Pope declares sainthood of venerated Dominican laywoman
A blind 14th-century Italian lay Dominican is proclaimed a saint using a process known as equipollent canonization
Updated: April 27, 2021 05:24 AM GMT
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A statue of St. Margaret of Castello at St. Patrick Church in Columbus, Ohio. (Photo: wikipedia)
Pope Francis has issued a decree declaring the sainthood of Blessed Margaret of Città di Castello, a much-loved Italian Dominican laywoman.
The decree is what the Vatican terms an equipollent or equivalent canonization; when there is evidence of strong devotion among the faithful to a holy man or woman, the pope can waive a lengthy formal canonical investigation and can authorize the person s veneration as a saint.
Pope proclaims sainthood of venerated Dominican laywoman
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Blessed Margaret of Citta-di-Castello, Virgin
It must have been about the year 1293 when some women of Citta-di-Castello in Umbria, who had gone one day to pray in their parish church, found within, a destitute blind child of about six or seven, who had been abandoned there by her parents. The kind souls were filled with pity for the little waif, and, poor though they were, they took charge of her - first one family and then another, sheltering a