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Saintly Role Models for Parents: St. Therese’s Parents to be Beatified August 13th, 2008 by Patrice Fagnant-MacArthur St. Thérèse of Lisieux wrote of her parents, “God gave me a father and mother more worthy of Heaven than of earth.” Over a century later, the Catholic Church will officially confirm what St. Thérèse already knew. On July 11, 2008, it was announced that Louis and Zelie (Guerin) Martin would be beatified on Mission Sunday, October 19, 2008. They will become the first married couple to be beatified in the history of the Church. As such, they are saintly role models for married...

Maria Mercedes with her mother Santiago, Aug 1, 2008 / 10:23 am (CNA).- Maria Mercedes Correa Maldonado, a 23 year-old Chilean woman who in explicably “woke up” from cerebral palsy when she was 18, is now pregnant, in what could be the second miracle attributed to Italian seminarian Nicola D’Onofrio (1943-1964), whose cause of beatification is open in the Diocese of Rome.Maria Mercedes suffered from grave cerebral palsy but on a March afternoon on 2003, after her mother had incessantly prayed to the Italian seminarian for his intercession, she woke up in her hospital bed in Puataendo, sat up...

LONDON (CNS) -- Catholic officials have applied for permission to exhume the body of a 19th-century cardinal whose cause for sainthood is expected to soon progress to beatification. They want to transfer the remains of Cardinal John Henry Newman from a grave in a small cemetery in the suburbs of Birmingham, England, to a marble sarcophagus in a church in the city where they can be venerated by pilgrims. A July 14 statement said that the Archdiocese of Birmingham was now in direct contact with the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Justice, Sir Suma Chakrabarti, to obtain the necessary...

BEIRUT: Miraculous, perhaps. Tens of thousands of Lebanese gathered in Martyrs Square in Downtown Beirut on Sunday to witness the beatification of Yaaqoub Haddad, the late Capuchin priest who gained fame for his prolific work in founding an order of nuns, expanding the Capuchin school network and conceiving or establishing a number of religious and social institutions, some of which have gained iconic status in Lebanon. Haddad, who died more than 50 years ago, took a step toward sainthood in the first beatification ever to take place outside the Vatican - and people flocked to the capital to observe the...

Krakow, May. 21, 2008 (CWNews.com) - A Polish newspaper has predicted that the beatification of Pope John Paul II will take place next year. Zycie Warszawy speculates that the late Pontiff could be beatified on April 2, the anniversary of his death, or on October 16, 2009, the anniversary of his election to the papacy. Earlier this month another Polish newspaer, Dziennik, had said that the beatification could take place on October 16 of this year, the 30th anniversary of John Paul's election. That prediction appeared unrealistic, since the cause for beatification of the late Pontiff still has several hurdles...

Cardinal John Henry Newman Vatican City, Apr 23, 2008 / 03:12 am (CNA).- The Vatican has approved the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman, the English convert and theologian who has had immense influence upon English-speaking Catholicism, the Birmingham Mail reports.John Henry Newman was born in 1801.  As an Anglican priest, he led the Oxford Movement that sought to return the Church of England to its Catholic roots.  His conversion to Catholicism in 1845 rocked Victorian England.  After becoming an Oratorian priest, he was involved in the establishment of the Birmingham Oratory.  He died in 1890 and is buried...

VATICAN CITY, FEB. 13, 2008 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI announced he will dispense with the five-year waiting period established by Canon Law to open the cause of beatification of Sister Lucia, one of the three Fatima visionaries. The news was announced today in the cathedral of Coimbra, Portugal, by Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, on the third anniversary of the Carmelite's death.The Holy Father dispensed with the established waiting period once before for the cause of Pope John Paul II. Benedict XVI made the announcement on May 13, the feast of Our Lady of Fatima,...

On April 28, 2006, His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI approved the promulgation of the miracle attributed to the intercession of Father Basil Anthony Moreau (1799-1873), founder of the men and women’s congregations of Holy Cross. This promulgation prepares the way for the beatification that will take place in the diocese of Le Mans, France, on September 15, 2007. Father Basil Moreau’s cause for beatification was first introduced on the diocesan level in Le Mans, France, in 1946. However, it was not until 1955 that the cause was presented for consideration by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints in Rome....

