Beatification

In fact, if you go to Naples today, to the church of Santa Maria dei Vergini, you can see that name in the baptism registry.

And you can also see that someone later wrote in the margin next to his name, Beatified September 1816, canonized 26 May 1839, declared a doctor of the church 23 March 1871.

He was the oldest of eight children, and of the seven who survived beyond infancy, five, including him, would become clergy or religious.

As a child, little Alfonso liked to play church and pretend to be a priest presiding over Mass.

Mm.

And, you know, it, and recently with all, just all these things that have been happening with Sheen and the Beatification, I mean, just so much has happened this year that it's, that has slipped away and I've been battling like each day.

But I will say this, my son took this on.

He's 15 years old.

of the Causes of

the Saints, Beatification.

canonization and all these things will come into me and I would open them up and read the article, and if I didn't already have that person on my list, I would put them down.

And so for instance, if we were just to look at my stuff on Italy, Italy alone, as a Word document, Italy alone is over 200 pages.