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[puellapaschalis]

Thomas a Kempis isn't a saint already?! IEKS!

I propose: [b]Anscar Vonier[/b].

Great thread!!

[LouisvilleFan]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' post='1738652' date='Dec 30 2008, 06:22 AM']I'm reading that, too, but I guess I'd just assumed he'd been canonised.[/quote]

[quote name='puellapaschalis' post='1738658' date='Dec 30 2008, 07:20 AM']Thomas a Kempis isn't a saint already?! IEKS![/quote]

Nope... committed the unforgiveable sin of trying to crawl out of his own grave.

[Era Might]

Pope Leo XIII
Pope Pius XII
Pope John Paul II
Pope Benedict XVI
Mother Teresa
Mother Angelica

Sister Josefa Menendez. I don't know too much about her, but I have her diary. She is sort of the Spanish Faustina Kowalksa.

[Didacus]

John-Paul the Great (also, I'd like to see him be declared a Church doctor and declared magnus).

Mere Marie-Rose. (half-way there, she is a 'bienheureuse')

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1738775' date='Dec 30 2008, 10:36 AM']Nope... committed the unforgiveable sin of trying to crawl out of his own grave.[/quote]
Doesn't seem unforgiveable to me, seems a proper duty, to preserve the life God gave you.

[LouisvilleFan]

[quote name='cmotherofpirl' post='1738864' date='Dec 30 2008, 11:26 AM']Doesn't seem unforgiveable to me, seems a proper duty, to preserve the life God gave you.[/quote]

Well, there's only one unforgiveable sin in God's eyes, but in humanity's (and the eyes of Christians), there are lots of them. Trying to escape your own coffin... praying with Buddhists... suicide... crucifying the Son of God... I mean, people can be really picky.

Edited December 30, 2008 by LouisvilleFan

[CatherineM]

I'd like to see a bunch of Catholics that saved Jews in WWII to be canonized. I think we should be publicizing more on those who really risked themselves to put away once and for all that we stood by and did nothing.

[the lords sheep]

[quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1738627' date='Dec 30 2008, 09:19 AM']I doubt the Church could ever consider a cause for his canonization. He experimented with Eastern religions on too personal of a level and didn't maintain a strong public witness to Catholicism as someone we should hold up as an example for future generations. Still, he wrote some excellent books and is certainly a man to be admired and respected, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Since I'm slowing working through "Imitation of Christ," I have to suggest Thomas A'Kempis. There was a cause for him... until they interred his casket and found scratch marks inside. He was apparently buried alive and it appeared that by trying to dig out of his tomb, he had despaired in the last moments of his life. That strikes me as a bit superstitious. For one, if anything would cause a person to panic at least temporarily, I think finding yourself buried alive would be it. Second, just because he tried digging out (who wouldn't?) doesn't mean he didn't realize his fate, make his peace with God, and die quietly. But, the tradition against A'Kempis is so well ingrained, Merton probably stands a better chance. [/quote]

I've heard that about Thomas A'Kempis. I have also heard that there were fingernail marks on the inside ... I was told that its more that they can't be certain that he didn't despair and that he died trusting in God.
As far as Thomas Merton goes, he was a huge voice for ecumenicism and way ahead of his time at that. I don't know that he "dabbled" in eastern religions as much as he studied them and tried to dialogue with them (at least I've never seen anything that said he'd adapted eastern practices...). But, I don't think that would be the main concern; similar to A'Kempis, we don't know that state of his mind/soul when he died because he died from electrocution when his fan fell into the bathtub.

[LouisvilleFan]

Pretty sure Merton died from a lighting strike, though I think he was in his hotel room at the time.

[Mari Therese]

JPII
Mother Theresa
Bl. Brother Andre

Is Simon of Cyrene a saint?

[she_who_is_not]

I'm only going to echo others
The Martins
John Henry Newman!!!!!
Julian of Norwich
Flannery O'Connor

and some newbies
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (Mother Alphonsa)
Mother Lurana of Graymoor

[MissyP89]

John Paul II
Bl. Pier Giorgio Frassati
Bl. Teresa of Calcutta
And hopefully not for a very long time, Mother Angelica. I owe her for my reversion.

(I don't see a cause for Flannery O'Connor, but I love her!)

[T-Bone _]

Things like this make me think of the Simpsons episode, where Homer plays Henry VIII, and he "cannonizes" Flanders.

[Lil Red]

+J.M.J.+
[quote name='tinytherese' post='1738479' date='Dec 29 2008, 08:47 PM']Blessed Margaret of Costello

Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati

G.K. Chesterton

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen[/quote]
all agreed.

[quote name='BG45' post='1738538' date='Dec 29 2008, 09:58 PM']First, for personal reasons, Blessed Margaret of Costello.[/quote]
can i ask why? honestly, many people i speak to about Bl. Margaret never heard of her! but i fell in love with her and her witness when i read a book about her life.

[quote name='LouisvilleFan' post='1738627' date='Dec 30 2008, 12:19 AM']Fr. Gregor Johann Mendel? Now there's one does deserve a cause, considering the role of genetics in bio-ethics and how important that will be in our future.[/quote]
definitely! there was an article in "This Rock" magazine awhile back about priests/brothers who advanced science. [url="http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2008/0809fea2.asp"]here it is[/url].

[Lil Red]

+J.M.J.+
oh, "This Rock" also had an article about Thomas Merton this year too. [url="http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2008/0805fea1.asp"]Can you Trust Thomas Merton?[/url], and [url="http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2008/0805fea1sb1.asp"]Recommended Merton Readings[/url].