Today, we remember...
two Latin American blesseds and a saint; a Puerto Rican, a Colombian, and a Chilean respectively:
Blessed Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodriguez Santiago
Blessed Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos
Saint Terese of the Andes
As it is always profitable to learn about holy people from modern times, click on the links to learn their interesting stories.
It was my third week of a year-long stay in Chile when Santa Teresa de los Andes was canonized. It was still almost a decade before I was to become a Catholic, and I didn't quite know what to make of the national celebration the heralded the country's first saint. Everywhere one looked, the were Santa Teresa banners, Santa Teresa posters, Santa Teresa cards, Santa Teresa stamps, etc.
Looking back on the event, it was a beautiful synthesis of nationalism and religion, of the particular and the universal. Very Catholic, indeed!
two Latin American blesseds and a saint; a Puerto Rican, a Colombian, and a Chilean respectively:
Blessed Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodriguez Santiago
Blessed Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos
Saint Terese of the Andes
As it is always profitable to learn about holy people from modern times, click on the links to learn their interesting stories.
It was my third week of a year-long stay in Chile when Santa Teresa de los Andes was canonized. It was still almost a decade before I was to become a Catholic, and I didn't quite know what to make of the national celebration the heralded the country's first saint. Everywhere one looked, the were Santa Teresa banners, Santa Teresa posters, Santa Teresa cards, Santa Teresa stamps, etc.
Looking back on the event, it was a beautiful synthesis of nationalism and religion, of the particular and the universal. Very Catholic, indeed!
Redeemed by Our Savior, I work out my salvation with fear and trembling in Pohang, South Korea, where I live with my wife, daughter, and son and teach English at a science and technology university. Baptized a Methodist and raised a Missouri Synod Lutheran in Buffalo, NY, I spent six years as a guest of the Anglican Communion before being received by the Grace of God into the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church on the Feast of Saint Andrew, my patron, anno domini 2002.
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