Italian Priest Was Killed in Congo PALERMO, Sicily, APRIL 27, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Blessed Francesco Spoto knew the value of life, and how to give it up for others, according to the current superior general of his congregation. Palermo native Father Spoto, the superior general of the Congregation of Missionary Servants of the Poor, was 40 years old when he was murdered by a group of Simba rebels in Congo in 1964. He was beatified last Saturday in his hometown. Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, retired archbishop of Palermo, was delegated by Benedict XVI to preside at the Mass. Archbishop Paolo Romeo...

The Rome diocese has wrapped up its examination of Pope John Paul II's virtues and life, an important step in the Catholic Church's process that could lead to sainthood for the late pontiff.Rome Cardinal Camillo Ruini said Saturday he had been informed that completion of work by the diocese on the cause for beatification and sainthood will be marked with a ceremony in St. John's Lateran Basilica on April 2 in the capital. The date is the second anniversary of John Paul's death.All pontiffs serve as bishop of Rome, and so the diocese examined "the life, virtues and reputation for...

ROME (CNS) -- The Rome diocesan office charged with promoting the sainthood cause of Pope John Paul II has exceeded its postage budget because of increased requests for prayer cards and relics of the late pope. "We were getting about 50 requests a day, but overnight it grew to between 500 and 1,000 requests," a spokeswoman for the office said March 2. "We could not have foreseen this demand," she said. "It's an avalanche." Franciscan Brother Chris Gaffrey, who assists the office with English translations, told Catholic News Service that the vast majority of requests in late February and early...

Nun killed for sheltering Jews is beatified in Hungary By Jonathan Luxmoore 9/18/2006 Catholic News Service OXFORD, England (CNS) – A nun executed for sheltering Jews during World War II was remembered for her feminine example of holiness during her beatification in Hungary. Advertisement Cardinal Peter Erdo of Esztergom-Budapest, Hungary, said the martyrdom of Sister Sara Salkahazi of the Sisters of Social Service is "close to us, and her example is within our reach. She is someone of modest circumstances, who lived through the storms of 20th-century history and gave us an example of the feminine way to holiness." Sister...

Plan to beatify martyrs of Spanish civil war attackedThe Pope has provoked controversy with plans to beatify 168 Catholic martyrs of the Spanish civil war. Historians believe that about 10,000 priests, brothers, nuns and laity were killed during the civil war from 1936-39, as Leftists fighting to defend Spain's secular republic tried to wipe out what they saw as Catholic resistance. Beatification, a step towards sainthood, will help preserve the memory of those victims. But as Spain wrestles with conflicting versions of its history in the run up to the 70th anniversary of the start of the civil war next...

Vatican, Apr. 27 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) has called for tighter limits on the number of candidates for beatification, in a message to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. In a long letter to Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope Benedict said that a cause should not be opened unless there is "a proven reputation for holiness." The Pope's letter was sent on April 24, as the Congregation opened its plenary meeting; the text was released by the Vatican on April 27. The Holy Father said...

Vatican City, March 28 - Non-believers and people of other religions are volunteering their testimony to Catholic officials working for the beatification of the late John Paul II .Procedures leading to the Polish pontiff's beatification began last summer and since then messages from people attesting to his saintliness have arrived from around the globe, Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said ."They come from people who say they are agnostics, non-believers, even Muslims, Buddhists or Hindus. They say that they would like their testimony to be officially recognised by the Church," he said .Monsignor Slawomir Oder, the Polish priest overseeing John...

POPE Benedict XVI has authorised the proclamation of 19 new saints and blesseds, the first such decree of his papacy which began in late April. The list named two future saints, a Polish priest from the 15th century and an Italian nun from the 16th century. The number of blesseds included nine Italians, three Germans, three Spaniards, a Dutchman and an Indian. The Indian priest, Agostino Thevarparampil, who died in 1973, was the most recent person to be named a blessed. Thirteen others were also from the 20th century. The process of recognising the saints and blesseds, either for their...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Once again returning to a streamlined practice in place before the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI chose a private audience for the signing of a variety of decrees related to sainthood causes. Pope Benedict met Dec. 19 with Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, and authorized the publication of decrees related to 19 causes. Pope John Paul also authorized publication of decrees during meetings with the prefect, but the meetings were anything but private. The postulators of the individual causes were invited, as were local bishops or...

