Posts Tagged ‘Sainthood causes’

Woman lived for 60 years on the Eucharist alone

Thursday, December 3rd, 2020

Servant of God Floripes de Jesús, better known as Lola, was a Brazilian laywoman who lived on the Eucharist alone for 60 years. At the age of 16, she fell out of a tree. The accident changed her life. She was left paraplegic and “her body changed – she no longer felt hungry, thirsty or Read more

African-American sainthood causes to be promoted

Thursday, August 2nd, 2018

Work to promote African-American canonisation causes has received a boost with the opening of a resource centre at Xavier University in New Orleans. The resource centre will be constructed by the university’s Institute for Black Catholic Studies. It will include compilations and educational exhibits of the lives of African-Americans whose sainthood causes are open. When Read more