At an Oct. 19 ceremony, the Philadelphia Archdiocese announced it will send the canonization cause of Augustinian Father Bill Atkinson the Catholic Church s first quadriplegic priest to the Vatican.
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New saint a ‘great blessing’ for persons with disabilities, say local advocates
A statue of St. Margaret of Castello at St. Patrick Church in Columbus, Ohio. (Nheyob via Wikimedia/CC BY-SA 4.0).
By Gina Christian • Posted May 4, 2021
Local disability advocates are hailing the recent canonization of a 14th-century lay Dominican as a “great blessing.”
On April 24, Pope Francis declared Margaret of Castello a saint through a process called “equipollent (equivalent) canonization,” which recognizes longstanding devotion to the individual, enduring virtues and a legacy of miraculous intercession. St. Hildegard of Bingen and St. Francois de Laval are among those who have been elevated through the procedure.