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 Message 104 
 Mike Dippel to All 
 Are You Related to a Saint? 
 16 Mar 22 10:12:58 
 
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Thanks to http://wikitree.com, this week's featured notifications are my
relationships to 
people who have achieved sainthood. 
I am:

49 degrees from Patrick ap Calpurnius - Happy Saint Patty's Day

28 degrees from Tommaso d'Aquino
St. Thomas Aquinas is a Saint and Doctor of the Catholic Church and
Philosopher. He 
was a teacher in Cologne, Paris, Rome, and Naples. He is called "Doctor
Angelicus".
 16 degrees from Alfred Bessette
a lay brother of the Congregation of Holy Cross and a significant figure of the
Roman 
Catholic Church among French-Canadians, credited with thousands of reported 
miraculous oil healings associated with his pious devotion to Saint Joseph.

31 degrees from Titus Brandsma
Blessed Titus Brandsma will be canonized at St. Peter˙s Rome on Sunday 15th May
2022.
 21 degrees from Katherine Drexel
Mother Katharine Marie Drexel, the founder of the Catholic Sisters of the
Blessed 
Sacrament, was beatified in Rome on November 20, 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
She was canonized and declared a Saint on October 1, 2000 in Saint Peter's
Square, 
Vatican City by Pope John Paul II. Saint Katherine's Feast day is March 3 and
she is the 
Patron Saint of racial justice and philanthropists. 
27 degrees from Isaac Jogues
Isaac Jogues, S.J. was a French missionary and martyr who traveled and worked
among 
the Iroquois, Huron, and other Native populations in North America. He was the
first 
European to name Lake George, calling it Lac du Saint Sacrament 
60 degrees from Maksymilian Kolbe
The German Nazis brought Maximilian Kolbe to the concentration camp of
Auschwitz. He 
arrived at the 29th May 1941 in the camp and he was registered as prisoner
number 
16670, and on the 10th of October 1982 the Polish pope, John Paul II,
canonized him as 
Saint Maximilian Kolbe. 
41 degrees from Th˙r˙se Martin
St. Th˙r˙se of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face. Discalced Carmelite nun.
Canonized 
May 17, 1925 by Pope Pius XI. On October 19, 1997, declared a Doctor of the
Church, 
by Pope John Paul II. One of only four females with that title. 
26 degrees from Mary MacKillop
Mary Helen MacKillop RSJ also known as St Mary of the Cross MacKillop, is the
only 
Australian to be recognized by the Catholic Church as a saint.[1] Mary and the
Reverend 
Julian Tenison Woods founded the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart, a 
congregation of religious sisters who established a number of schools and
welfare 
institutions throughout Australia. On 17 July 2008 Pope Benedict XVI prayed at
her 
tomb. Pope Benedict XVI approved the Catholic Church's recognition of a second
miracle 
attributed to her intercession 19 December 2009. St. Mary MacKillop was
canonized on 
17 October 2010 during a public ceremony in St Peter's Square at the Vatican. 
19 degrees from Elizabeth Ann Seton
Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton was the first person born in (what would become) the
United 
States to be canonized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church. 
28 degrees from Birgitta Birgersdotter
Bridget of Sweden born as Birgitta Birgersdotter, also Birgitta of Vadstena, or
Saint 
Birgitta, was a mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines nuns and
monks after 
the death of her husband of twenty years. 
Mike Dippel

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