Time Line 1954

Births

Ordinations

• Cardinal Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo

Religious Professions

Consecrations

• Bishop Edmund Francis Gibbons

Deaths

• Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
• Saint Giovanni Calabria
• Venerable Antonio Amumdarain Garmendia
• Venerable Felisa Pérez de Iriarte Casado
• Venerable Vladimir Ghika

• Bishop Alfredo Verzosa y Florentin

Venerations

Beatifications

• Blessed Jean-Martin Moÿe
• Blessed Mary Assunta
• Blessed Placido Riccardi

Canonizations

• Pope Saint Pius X
• Saint Dominic Savio
• Saint Gaspare Bufalo
• Saint Joseph Pignatelli
• Saint Peter Chanel

Founded

Elevations

Publications

Other Events

• United States president Eisenhower signs an order adding the words “under God” to the Pledge of Allegience

1953

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