MASSACHUSETTS & MICHIGAN

Bl. Solanus Casey's cause was started by the Province of St. Joseph of the Capuchin Order in Michigan. You can visit the Solanus Casey Center to learn more about his life and visit his tomb. The website for his cause is here. He was named Blessed in 2017.

More to come on the first bishop of Marquette, MI. He died in 1868.

Thomas Foley was born  in 1913 and baptized at Sacred Heart in Springfield, MA. He also attended school there and Cathedral High School. There is a memorial to him at Sacred Heart in the back of the church.  He was the worldwide head of the Passionist Order. He died in 1974. The cause for his canonization is with the Diocese of Rome. 

Cofounder of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers.  Born in Cambridge, MA in 1867. He began school at Boston College, transferred to Harvard and finished at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, MA. He was ordained May 20, 1892 a the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston. He died at Maryknoll in 1936. Read more here.

The Archdiocese of Boston opened the cause for this priest of Opus Dei who helped establish Opus Dei in the United States. Read more here.