Bl. Francis Xavier Seelos

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Feastday: October 5
1819 - 1867
Beatified By: April 9, 2000, Rome by Pope John Paul II

Francis Xavier Seelos was born in Fussen, Germany, in 1819. Expressing his desire for the priesthood since an early age, he entered the diocesan seminary of Augsburg after completing his studies in philosophy. Upon learning of the charism and missionary activity of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, he decided to join and go to North America. He arrived in the United States on April 20, 1843, entered the Redemptorist novitiate and completed his theological studies, being ordained a priest on December 22, 1844. He began his pastoral ministry in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he remained nine years, working closely as assistant pastor of his confrere St. John Neumann, while at the same time serving as Master of Novices and dedicating himself to mission preaching. In 1854, he returned to Baltimore, later being transferred to Cumberland and then Annapolis, where he served in parochial ministry and in the formation of the Redemptorist seminarians. He was considered an expert confessor, a watchful and prudent spiritual director and a pastor always joyfully available and attentive to the needs of the poor and the abandoned. In 1860, he was a candidate for the office of Bishop of Pittsburgh. Having been excused from this responsibility by Pope Pius IX, from 1863 until 1866 he became a full-time itinerant missionary preacher. He preached in English and German in the states of Connecticut, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Wisconsin. He was named pastor of the Church of St. Mary of the Assumption in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he died of the yellow fever epidemic caring for the sick and the poor of New Orleans on October 4, 1867, at the age of 48 years and nine months. The enduring renown for his holiness which the Servant of God enjoyed occasioned his Cause for Canonization to be introduced in 1900 with the initiation of the Processo Informativo . On January 27, Your Holiness declared him Venerable, decreeing the heroism of his virtues.

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Terry Washington
1 year ago
Just to remind every body- Wednesday is Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos's feast day!

Terry
Charles
2 years ago
Did Saint Seelos hav a special cruifix which he carried?

I have looked a different religious catalogs and can find no cruifix with his name on it.
Does anyone have information on this?

Charles
Myke Rosenthal-English
2 years ago
His cause for canonisation has gone to Rome.Now it is up to them.Here in Füssen(Fuessen),Germany we have a small Shrine in the Basilica of St Mang,where he was baptised 11th January 1819,the day he was born.To see more about his life in Füssen and places he was connected with go to the website SEELOS IN FÜSSEN at http://seelosinfuessen.eucharisticrenewal.org/ The Official site for information about Blessed Seelos is www.seelos.org
Jen Senecal
2 years ago
there were several cases of curing and a few of terminal cancer prior to his beatification in 2000

I think to be beatified he needed two miracles attributed to him, and I think to be
canonized he needs two additional miracles after beatification, to be considered for sainthood.

so, Bl. Father Francis Seelos, has not been canonized as a saint.....yet.
I "think" he needs another miracle attributed to him before that process can be completed.

If you go to www.seelos.org that is the web site for his national shrine in New Orleans. go down under latest news and updates. Go down to the fifth link, to the article by george matysek. There you will find of a case of a woman with esophagus cancer in 2004, which when she prayed a novena to Bl. Father Seelos, a week later her cancer was cured according to the doctors of the walter reed army medical center.

she did die in Oct 2009 but of phenumia, not of cancer. A CT scan 2 months before her death, revieled that she still was cancer free.

My mother has cancer and a friend told me of the shrine, and to go visit it.
I visited the shrine yeasterday, and pray to Bl. Father Seelos, that he will
interceed on her behalf and cure her sickness.
Cathy Wilson
2 years ago
I have taken Saint Francis Xavier Seelos as my Saint for The new year 2011...
I'm interested in learning of him...The statue at The Redemptorist Church in
K.C. is so nice...What's the up-date on him? Thank you Cathy WIlson
Jim Ellis
4 years ago
I'm finding it difficult to find out if Frances Xavier Seelos has been canonized as a Saint. If not, what is the status?

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