I am painting a picture of Fr. Denis, of C.M.R.I.  have searched the internet, but can't find any picture of him that show the color of his eyes, does anyone who knew him out there, remember?

I am painting a picture of Fr. Denis, of C.M.R.I.  have searched the internet, but can't find any picture of him that show the color of his eyes, does anyone who knew him out there, remember?

We were just talking about him yesterday after Mass!   I would love to see the picture when you are finished.  Although I never met him, it seems to me that I read somewhere that he had hazel (or green) eyes.  If you can find no one that remembers let me know and I will ask in my neck of the woods.

Yes, Amy, but it is black and white, I have finished the painting and will scan it.  I painted his eyes brown, but I can change them easily to hazel.

I do believe he is a Saint.  Why God took him away from us, I will never know unless we just didn't deserve him.  

Actually Axexandria, this is a strange true story:  Soon after he passed away, maybe one year.  My son who was married and his wife got pregnant with another mans baby.  

At the same time, my daughter was praying to get pregnant because she could not, and had already adopted one little girl, that was also a miracle.  (Another story)  

My son could not accept the child and my daughter-in-law wanted to make amends.  She was an Indian girl and she thought of adopting the child to someone but the only person that she would consider giving her child to was my daughter.  However the law is that if you are white, you can not adopt an Indian child anywhere in the U.S.  So we as a family never considered this happening.

I went to Fr. Denis's grave and made a novena to him, twofold, that my son and daughter-in-law would get back together, and that my daughter would receive a second baby to adopt, never asking for the Indian baby.

The miracle was that, my daughter-in-law went to her Indian tribe and pleaded with them to make an exception to the Indian rule, it went to trial there, and then to Olympia Washington to get approved by the U.S.A.  
Making a long story short, my daughter adopted the Indian baby, and my son and daughter-in-law got back together.

However, and so very sad, was the child we adopted passed away at the age of 3 years old, so grieved was my daughter and her husband, I thought they would lose their faith.  Father Dominic advised us to accept the Will of God and He, God, would bless us threefold.   My daughter was so unhappy, she wanted to give up and die.  She asked me if I knew any Saints to pray to, that might give her back the will to live.  I told her to pray to St. Therese because she lost all her infant brothers, and had much to say about little ones going home early.

My daughter prayed and prayed to St. Therese, making one novena after another, just asking for the will to carry on.  
It was around that time that the Vatican was passing the relics of St. Therese around the world, and when the relic came to Seattle, my daughter her husband drove to venerate them.  She pressed the picture of her son to the relic and asked for a consolation, that was January.  Nine months later she gave birth to a boy on the Feast of St. Therese, Oct 3 Traditional Calender, and since then she gave birth to 2 other children making that THREE.  "God will repay you THREEFOLD"!

Sorry, but my miracle story started with Fr. Denis and ended with St. Therese.

Yes, when Victor died I was so inspired to write that story in the Reign of Mary.

Here is my finished painting of Fr. Denis, I am hoping to use it for a fund raiser.  This year I have a graduate living with me, and they would like each family that has a graduate come up with a fund raiser for that Senior Class, for expenses at the end of the school term.   If Fr. Casimir agrees and if he would add something to this painting i.e. Fr. Denis rosary or something, I thought it would make a nice raffle during the Conference coming up for the Senior Class of 2010.


Oppps!  Just noticed I have to fix that one eye!
 

Beautiful poem Alexandria!  I will pray to him, also for you.  

Yes, that is the only picture I know of that has a good close up of his face, and every picture is always black and white.  

I fixed the eye, and it looks much better now.  

I am happy I scanned it into the computer because for some reason, it is so easy to spot the little errors, and they are easy to fix since I use watercolors when I paint.  Just a little  dab of water and blot;  presto.  

Thanks so much for pointing that out to me!