John Paul's sainthood opposed John Hooper in Rome Thursday December 8, 2005 The Guardian A group of prominent Roman Catholic theologians and writers has revealed it is trying to stop the late pope John Paul II being declared a saint. In a document being circulated in Rome, they say the Vatican should take account of decisions reached by the Polish pontiff "that ought to be an obstacle to [his] beatification". Following emotional scenes at the late pope's funeral, his successor, Pope Benedict XVI, set him on a fast track to beatification - the first step towards sainthood - last June....

Thousands of pilgrims packed St Peter's basilica at the Vatican for the beatification of French monk Charles de Foucauld who lived among Muslims in colonial Algeria, and two Italian nuns. In line with the trend set for his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI delegated the beatification ceremony to Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. The other two people beatified were Maria Pia Mastena, who died in 1916 -- the same year de Foucauld was killed by bandits in Algeria -- and Maria Crocifissa Curcio, who died in 1957. Both nuns founded religious orders. De...

ROME Nov 6, 2005 — An Italian mother who raised 11 children was moving ahead on the road to possible sainthood Sunday amid a Vatican campaign in favor of large families. Eurosia Fabris, known as "Mamma Rosa," raised two children whose mother died while they were little, then married their father and with him had nine children. The virtues of Fabris, who died in 1932, were being honored Sunday in a beatification ceremony in Vicenza, near her native farming village in northern Italy. Beatification is the last formal step before possible sainthood. On Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI praised large families and called...

Folks, according to Catholic World News: (CWNews.com) - Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, the prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, will preside at beatification ceremonies for Charles de Foucauld and two Italian nuns-- Maria Pia Mastena, and Maria Crocifissa Curcio-- on November 13.Charles de Foucauld (1858- 1916) was a French soldier who converted to Catholicism, became a monk, and lived as a hermit in southern Algeria, where he was a pioneer of dialogue with Muslims. His beatification had originally been set for May 15, but was postponed-- along with several other similar ceremonies-- when Pope John Paul II...

Rome, Oct. 20 (CWNews.com) - Reports of a miracle attributed to the intercession of Cardinal John Henry Newman have given a new impetus to the cause for beatification of the 19th-century British convert. "At last we have a miracle cure," said Father Paul Chavasse, the provost of the Birmingham Oratory, an institution founded by Cardinal Newman in 1848. He was referring to reports that an American deacon was cured of severe chronic spinal problems through Cardinal Newman's intercession. Church officials would not reveal the identity of the man who benefited from the reported miracle, but said that the Boston archdiocese...

Sometime in the next few days, Andrea Ambrosi, a Vatican lawyer specializing in the arcane ways of canonization, will leave New Orleans for Rome with a precious cargo: 2,918 pages of memories, testimonies and historical and theological arguments in support of sainthood for his new client, Henriette Delille, the 19th century woman of color who spent a lifetime ministering to slaves in antebellum New Orleans. The thick files are the product of 16 years of prayers, promotion and scholarly research by modern admirers of Delille in and out of the Sisters of the Holy Family, the religious order she founded....

Pope Benedict XVI has temporarily blocked the beatification of a French priest and appointed a commission to investigate the priest's anti-Semitic writings, drawing praise from Jewish leaders who called it a sign of the new pope's sensitivity to other religions.Last December, Pope John Paul II announced plans to beatify Leon Dehon on April 24. The ceremony would have been a major step toward sainthood for Dehon, who lived from 1843 to 1925 and founded the Priests of the Sacred Heart, a religious order that today has nearly 2,400 members around the world.In February, however, a French historian drew attention to...

