Pope Francis proclaims married couple saints in historic ceremony

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Pope Francis proclaims married couple saints in historic ceremony



ROME: -- Four new Catholic saints were proclaimed by Pope Francis on Sunday at a mass for some 65,000 people in St Peter’s Square.

Those canonised included the parents of St. Therese of Lisieux, the 19th century French nun who is one of the Church’s most venerated figures.

Their “outstanding humility and charity” was an example for all, Francis said.

“The holy spouses Louis Martin and Marie-Azelie Guerin practiced Christian service in the family, creating, day by day, an environment of faith and love,” he told worshippers.

The couple had nine children, four of whom died in childbirth. The five surviving girls all became nuns, and one was St. Therese of Lisieux, who died of tuberculosis in 1897 at the age of 24.

Popularly known as ‘The Little Flower,’ the nun of the Carmelite order achieved a worldwide following with the publication after her death of ‘The Story of a Soul,’ a collection of her thoughts on faith and simplicity.

Her writings influenced people as disparate as popes and Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. She was made a saint in 1925 and in 1944 Pope Pius XII proclaimed her the co-patroness of France along with Joan of Arc.

Present at the ceremony were the teenage 13-year-old Italian boy and the Spanish girl who the Church believes miraculously recovered from incurable illnesses after praying to the Martins.

The Pope’s historic intervention – marking the first time a married couple have been declared saints in the same ceremony – was held to coincide with a world gathering of bishops discussing ways to bolster family life.

He also canonised Vincenzo Grossi, a priest who died in 1917 and spent most of his life helping the poor in northern Italy and María Isabel Salvat Romero, a 20th century Spanish nun.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-10-19

[Seastallion]

" Church believes miraculously recovered from incurable illnesses after praying to the Martins."

Readers, don't do what I did and read that as "Martians", or you're liable to have a mental convulsion also..

[OMGImInPattaya]

Maybe better not to be canonized...

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Statue-of-Saint-Junipero-Serra-Decapitated-in-Monterey-333643811.html

LMAO!

[soalbundy]

''The five surviving girls all became nuns'' A loss of genetic material, their parents imparted them with Christian values, the value of family life, not so much. What was wrong in their relationship that caused the girls to flee to the church.

[klauskunkel]

Four new Catholic saints were proclaimed by Pope Francis

"it's always nice to get a promotion...", Santa Klaus

Edited October 19, 2015 by klauskunkel

[jollyhangmon]

... well that fits perfectly.
After some pseudo-buddhistic mambojumbo now the catholic hocuspocus.
To each its own i guess ...

[Baerboxer]

And the corrupt money making machine known as the Catholic Church, or Church of Rome where priests, forbidden to marry, seem to turn to kiddy fiddling to relieve their sexual desires, and nuns, supposedly kind and charitable, ran some of most vile and cruel homes for the young imaginable, continues with it's tradition of fairy stories.

Why so many billions of people still believe in the superstitious fairy stories and offers of eternal salvation peddled by this thoroughly corrupt and hypocritical organization is mind boggling.

What would be a miracle is if they came clean and told the truth about all they knew and what they have done over the centuries to lie, cheat, misrepresent, and hide information to promote their own organization in preference to the actual truth.

No wonder the Mafia are Catholic.

[willyumiii]

When over 50% of marriages end in divorce, most people who stay married must be saints!

( the other 50% end in death...you lose either way!)

[chickenslegs]

" Church believes miraculously recovered from incurable illnesses after praying to the Martins."

Readers, don't do what I did and read that as "Martians", or you're liable to have a mental convulsion also..

It would be equally believable though.