Time Line 1917

Births

• Blessed Bruna Pellesi
• Venerable Angelo Reguilón Lobato
• Venerable Francisco Pérez y Pérez
• Venerable Nicomedes Andrés Vecilla

Ordinations

Religious Professions

Consecrations

• Blessed Yosafat Kotsylovskyi
• Pope Venerable Pius XII

Deaths

• Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini
• Saint Mutien Marie Wiaux
• Venerable Francesca Farolfi
• Venerable José Ramón Ibarra y González

Venerations

• Saint Joseph Pignatelli

Beatifications

• Blessed Anne of Saint Bartholomew
• Saint Joseph Benedict Cottolengo

Canonizations

Founded

Elevations

Published

Other Events

• Bethlehem assumed into the British Empire
• United States declares war on Germany, and enters World War I
• vision of the Virgin Mary appears to three children at Fatima, Portugal; later known as Our Lady of Fatima
• papal approval of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence

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