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Canonized along with Blessed Thomas will be his colleague John Cardinal Fisher who joined him in defying Henry VIII and losing his head. Canonization date: the Feast of St. Ives (May 19), patron of lawyers...
...tearing and gulping the carrion. They were bald eagles, of which only an occasional pair had hitherto been seen in the neighbor hood. Since then Cherryfielders have dropped their ordinary recreations to watch the birds. Twice each day, at sun rise and sunset, the eagles swoop on the stinking feast from their five-foot-wide nests in the trees of Cat's Skin Mountains. Observers have been able to approach within 400 ft. of the birds. A truckman's wife counted 30 at one time through her field glasses. Ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross, who had never seen more...
...matters, did not feel like withholding. One was a seal inscribed in Hebrew: "To Gedaliah, who rules the house." Gedaliah, son of Ahikam, was an honorable and generous man ("gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil") appointed by Nebuchadnezzar to govern conquered Mizpah (Jeremiah 40: 7-16). The Feast of Gedaliah is still celebrated by orthodox Jews the week before Yom Kippur...
...Montreal one morning last week, hundreds of pious folk began toiling up the icy slopes of Mount Royal to a long, low crypt cut out of the rock of the Côte des Neiges. Many of them brought food, planning to spend the day which was the feast of St. Joseph, foster father of Christ. By nightfall 50,000 pilgrims had crowded into the crypt. They had heard pontifical high mass sung by Montreal's Auxiliary Bishop Alphonse Emmanuel Deschamps, later assisted at benediction of the Blessed Sacrament given by Vicar General Monseigneur Conrad Chaumont. They crossed themselves...
...Joseph. This building, which will eventually cost some $6,000,000, is planned as a granite and limestone cruciform basilica, topped by a 95-ft. dome. To its completed crypt go from 5,000 to 10,000 people on ordinary days, 25,000 to 50,000 on feast days. Of the cures registered and checked by physicians before and after every health-seeking visit, none is a "first class" miracle involving growth of new bone tissue. Typical "second class" cures reported from the Oratory are restoration of sight lost from atrophied optic nerves, healing of tuberculosis, cancer, gangrene, paralysis, rheumatism...