"Like new saints, let's live God's dream joyfully" Pope Francis at the Canonisation Mass on 15th May.

Pope Francis elevated 10 men and women to Sainthood for their faith, fortitude, martyrdom, and miracles. The ten saints hail from various countries, is, five from Italy, three from France, one from the Netherlands and one from India.

The last canonization ceremony was celebrated Oct. 13, 2019 and included St. John Henry Newman.

The Congregation for Saints’ Causes has published a brief biography of each of the 10 new saints to be, with information about the miracle attributed to their intercession needed for their canonizations.

From Italy

Saint Luigi Maria Palazzolo, an Italian priest and founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Poor was born in 1827and ordained to the priesthood in 1850. Don Luigi chose to devote himself to young people at an oratory in a poor neighborhood, opened a school that offered evening classes in reading and writing to men and boys before opening a separate oratory for girls and founding the Sisters of the Poor to run it.

The miracle recognized in his sainthood cause involved an Italian Sister of the Poor who in early 2016 was told by the doctors of her imminent death and had stopped trying to reverse the damage, she recovered.

Saint Giustino Maria Russolillo, an Italian who, on the day of his ordination to the priesthood in 1913, vowed to establish a religious order and founded the Society of Divine Vocations for men and the Vacationist Sisters.
The healing in April 2016 of a young member of the Society of Divine Vocations who was in a coma had acute respiratory failure and rhabdomyolysis (muscle death) after an epileptic seizure was the miracle accepted for his canonization.

Saint Anna Maria Rubatto, founder of the order now known as the Capuchin Sisters of Mother Rubatto, was born in Carmagnola, Italy, in 1844 and died in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1904.

The miracle accepted in her cause involved the healing in March 2000 in Colonia, Uruguay, of a young man suffering from “cranio-encephalic trauma with severe subarachnoid hemorrhage, severe coma, endocranial hypertension and diffuse axonal damage,” the Congregation for Saints’ Causes said.
Saint Maria Domenica Mantovani, co-founder and first superior general of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family, Born in 1862 in Castelletto di Brenzone, Italy, dedicated her life to serving the poor and needy as well as assisting the sick and the elderly. She died in 1934.

The miracle in her case involved the healing in 2011 of a 12-year-old girl in Argentina who, during a medical procedure, suffered convulsions, cardiac arrest and respiratory failure. Touched with a relic of Blessed Mantovani and supported by the prayers of her family, the girl was extubated two days later and went on to recover, the Vatican said.

Saint Carolina Santocanale, also known as Blessed Mary of Jesus, an Italian nun born in 1852, who founded the Congregation of the Capuchin Sisters of the Immaculate of Lourdes. She died in Palermo in 1923.

The Vatican said the miracle in her cause involved a young bride suffering from two autoimmune disorders, myasthenia gravis and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and documented infertility. Yet, after prayers to Blessed Carolina, in December 2016 she discovered she was pregnant. And, six months after her first child was born healthy, she became pregnant again and gave birth to another healthy baby.
From France

Saint César de Bus, the France-born founder of the Fathers of Christian Doctrine, was a pioneer in educating the laity in the faith, using illustrations he painted himself and songs and poetry he wrote. He died in 1607.

The Vatican said the miracle approved for his canonization was the healing in 2016 of a young woman in Salerno, Italy, who suffered from “acinetobacter baumannii meningitis” with a “cerebral hemorrhage from a high-flow AVM rupture with acute hydrocephalus.”

Saint Charles de Foucauld born in Strasbourg, France, in 1858, from the faith during his adolescence, but a trip to Morocco inspired him to return to the church and, eventually, to join the Trappists. Ordained to the priesthood in 1901, he lived among the poor and finally settled in Tamanrasset, Algerian desert. In 1916, he was killed by a band of plunderers. His writings inspired the foundation, after his death, of the Little Brothers of Jesus and the Little Sisters of Jesus.

The miracle approved for his cause involved Charle, a carpenter’s apprentice working on restoring a chapel in Saumur, France, who fell over 50 feet, hitting a bench whose armrest pierced his left side and came out at the back at the base of his rib cage. According to the Little Brothers of Jesus, Charle did not pass out, got up immediately to seek help and, after surgery, was discharged from the hospital after a week. “He went back to work two months after the accident without suffering any physical or psychological ill-effects,” the order said. The accident occurred Nov. 30, 2016, the eve of the centenary of Blessed Charles’ death.

Saint Marie Rivier, a Frenchwoman who founded the Sisters of the Presentation of Mary in 1796 during the time of the French Revolution, when many Catholic convents were closed and religious activities were outlawed. She was born in 1768 and died in 1838.

The miracle recognized for her canonization, the Vatican said, occurred in 2015 in Tagbilaran, Philippines. It involved the disappearance of hydrops — a buildup of fluid in tissues and organs — in a fetus just over 12 weeks into the pregnancy. The baby girl was born healthy Sept. 6, 2015.

From Netherlands
Saint Titus Brandsma was born in Oegeklooster, Netherlands, in 1881 and was ordained in 1905.In 1935, was named chaplain to the Dutch Catholic journalists’ association. During World War II, he was arrested and sent to Dachau for treason after defending Jews and encouraging Catholic newspapers not to print Nazi propaganda. He was killed with a lethal injection in 1942 at the age of 61 and cremated at the camp.

The miracle in his cause involved Carmelite Father Michael Driscoll, former pastor of St. Jude Church in Boca Raton, Florida, who is now 80 years old. In 2004 he had been diagnosed with severe, stage 4, metastatic melanoma and began praying to Blessed Titus and putting a relic of the martyr’s clothing on his head and neck. When the medical board of the Congregation for Saints’ Causes looked at the case, the Vatican said, “of the disease, which was particularly malignant and invasive, there was no longer any trace, even after more than 15 years.”

From India
Saint Lazarus Devasahayam Pillai, knowingly left behind the comfort of his wealthy, high-caste Hindu family for almost certain persecution and death to be baptized a Catholic in 1745.

The first Indian lay person to be canonised, his faith was put to the test when he was arrested on false charges, a mere four years after his conversion. He was periodically tortured for years for refusing to submit to the Hindu rites and rituals.

On the night of Jan. 14, 1752, Devasahayam was taken from prison to a rocky hill, where he was shot three times. When he did not die, he was shot twice more, and then another three times. Though his body was abandoned by his murderers, people recoevred his mortal remains after five days, and buried him in the local church. His tomb is still in the Cathedral of St. Francis Xavier in Nagercoil, southern India.

The canonisation of the then saints will bring to 909 the saints Pope Francis has recognized officially during his pontificate; the figure includes the 813 “Martyrs of Otranto,” who were killed in the southern Italian city in 1480 and declared saints in 2013.

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