Has everyone here heard about Fr. Solanus, it is nice to know that America too has produced a Saint.

About Solanus Casey

Fr. Solanus Casey, Capuchin Franciscan, was born Bernard Francis Casey on November 25, 1870 on a farm near Oak Grove, Wisconsin. He was the sixth child in a family of ten boys and six girls born to Irish immigrant parents. Bernard left the farm to work throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota as a logger, hospital orderly, street car operator, and prison guard.

At the age of 21 Bernard entered St. Francis High School Seminary in Milwaukee to study for the diocesan priesthood. Five years later he contemplated a religious order. Invested in the Capuchin Order at Detroit in 1897, he received the religious name of Solanus.

After his ordination in 1904, Fr. Solanus spent 20 years in New York, Harlem, and Yonkers. In 1924 he was assigned to St. Bonaventure Monastery in Detroit where he worked for 20 years.

Fr. Solanus spent his life in the service of people. At the monastery door as porter he met thousands of people from every age and walk of life and earned recognition as "The Doorkeeper." He was always ready to listen to anyone at any time, day or night.

During his final illness, he remarked, "I'm offering my suffering that all might be one. If only I could see the conversion of the whole world." His last conscious act was sitting up in bed and saying, "I give my soul to Jesus Christ." He died at the age of 86 on July 31, 1957 at the same day and hour of his First Holy Mass 53 years earlier.



http://www.solanuscasey.org/about.shtml

Thanks Myrna, everyone should know about Father Solanus.  
It is such a pity that just like everything else, the new church has made
the Father Solanus center a post V2 Disneyland. Check out the following link,

http://www.solanuscenter.org/tour/atrium.shtml

It's a photo of the atrium at the center where the life size beatitudes reside.
Complete with a statue of Martin Luther King Jr. (Didn't know he was Catholic)

I have often thought about going to visit the center at the monastery but
just can't overcome my disgust of the new church-ness of the place.  

I would like to visit his place of burial and traditional Catholics living near there should take advantage.  Ignore the novelties of VII, I am sure Fr. Solanus does.

In God's perfect time, these novelties will be destroyed.

Thanks for the nudge Myrna, I will go see the casket holding the remains
of Fr. Solanus.  I'll do it as soon as I get rid of some of the memories of
my mother's new church funeral.  I'm hoping God will be merciful and
erase the memory of much of what I saw.  Thanks again Myrna!    

Quote from: MyrnaM

I would like to visit his place of burial and traditional Catholics living near there should take advantage.  Ignore the novelties of VII, I am sure Fr. Solanus does.

In God's perfect time, these novelties will be destroyed.

Thanks for the nudge Myrna, I will go see the casket holding the remains
of Fr. Solanus.  I'll do it as soon as I get rid of some of the memories of
my mother's new church funeral.  I'm hoping God will be merciful and
erase the memory of much of what I saw.  Thanks again Myrna!    

Take pictures and post them.