In 2016, Pope Francis named Father Rother a martyr of the faith, the first martyr from the United States, and in 2017 he became the first beatified U.S.-born.
Twenty-nine men who have been called to seminary have moved into the Blessed Stanley Rother House of Formation, or Rother House, for the new propaedeutic stage of priestly formation at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. Following a week of orientation, the Seminary held a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony on August 22 in which Archbishop William E. Lori, S.T.D., S’77, blessed every room in the building with Holy Water. The event, appropriately held on the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, included Mass in the Rother House’s Mary, Mother of the Fairest Love Chapel.
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