John thought he had convinced King Henry in 1529 not to suppress his Order in response to their opposition to his divorce, but when Henry did not get his way, he suppressed the Order and arrested John. Records show him preaching in November 1532 against the state pulling down churches, and of the authorities keeping a close watch on him. Arrested in 1534, he established a correspondence from Newgate prison to Queen Catherine and Blessed Thomas Abel. Wrote a treatise against King Henry‘s usurpation of power over things spiritual.

Sentenced to death on 8 April 1538 for refusing the oath acknowledging Henry‘s primacy in spiritual matters. Martyr.

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Died

Beatified

Canonized

  • if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed John, contact
       Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
       39 Eccleston Square
       London SW1V 1BX, UNITED KINGDOM

Additional Information

MLA Citation

  • “Blessed John Forest”. Saints.SQPN.com. 4 April 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-john-forest/>

Venerable Amalia Streitel

Mar 282010
 

[Venerable Amalia Streitel]
Also known as

  • Frances Streitel
  • Maria Franziska of the Cross

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One of four children raised in a pious family. Educated to be a teacher of music and language, but around age 17 she began to feel drawn to religious life. Her family opposed the vocation, but finally relented when Amalia was about 21, and she joined the Franciscan Sisters at the convent of Maria Stern in Augsburg, Germany. Teacher. Transferred to the Himmelspforten Carmelite monastery in Wuerzburg, Germany in 1882. She was strongly drawn to the solitary contemplative life, but came to understand that her vocation was to bring that spirituality into the world. In 1883 she moved to Rome, Italy to help Father Francis Jordan and the Catholic Teaching Society he had recently founded. However, the two had different charisms, and in 1885 she, Monsignor George Jacquemin, and 35 women founded the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother; the papal approval of its constitution was issued on the day of her death. The Sisters continue their good works today in Europe, the United States, South America, and Africa.

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Died

Venerated

Beatified

  • if you have information relevant to the beatification of Venerable Amalia, contact
       Sr. Therese Marie Müller, SSM
       Suore della SS. Madre Addolorata
       Via Paolo III, 9
       00165 Roma, ITALY

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MLA Citation

  • “Venerable Amalia Streitel”. Saints.SQPN.com. 28 March 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/venerable-amalia-streitel/>

Blessed Christopher Macassoli of Vigevano

Mar 042010
 

Also known as

  • Kristoffer Macassoli av Vigevano
  • Cristoforo Macassoli

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Born to the Italian nobility. Entered the Franciscans at age 20. Priest. Founded the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie at Vigevano, Italy c.1475, which became a point of pilgrimage for those seeking spiritual advice. Worked with Blessed Pacificus Ramoth of Carano.

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Beatified

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MLA Citation

  • “Blessed Christopher Macassoli of Vigevano”. Saints.SQPN.com. 5 March 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-christopher-macassoli-of-vigevano/>

Blessed Antonia of Florence

Feb 242010
 

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Married and a mother of one. Widowed twice. Franciscan tertiary. Poor Clare nun. Spiritual student of Saint John Capitran. Superioress at Aquila, Italy. Sick the last 15 years of her life.

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Beatified

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MLA Citation

  • “Blessed Antonia of Florence”. Saints.SQPN.com. 24 February 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-antonia-of-florence/>

Blessed Maria Caridad Brader

Feb 232010
 

[Blessed Maria Caridad Brader]
Also known as

  • Caritas Brader
  • Karolina Brader Zahner
  • Maria Josefa Carolina Brader
  • Mary Charity of the Love of the Holy Spirit
  • Mary Josephine Caroline
  • María Caridad of the Holy Spirit
  • María Charitas of the Holy Spirit
  • Mother Caritas

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The only child of Joseph Sebastian Brader and Maria Anna Carolina Zahner. Raised in a pious family, she was known as a highly intelligent child, and received the best education her parents could provide. There were high expectations for the girl’s future, but instead of continued study she felt a call to the religious life. Mary Josephine joined the Franciscan convent at Maria Hilf, Alstatten 1 October 1880, taking the name Mary Charity of the Love of the Holy Spirit, and making her final vows on 22 August 1882.

She was initially assigned as a teacher. When it became possible for cloistered nuns to work as missionaries, Sister Caritas volunteered to be one of the first six sisters to work in Chone, Ecuador in 1888. She worked for five years as a teacher and children‘s catechist. In 1893 she was transferred to Tùquerres, Colombia where conditions were rough but where she taught the faith to the poor and outcast.

To prepare additional missionaries she founded the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Mary Immaculate in Tuquerres, Colombia on 31 March 1893. Initially composes of young Swiss girls with a call to missionary work, they were soon joined by Colombian and other local women. Caritas served as Superior General for the Congregation from 1893 to 1919, and again from 1928 to 1940. The Sisters emphasized good education for themselves and their charges, and deep prayer lives for everyone. They received papal approval in 1933, and today work in Central and South America, Mexico, Switzerland, Mali, Romania and the United States.

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Died

Venerated

Beatified

Canonized

  • if you have information relevant to the canonization of Blessed Marie contact
       Hermanas Franciscanas de Maria Inmaculada
       Carrera 79, N. 40A-20
       Barrio Modelia, Aptdo. 98892
       Bogotá, COLOMBIA

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Readings

It is His will - Blessed Caritas

The better educated, the greater the skills the educator possesses, the more she will be able to do for our holy religion and the glory of God, especially when virtue is the vanguard of her knowledge. The more intense and visible her external activity, the deeper and more fervent her interior life must be. - Blessed Caritas

See God‘s will in everything, and to do His will with joy, out of love of Him. - Blessed Caritas

MLA Citation

  • “Blessed Maria Caridad Brader”. Saints.SQPN.com. 23 February 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-maria-caridad-brader/>

Blessed Andrew of Segni

Feb 142010
 

Also known as

  • Andrew of Conti
  • Andrew of Anagni

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Member of the royal family of Anagni, Italy. Nephew of Pope Alexander IV. Franciscan lay-brother. Hermit in the Apennines mountains in Italy. Known as a mystic, he was routinely visited and attacked by demons his whole life. Pope Boniface VIII wished to make him a cardinal, but Andrew declined, citing his inadequacy and his love of solitude.

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MLA Citation

  • “Blessed Andrew of Segni”. Saints.SQPN.com. 14 February 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/blessed-andrew-of-segni/>

Saint Jacoba

Feb 072010
 

Also known as

  • Jacqueline

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Born to the Italian nobility. Mother of two sons, grandmother of several children, all of whom she outlived. Widow. Franciscan tertiary. Friend of Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Clare of Assisi. Legend says that Francis gave her a lamb that followed her back and forth to church, and would wake her in the morning in time for services.

Died

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MLA Citation

  • “Saint Jacoba”. Saints.SQPN.com. 7 February 2010. Web. {today’s date}. <http://saints.sqpn.com/saint-jacoba/>
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