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Celebrating Everyday Spirituality

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Celebrating Everyday Spirituality

Blessed Stanley Rother: Diocesan Priest and Martyr

The latest American to be beatified (a step in the process of becoming a saint) hails from a small town in western Oklahoma. His name is Father Stanley Rother. Not only is he the first recognized American martyr, he is also the first beatified American-born male. Father Rother was born on March 27, 1935 in […]