Saints are marching in!!

Yes I know the New Orleans Saints are off tommorrow. But it's a busy Sunday for Saints. In just a few hours Pope Benedict will canonize 5 new Saints including the founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor and the leper Saint of Hawaii.

Blessed Jeanne Jugan, founder of the Little Sisters was also known as Sister Mary of the Cross and was born in 1792. Over time she was called to minister to the elderly and dying and vowed that no one should die alone and afraid. She began a religious order called servants of the poor later to be known as the Little Sisters of the Poor. She died in 1879. A miracle cure of an American doctor from Nebraska was approved by rome as the final step in the process to declare Jeanne Jugan a Saint!

Blessed Damien de Veuster was a Belgian Priest who was a member of a missionary order. Fr. Damien found himself in Hawaii and was made aware of the infamous leper colony on Molokai. There with great charity and devotion he ministered tirelessly to the lepers in the small colony. He would eventually succumb to the disease and died in 1889, just 40 years old.

So both Jeanne Jugan and Damien de Veuster will be called Saints in just a few short hours. Along with Jeanne and Damien, Pope Benedict will also canonize Rafael Arnaiz Baron, Francisco Coll Guitart and Zygmunt Sczcesny Felinski.

So this Sunday, the Saints are marching in!!