Churches of the East: Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, July 7, 1946. Mother Cabrini canonized.

Churches of the East: Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, July 7, 1946. Mother Ca...: Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, July 7, 1946. Mother Cabrini canonized. : Italian born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized by Pope Pius X...

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, July 7, 1946. Mother Cabrini canonized.

Lex Anteinternet: Sunday, July 7, 1946. Mother Cabrini canonized.: Italian born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized by Pope Pius XII, the first American citizen to receive the same. She was the found...

Sunday, July 7, 1946. Mother Cabrini canonized.

Italian born Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized by Pope Pius XII, the first American citizen to receive the same.

She was the founder of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.  She is the Patron Saint of Immigrants.  She  founded 67 orphanages, schools and hospitals throughout the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean region, and in Europe during her lifetime.

The Presbyterian Church and the Episcopal Church, at that time probably the wealthiest church in the United States and the Church of the wealthy to some extent, announced they would merge, an odd announcement given their real theological differences.  

Not too surprisingly, the merger did not in fact occur.

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, March 30, 1945. Mère Marie Élisabeth de l'Eucharistie

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, March 30, 1945. Mère Marie Élisabeth de l...: 

Friday, March 30, 1945. Mère Marie Élisabeth de l'Eucharistie gassed at Ravensbruck. Maj. Gen. Maurice Rose killed in action.

Algerian born Élise Rivet, whose father was a French Naval officer and whose mother was Alsatian, also known as Mère Marie Élisabeth de l'Eucharistie was gassed at Ravensbruck Concentration Camp after volunteering to take the place of a mother who was slated for that fate.  She had been arrested in 1944 for harboring refugees fleeing the Germans and for allowing her convent to be used to store weapons for the Mouvements Unis de la Résistance at the request of Albert Chambonnet.

She was 55 years of age.

Some Gave All: Punchbowl, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, O'ahu, Hawaii

Some Gave All: Punchbowl, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacif...: 

Punchbowl, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, O'ahu, Hawaii

Perhaps the most beautiful, and in someways the most somber, National Cemetery, this is the "Punchbowl" on O'ahu, Hawaii.  

Created after World War Two as a final resting place for the thousands of US servicemen who had died in the Pacific, it was established in 1949 and contains the remains of over 61,000 US servicemen who lost their lives in World War Two, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.