At the request of the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Lord D. Camillo Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church Ruini, Vicar General of His Holiness for the Diocese of Rome, the Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, considering the special circumstances set forth, in an audience granted to the same Cardinal Vicar on 28 April in this year 2005, has dispensed with the five-year waiting period after death for the Servant of God, John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), Supreme Pontiff, so that the Cause for the Beatification and Canonization of the same Servant of God may begin immediately. Anything to the contrary...

The Pope starts Wojtyla beatification The Pope has arranged the immediate beginning of the cause of beatification of Pope Wojtyla, dispensing from the wait of the five years from the dead women previewed from the code. Benedict XVI has announced personally the roman clergy, reading, in Latin, a communication in such sense of cardinal Josè Saraiva Martins, prefetto of the Congregation for the causes of knows to you. The communication has been received a longest applause of present clergymen, raised in feet, therefore like the Pope and Ruini cardinal.

Blessed Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodríguez Santiago (1918-1963)Folks, the passing of Pope John Paul the Great has created a veritable memorabilia boom in stores. Commemorative issues of magazines, books, pictures, and DVDs abound. Riding that wave, last night I purchased a National Geographic documentary entitled Inside the Vatican. They featured a beatification ceremony which happened to be the one in which Puerto Rico's first blessed, Carlos "Charlie" (or "Chali" as he was called in Puerto Rico) Rodríguez was beatified by Pope John Paul the Great. It was a blessed coincidence. You've probably noticed Bl. Charlie's picture the margin space to the...

VATICAN CITY - The private secretary of the late Pope John Paul II saw the pontiff perform what could be claimed as a miracle, one of the key stages to becoming a saint, Italy’s La Stampa newspaper reported Sunday.It quoted Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz as relating how an American who was seriously ill received communion from the pope, and was cured.The incident happened in 1998, but Dziwisz, who was John Paul II’s closest confidant for 40 years, spoke of the incident three years ago to reporters, who revealed it Sunday.According to the report, Dziwisz told how an acquaintance had asked him...

Mother Teresa “Beatified" with Idolatrous Rites By Cornelia R. Ferreira It was a triumphant day for paganism. Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy had reached the zenith of his career of Hinduizing the Catholic Church, whilst his opponent, the late Indian Resistance leader Victor Kulanday, was resoundingly defeated. It was October 19th, 2003, and in front of an audience of millions (courtesy of television), Mother Teresa of Calcutta was allegedly beatified in a Hinduized papal Mass in St. Peter’s Square. The seeds of this false worship were sown back in 1969 by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India and the chairman of its...

VATICAN CITY -- Pope John Paul II on Monday approved the beatification of Cardinal Clement August von Galen, a German prelate who fought the Nazis so fiercely that he was known as "the lion of Munster." Von Galen was one of 22 candidates for sainthood whose causes received approval from John Paul, who already has proclaimed a record 1,345 blesseds and 483 saints in the 26 years of his pontificate. Beatification, or being declared blessed and worthy of veneration, is one step below sainthood.

It was very encouraging news to hear of plans for the beatification of Pope Pius IX, the Pontiff who declared the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and papal infallibility, the Pope of the dogmatic Council Vatican I, which reaffirmed the teachings and traditions of the Magisterium of the Holy Catholic Church. The accompanying news of the beatification of Pope John XXIII, the Pope of the pastoral Council Vatican II, which worked a real revolution in the largest religious body in the world, rightfully raises concern and questions in the minds of a number of good Catholics. Let’s put aside the...

Recently Pope John Paul beatified five people. One of them was Anna Katharina Emmerick, a German nun whose meditations partly inspired Mel Gibson's movie The Passion. Certain Jewish leaders condemned the beatification, alleging that it affirms anti-Semitism and damages the relationship between the Jewish and Roman Catholic faiths. The Anti-Defamation League in the United States said of Emmerick that "hatred and anti-Semitism were fermented in her name." Hardly. Born in 1774, Anna Katharina was a simple woman from a poor family who, though disabled, had extraordinary spiritual gifts and helped many people. It may well be that some of her...

