Teenager to be canonized with Paul VI and Oscar Romero
As the bishops are discussing young people at the synod, young Nunzio Sulprizio will be declared a saint
Pope Francis announced that on October 14th in addition to Paul VI and Oscar Romero, five more people will be canonized, including a young Italian layperson.
The canonization of Blessed Nunzio Sulprizio, who died at age 19, is particularly appropriate as it will take place during the Synod of Bishops on young people and vocation.
Blessed Nunzio Sulprizio was born in Pescosansonesco, Italy, on April 13, 1817, and died in Naples on May 5, 1836.
He will be raised to the altars alongside the same pope who beatified him, Paul VI. His beatification took place as the Church was in the midst of the Second Vatican Council on December 1, 1963.
Nunzio lost both of his parents while still a child and was brought up by an uncle, who abused and exploited him, forcing him to work in his blacksmith shop.
The youth found refuge before the Tabernacle where he would keep Jesus company.
Eventually he contracted gangrene and suffered terribly, but was known to say things such as:
Jesus suffered so much for us and by his merits we await eternal life.
If we suffer a little bit, we will taste the joy of paradise.
Jesus suffered a lot for me. Why should I not suffer for Him?
I would die in order to convert even one sinner.
When asked who was taking care of him, he would respond: “God’s Providence”.
He died from bone cancer in May of 1836 at age 19.
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BIBLE STORIES RETOLD BY CHILDREN
In USA, the Irish Sisters of Mercy would make their impact on the battlefields in the Civil War, beginning a legacy in health care that is still going strong today.
“Veritable angels of mercy” are the words President Abraham Lincoln used to describe the nuns he saw tending wounded men, Lincoln wrote after visiting Stanton Hospital, staffed by the Sisters of Mercy, founded by Catherine McAuley in Dublin “Of all the forms of charity and benevolence seen in the crowded wards those of the Catholic sisters were among the most efficient,” And again he wrote “More lovely than anything in art are the pictures that remain with me of these sisters going on their rounds of mercy among the suffering and dying.”
to discover that he was her 18 year-old brother.
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