SaintCast #115, Who are the Servites?
Today on the SaintCast live (well almost) from San Diego, we learn about the 7 Florentine noblemen who started the Servite Order 775 years ago. Also, St. Dominic goes to the dogs.More on relics in the altars of listeners’ parishes, Jeopardy answers, a new St. Jeopardy quiz, and a touching account of the martyrdom of St. Paul Miki. What is an antimension? Listeners sound off on a number of topics on this new SaintCast.
- International Servite website
- Magnatune.com
- Print your SaintCast flyers for posting here
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Great podcast, Dr Paul! I work with a Servant of Mary and couldn’t wait to share your podcast with her. Here is the link to our local Servite website. http://www.osms.org/ They have a wonderful ministry with St Peregrine for those suffering with cancer and have a beautiful chapel where a local priest celebrates a Mass in honor of St Peregrine every 3rd Saturday. You can also enroll in their St Peregrine prayer program on their website. Thanks again for your wonderful podcast!
My parish is St. Philip Benizi – a Servite
Thanks, Barb. I totally blew it by not mentioning the Sisters Servants of Mary! They are a wonderful order, and before this episode I had no idea they were the Servites, too. Just visited the Chapel of St. Peregrine at Mission San Juan Capistrano, and didn’t know he was a Servite either before this episode. Will get a Podcast on him up soon- he’s got a great story!
“live from San Diego”
Dr Paul, I bet you got that line from Catholic Answers LIVE!
Damien de Veuster, Priest Who Aided Lepers In Hawaii, To Become Saint
VATICAN CITY — A 19th-century Belgian priest who ministered to leprosy patients in Hawaii, and died of the disease, will be declared a saint this year at a Vatican ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI.
The Rev. Damien de Veuster’s canonization date of Oct. 11 was set Saturday.
Born Joseph de Veuster in 1840, he took the name Damien and went to Hawaii in 1864 to join other missionaries of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. Nine years later, he began ministering to leprosy patients on the remote Kalaupapa peninsula of Molokai island, where some 8,000 people had been banished amid an epidemic in Hawaii in the 1850s.
The priest eventually contracted the disease, also known as Hansen’s disease, and died in 1889 at age 49.
“He went there (to Hawaii) knowing that he could never return,” The Rev. Alfred Bell, who spearheaded Damien’s canonization cause, told Vatican Radio. “He suffered a lot, but he stayed.”…
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/21/damien-de-veuster-priest-_n_168829.html
Father Damien de Veuster, Pray for us!