John Paul II Makes a Rosary Appeal 10/3/2004 ATICAN CITY, OCT. 4, 2004 (Zenit) - John Paul II capped a beatification Mass by inviting Christians to recite the rosary. The Pope made his appeal today in St. Peter's Square at the end of the Mass in which he proclaimed five new blessed. "On this first Sunday of October, month dedicated in a special way to the Virgin of the Rosary, I invite you to recite this beautiful prayer, imitating also in this the new blessed," the Holy Father said. John Paul II referred explicitly to Mother Ludovica De Angelis, one...

Pope John Paul II on Sunday put the last Austro-Hungarian emperor, Charles I, on the road to sainthood in a solemn beatification ceremony in St. Peter's Square, prompting angry reactions in Austria and splitting the Roman Catholic community there.

VATICAN CITY (Oct. 3) - Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer to sainthood, including Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose graphic visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire the blockbuster movie "The Passion of the Christ." Pope John Paul II kneels during a beatification ceremony in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Cheers went up in St. Peter's Square from a crowd of about 30,000 people when the pontiff finished reading the Latin words with which he beatified the five candidates, and banners with images of the five faithful were unfurled on the facade...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Never one to shrink from criticism, Pope John Paul is again putting controversial figures on the road to sainthood, including Austria's last emperor and a mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson's film on Christ's passion. With Sunday's ceremony in St Peter's Square, the ailing 84-year-old Roman Catholic leader will have beatified some 1,340 people, more than all his predecessors combined. The Pope will confer beatification -- the last step before Roman Catholic sainthood -- on five people on Sunday. The two most controversial could not have been more different. One was born in a wooden farmhouse...

Karl I Beatification Causes Uproar By WILLIAM J. KOLE, Associated Press Writer VIENNA, Austria - Some think he's already a saint for seeking a peaceful end to World War I. Others think he's a scoundrel for commanding troops who used poison gas and for mounting two bloody comeback attempts. On Sunday, Pope John Paul II is to beatify Karl I, but the Vatican's decision to put Austria's last reigning emperor on the road to sainthood has triggered a spirited political and religious debate at home. Austria's government has come under fire for its plans to send a high-profile delegation to...

Code: ZE04092005 Date: 2004-09-21 Beatification Nears for Charles I and Anna Emmerick Oct. 3 Event Scheduled VATICAN CITY, SEPT. 20, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II will soon beatify five people, including Emperor Charles I of Austria and German mystic Anna Katharina Emmerick, whose writings influenced Mel Gibson in the production of "The Passion of the Christ." The Holy See today published the list of the Servants of God to be beatified Oct. 3, when it announced the Pope's upcoming key liturgical celebrations. Charles I of Habsburg (1887-1922) was proclaimed emperor of Austria in 1916. In March 1919 he was...

The Wartime Policeman Who Saved Thousands of Jews Details Revealed About the Life of Giovanni Palatucci, Raoul Wallenberg BUENOS AIRES, JUNE 14, 2004 (Zenit.org).- An Italian policeman who gave his life to save some 5,000 Jews during World War II also helped to spare his fiancée. Giovanni Palatucci's cause of beatification is already under way. Earlier this month, Baruch Tenembaum, founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Foundation, revealed details of Palatucci's life, at a conference on "Saviors of the Holocaust." Tenembaum gave new information on the person of the former police officer of the city of Rijeka (today in Croatia), but...

PARIS (Reuters) - The 19th century German nun whose blood-soaked visions of Jesus's death inspired Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of The Christ" will soon be put on the path to sainthood, Catholic Church officials have said. Anne Catherine Emmerich, a sickly mystic who lived from 1774 to 1824, has already reached near cult status among traditionalist Roman Catholics for her book that gave Gibson the grisly details the Gospels did not provide. The Vatican says Pope John Paul II will beatify Emmerich for her virtuous life, not her best-selling book, but the Oct. 3 ceremony will further publicize her...

Vatican set to beatify emperor The Pope recognised Charles I's "heroic virtues" last year Pope John Paul II is to beatify the last emperor of the Austro-Hungarian empire, Charles I, after recognising a miracle attributed to him. The Vatican gave no details, but the miracle was said to be related to the case of a Brazilian nun who was cured of a deadly disease. Beatification is the penultimate step before sainthood. For actual sainthood, proof of another miracle is required. Charles I sat on the throne of the now defunct empire between 1916 and 1918. No date has been set...

