{"id":1786,"date":"2017-05-04T18:15:52","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T18:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2025-09-29T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:22:20","slug":"good-news-american-capuchin-solanus-casey-to-be-beatified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Good news – American Capuchin Solanus Casey to be beatified."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I love this guy – his life is a wonderful story. Back when I was having my chemotherapy a friend of mine gave me a third class relic. Must have helped! He died July 31st, 1957. Solanus Casey was a miracle worker in his own life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pope Francis approves miracle attributed to beloved friar\u2019s intercession, paving the way for Detroit\u2019s champion of the poor to be named \u2018blessed\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

DETROIT<\/strong> \u2014 Sixty years after his death, Venerable Fr. Solanus Casey is on his way to sainthood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pope Francis announced May 4 that Detroit\u2019s beloved Capuchin friar has met the requirements for beatification and will be named \u201cblessed\u201d \u2014 the second U.S.-born man to achieve such a designation and the first person from Michigan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the hundreds \u2014 if not thousands \u2014 of healings attributed to Fr. Solanus during and after his lifetime, Pope Francis recognized the authenticity of a miracle necessary for the friar to be elevated from \u201cvenerable\u201d to \u201cblessed\u201d after a thorough review by the Vatican\u2019s Congregation for the Causes of Saints, including panels of doctors and theologians, was completed earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe beatification of Fr. Solanus Casey is an incomparable grace for the Church in the Archdiocese of Detroit and for the whole community of Southeast Michigan,\u201d Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron said in a statement. \u201cHe is an inspiration to all us Catholics \u2013 and to all \u2013 of the power of grace to transform one\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a news release, the miracle needed to raise Fr. Solanus to \u201cblessed\u201d involved a woman with an incurable genetic skin disease. The woman was visiting friends in Detroit and stopped at Fr. Solanus\u2019 tomb to pray for others\u2019 intentions. After her prayers, she felt the strong urging to ask for the friar\u2019s intercession for herself, too, and received an instant and visible healing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The miraculous nature of her cure was verified by doctors in her home country, in Detroit and in Rome, all of whom confirmed there was no scientific explanation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a blessed coincidence \u2014 or perhaps not \u2014 Fr. Solanus himself died of a skin disease in 1957.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love this guy – his life is a wonderful story. Back when I was having my chemotherapy a friend of mine gave me a third class relic. Must have helped! He died July 31st, 1957. Solanus Casey was a miracle worker in his own life. Pope Francis approves miracle attributed to beloved friar\u2019s intercession, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13327,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/13327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}