We have numerous Saints associated with Louisiana but if I am correct we don't have an official one that is actually a 100 percent WHO DAT born Louisiana person.
That might be changing. Whispers has a nice article on the causes of folks that of course willbe significant to American black and also Creole Catholics Catholics. That is the nation's first Black priest, Fr Augustus Tolton and now coming out Louisiana Mother Henriette Delille.
As to our possible future New Orleans born Saint he says:
...meanwhile, down in Who Dat Country, this weekend's edition of New Orleans' Clarion Herald leads with a development from Rome: a unanimous vote earlier this month by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints backing the decree of heroic virtue of Mother Henriette Delille (1813-62) -
- a Creole socialite who renounced family and fortune to found the Sisters of the Holy Family, which ministered to slaves and free African-Americans alike during the city's antebellum period and beyond.Her cause opened in 1989 and once the subject of a Lifetime movie (with Vanessa Williams playing her), a potential miracle attributed to Delille -- the reported 1998 healing of a young girl with a pulmonary condition -- has already been discovered by her community.
While the Vatican's saintmaking body has signed off on her heroic virtue -- completing a five-year review of the extensive documentation submitted by the NOLA church -- the Southern foundress can only be referred to as "Venerable" once Pope Benedict approves the decree, a move likely to take place later in April alongside the latest batch of sainthood causes.
The Wikipedia page he links is very interesting and the cause of Sainthood no doubt will open up an avenue of American History and culture being are unaware of.
That might be changing. Whispers has a nice article on the causes of folks that of course willbe significant to American black and also Creole Catholics Catholics. That is the nation's first Black priest, Fr Augustus Tolton and now coming out Louisiana Mother Henriette Delille.
As to our possible future New Orleans born Saint he says:
...meanwhile, down in Who Dat Country, this weekend's edition of New Orleans' Clarion Herald leads with a development from Rome: a unanimous vote earlier this month by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints backing the decree of heroic virtue of Mother Henriette Delille (1813-62) -
- a Creole socialite who renounced family and fortune to found the Sisters of the Holy Family, which ministered to slaves and free African-Americans alike during the city's antebellum period and beyond.Her cause opened in 1989 and once the subject of a Lifetime movie (with Vanessa Williams playing her), a potential miracle attributed to Delille -- the reported 1998 healing of a young girl with a pulmonary condition -- has already been discovered by her community.
While the Vatican's saintmaking body has signed off on her heroic virtue -- completing a five-year review of the extensive documentation submitted by the NOLA church -- the Southern foundress can only be referred to as "Venerable" once Pope Benedict approves the decree, a move likely to take place later in April alongside the latest batch of sainthood causes.
The Wikipedia page he links is very interesting and the cause of Sainthood no doubt will open up an avenue of American History and culture being are unaware of.
Update- I pick this up again today at More On Louisiana's First Possible Native Saint- Henriette Delille
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