<p>VATICAN CITY - More than a quarter-million people - rich and poor, royal and regular - flooded St. Peter's Square today for the beatification of Mother Teresa, honoring the nun who built shelters, orphanages and clinics around the world to care for those forsaken by everyone else.</p>

Oct. 19, 2003. 10:05 AM 300,000 gather for Mother Teresa's beatificationAlbanian nun founded order that cares for world's most destitute NICOLE WINFIELDASSOCIATED PRESS VATICAN CITY - More than a quarter-million people — rich and poor, royal and regular — flooded St. Peter's Square today for the beatification of Mother Teresa, honouring the nun who built shelters, orphanages and clinics around the world to care for those no one else would. Pope John Paul presided over the open-air mass, but for the first time in a major Vatican ceremony, was unable to utter a word of his homily, leaving other prelates...

(English-language translation) San Juan Archbishop Roberto González Nieves will announce today the opening of the process to beatify Rafael Cordero, a teacher who history has distinguished as "Puerto Rico's lay saint". EL VOCERO learned that Church authorities began an investigation into his life close to one year ago. Cordero, who has been recognized in history for his contributions to the education of Puerto Ricans in the 19th century, was a person who profoundly lived his Christian faith. He was a black freeman who was born into a Christian family in 1790. His parents educated him [themselves], since he lived in...

<p>NEW YORK, June 6 (UPI) -- Pope John Paul II emphasized a woman's role in the family during the beatification ceremony of the first Croatian woman Friday.</p> <p>The pontiff said, "In a special way, God has entrusted children to your care, and thus you are called to become an important support in the life of every person, especially within the context of the family."</p>

APOSTOLIC VOYAGE TO POLANDHoly Mass and Beatifications:Zygmunt Szczesny FelinskiJan BalickiJan BeyzymSancja SzymkowiakHOMILY OF THE HOLY FATHER Blonie, Kraków, 18 August 2002 "This is my commandment,that you love one another as I have loved you" (Jn 15:2).Dear Brothers and Sisters!1. The words of Jesus which we just heard are closely related to the theme of today’s liturgical assembly in Blonie in Kraków: "God, rich in mercy". This phrase in a way captures the entire truth about the love of God which has redeemed humanity. "God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when...

Pope John Paul warned the world on Sunday at the crowning event of his pilgrimage to his Polish homeland that the new millennium is threatened by an onslaught of man-made evil.PREACHING TO AN estimated 2.7 million people packed in and around Krakow’s Blonia meadow, the largest crowd ever assembled to hear him in Poland, the frail Pope said a lack of respect for life was leading the world to destruction.        “Man lives in fear of the future, of emptiness, of suffering and annihilation,” said the Pope, 82, who during his four-day trip has offered a message...

MEXICO CITY (AP) _ With an embroidered Indian stole draped over his shoulders, a seemingly invigorated Pope John Paul II beatified two Mexican Indian martyrs on Thursday, proclaiming them examples of ``how one can reach God without renouncing one's own culture.'' The exuberant ceremony heavy on Indian languages, music and dance wound up a grueling 11-day pilgrimage to the Americas aimed at reinforcing the church's appeal to Indians to counter Protestant gains. As he ended his fifth trip to Mexico, the pope thanked the nation for its passionate welcome that saw millions pour into the streets to see him...

BODY OF CLOISTERED U.S. NUN WHO DIED IN 1939 FOUND 'INTACT' WITH GREEN PALM The spokesman for a monastery in Pennsylvania has confirmed that the body of a nun who died 63 years ago -- in 1939 -- appears to be "intact" and holding a palm that remains green. The discovery was made last August during renovation of a mausoleum in Coopersburg, about seven miles southeast of Allentown, where the nun, Mother Therese of Jesus, founded the Carmelite Monastery of St. Therese of the Child Jesus and St. Mary Magdalen de Pazzi. While there are a number of instances in...