Our saints of the year 2024

‘Behold the immense people of those who have sought you’

On 11 February 2024 and 20 October 2024, a number of blessed entered the ranks of the saints.

These 15 blesseds, different in origin, languages, nations, were canonised by Pope Francis. They are :

  • María Antonia de San José de Paz y Figueroa (1730-1799) nicknamed ‘Mama Antula’. This Argentine laywoman dedicated her life to proclaiming the Gospel through the spirituality of Saint Ignatius of Loyola;
  • The 11 martyrs of Damascus (eight Spanish and Austrian Friars Minor, Manuel Ruiz López and seven of his companions, and Friars Francis, Abdel Mooti and Raphäel Massabki, three Syrian Christians of the Maronite rite). They were massacred together on the night of 9 to 10 July 1860, for refusing to renounce their Christian faith.
  • Sister Marie-Léonie Paradis (1840-1912): Canadian nun who founded the congregation of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family in 1880. This congregation works with students in schools, colleges and seminaries and also serves the ministry of priests.
  • Sister Elena Guerra (1835-1914): Italian nun, they called her “the apostle of the Holy Spirit”. Foundress in 1972 of the Oblates of the Holy Spirit, a congregation dedicated to education, pastoral care and the promotion of devotion to the Holy Spirit.
  • Father Giuseppe Allamano (1851-1926), Italian priest and founder of the Missionaries of the Consolata in 1901 and the Missionary Sisters of the Consolata in 1910, congregations dedicated to evangelisation, particularly in Africa.

These saints gave a radical and ardent witness to the presence of God in their lives.

Let us entrust our journey of holiness to them, and may the words of the Apostle Paul be realised for every Christian: in Jesus Christ we have ‘received all riches, even that of the word and knowledge of God’.

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