(OSV News) — The following is the full text of the homily for the Oct. 31 beatification celebration of the Georgia Martyrs given by Cardinal Frank Leo, the archbishop of Toronto …
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Abundant gratitude was expressed for the Oct. 31 beatification of five Franciscans known as the Georgia Martyrs in a Mass of thanksgiving at the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the …
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Pilgrims poured in from all over Georgia, the United States and even around the world to honor five 16th-century Franciscan martyrs were given the title “blessed” on Oct. 31, the …
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Bishops, Franciscans and other pilgrims traveled to St. Catherines Island, the site where some of the five Georgia Martyrs had a mission and were buried.
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Pilgrims traveling to the Savannah Convention Center for the beatification of the Georgia martyrs talked about how these friars’ example touched their lives.
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(OSV News) — What would you give your life for? This is the question and challenge that Bishop Stephen D. Parkes of the Diocese of Savannah has been putting before …
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On Oct. 31, the Georgia Martyrs — five 16th-century Spanish Franciscan missionaries who served the indigenous Guale people of what is now Georgia — will be beatified.
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Interest surges in U.S. beatification of Georgia Martyrs who died defending marriage
by Katie Yoderby Katie Yoder(OSV News) — The venue for the upcoming beatification of the Georgia Martyrs is expanding to accommodate thousands more people after a surge in interest from Catholics around the U.S. and …
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DARIEN, Ga. (OSV News) — In late October, a little more than a month after Archbishop Fulton Sheen is to become “blessed,” the sixth beatification on American soil will take place …
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Flannery O’Connor: Southern writer made Catholic vision ‘apparent by shock’
by Russell Shawby Russell Shaw“All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it,” Flannery O’Connor once said.
