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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. Peterÿs 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 Thÿrÿse Martin   
   St. Thÿrÿse 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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