VATICAN CITY (CNS) Although a normal beatification process was not followed, Pope Francis has declared as blessed Guy de Montpellier, a 12th-century French knight and founder of the Hospitaller Order of the Holy Spirit. By Our Apostolic authority, We inscribe in the catalogue of the blesseds Guy de Montpellier, and decree that his feast day will be celebrated Feb. 7 by the religious orders and institutes of the Holy Spirit in Sassia, the pope wrote in a document dated May 18, the vigil o
VATICAN CITY (CNS) Although a normal beatification process was not followed, Pope Francis has declared as "blessed" Guy de Montpellier, a 12th-century French knight and founder of the Hospitaller Order of the Holy Spirit."By Our Apostolic authority, We inscribe in the catalogue of the blesseds Guy de Montpellier," and decree that his feast day will be celebrated Feb. 7 by the religious orders and institutes of the Holy Spirit in Sassia, the pope wrote in a document dated May 18, the vigil of Pentecost.
The 12th-century French religious Guy of Montpellier founded the Hospitallers of the Holy Spirit and the Confraternity of the Holy Spirit, but is little known