Posted on 09/26/2018 6:15:13 PM PDT by marshmallow
WARSAW, Poland - A 22-year-old Romanian peasant has taken a step closer to sainthood as a “martyr to chastity,” six decades after she was murdered while resisting rape during the communist-era repression of the Catholic Church.
Cardinal Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes, said Veronica Antal’s fate was similar to that of persecuted Christians in ancient Rome, who had asked the same question: “Who will separate us from the love of God?”
Antal, a lay Franciscan who died in 1958, was the first Romanian woman to be beatified and first Romanian layperson formally honored as a martyr from the time of communist rule.
Becciu beatified her Sept. 23 at Assumption Church at Nisiporesti, Romania.
Born Dec. 7, 1935, the oldest of four children in Romania’s Moldavia province, Antal was taught the faith by her grandmother. Each day Antal walked five miles to Mass in the nearest church at Halaucesti. At age 17, she took vows of chastity as a Franciscan tertiary.
Unable to become a nun because all religious orders had been suppressed by the communists, she created a prayer cell near her parents’ house, from where she visited the sick and needy and helped prepare children for confirmation.
On the evening of Aug. 24, 1958, Antal stayed to sweep the church after a Mass. As she was walking home alone, praying the rosary, she was attacked by a neighbor, who stabbed her 42 times when she refused sex and left her to die in a cornfield.
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“A 22-year-old Romanian peasant has taken a step closer to sainthood...”
If he was’t a saint before death, he will not become one now.
All true believers in Christ are called saints by God in Scripture.
But saints with a little “s”.
There are not two kinds of saints in Scripture.
There is only one kind of saint in Scripture: the simple believer who has entrusted herself or himself to Christ alone for salvation.
At that moment, this person becomes a saint.
There are no other saints in Scripture.
In Heaven you become the big “S” Saint.
Got news for you: God never said that anywhere in Scripture.
Well you made a big deal of it first. Just simply telling it like it is.
Just call me a little “s” saint. God understands.
“God understands.”
When you change what He declares in Scripture, He doesn’t understand. He condemns every perversion of His truth.
Your viewpoint only.
Please do not ever post to me again. Thank -you.
You seem to confuse opinion with what is factually in Scripture or is not.
Big S little s is an opinion not in Scripture.
She not he. It would help if you read the post before going on your self-righteousness tirade.
Not self-righteous at all.
No one becomes a saint through self-righteousness.
Nor does anyone become as saint after death.
It’s a post about a young woman who was a follower of Christ and who loved Him enough to accept being murdered rather than renounce her commitment to Him. And you want to bully a fellow Christian over semantics. That is not being a person who has incorporated Sacred Scripture into their (self righteousness) lives. Learn what it means that He wants mercy not sacrifice.
“And you want to bully a fellow Christian over semantics”
She initiated a discussion. This is the point of open threads.
The article focus is on the young lady moving closer to sainthood.
This is of course false.
Funny, Jesus didn’t leave a book. He told the Apostles to go forth and baptize and teach what he had taught them.
He didn’t say, “Take along my book, fellows!” LOL!
(There was no Bible at that time — when will people understand this?)
Cardinal beatifies?
Popes beatify.
What’s going on here?
Thanks for demonstrating that you can't even be bothered to read the article before engaging in your ritual anti-Catholic denunciation.
Go start living up to your screen name instead of sowing dissension and doubt.
Truth in God’s Word isn’t doubt.
“Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God.”
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