Washington D.C., Oct 23, 2012 / 09:17 am
To help Catholics learn more about the lives of the saints, the U.S. bishops' conference has offered a list of 10 American saints for the Year of Faith.
Jeannine Marino, program specialist for the bishops' conference's Secretariat of Evangelization and Catechesis, created the list. As an advisor to several causes for canonization and a postulator, she researches the lives of proposed saints.
The list includes St. Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit missionary and North American martyr who traveled to the New World from France. In 1641, the Iroquois captured him and his companions. The Iroquois tortured and killed most of his group. He was killed by a tomahawk in 1646.
St. Francis Xavier Cabrini, the foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is also on the list. Known as Mother Cabrini, she is the first U.S. citizen to be canonized.