ECCLESIA IN AMERICA
The Saints and the Beatified of America accompany the men and women of today with fraternal concern in all their joys and sufferings, until the final encounter with the Lord.
With a view to encouraging the faithful to imitate them ever more closely and to seek their intercession more frequently and fruitfully, the Synod Fathers proposed..
The Saints and the Beatified of America accompany the men and women of today with fraternal concern in all their joys and sufferings, until the final encounter with the Lord.
With a view to encouraging the faithful to imitate them ever more closely and to seek their intercession more frequently and fruitfully, the Synod Fathers proposed...that there be prepared “a collection of short biographies of the Saints and the Beatified of America, which can shed light on and stimulate the response to the universal call to holiness in America.”- Ecclesia in America
Among the Saints it has produced…Like a cloud of witnesses, they stir us to take up fearlessly and fervently today's task of the new evangelization”. Their example of boundless dedication to the cause of the Gospel must not only be saved from oblivion, but must become better and more widely known among the faithful of the continent. In th
Among the Saints it has produced…Like a cloud of witnesses, they stir us to take up fearlessly and fervently today's task of the new evangelization”. Their example of boundless dedication to the cause of the Gospel must not only be saved from oblivion, but must become better and more widely known among the faithful of the continent. In this regard, I wrote in Tertio Millennio Adveniente: “The local Churches should do everything possible to ensure that the memory of those who have suffered martyrdom should be safeguarded, gathering the necessary documentation”.
-St. John Paul II
Find an American patron saint!
There are 11 canonized American saints, seven Blesseds, 24 Venerables, over 60 Servants of God and growing.
Follow the blog to read their amazing stories , get updates as these soon to be saints move through the canonization process and find links to their causes to get involved.
There are many places througho
Find an American patron saint!
There are 11 canonized American saints, seven Blesseds, 24 Venerables, over 60 Servants of God and growing.
Follow the blog to read their amazing stories , get updates as these soon to be saints move through the canonization process and find links to their causes to get involved.
There are many places throughout the United States where you can make a pilgrimage. Search the state lists to find where.