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During the 1930s, Fr. John Murray, started the Annual Nine Day Novena to St. Gerard Majella, beginning on 8 October and finishing on his feast day, 16 October. Fr. Hugo Kerr erected a shrine to St. Gerard in the church in 1939. Today the Novena continues to grow with over 10,000 people attending the Novena on a daily basis. [3]
Majella was beatified in Rome on 29 January 1893 by Pope Leo XIII. He was canonized less than twelve years later on 11 December 1904 by Pope Pius X. [5] The feast day of Saint Gerard Majella is October 16. In 1977, St. Gerard's Chapel in St. Lucy's Church (Newark, New Jersey) was dedicated as a national shrine. Each year during the Feast days ...
Roman Catholic prayers (5 C, 67 P) S. Sacred Heart devotions (5 P) Scapulars (26 P) ... Novena; St. Gerard Majella Annual Novena; O. Our Lady of Andacollo;
Gerard Majella visited the sanctuary at the age of 7 with his mother, who was making a pilgrimage there and was moved by the statue of the Virgin Mary. [4] Later, as a Redemptorist brother, Majella was assigned to the monastery in 1754, and died there on October 16, 1755. [2]
Gerard of Toul (935–994), bishop of Toul, now in France; Gerard of Csanád (980–1046), bishop of Csanád; Gerard of Potenza (died 1118), bishop of Potenza in Italy; Gerard of Clairvaux (died 1138), French monk; Gerard of Lunel (1275–1298), French saint; Gerard Majella (1726–1755), Italian saint
St. Lucy's Church is a historic church at 19-27 Ruggiero Plaza at the intersection of Seventh Ave.in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. It is home to the American National Shrine of Saint Gerard Majella in the Catholic Church. It was built in 1925 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
The church is home parish, established 20 April 1978 by Cardinal Ugo Poletti Vicar with the decree His Holiness. It is home to the cardinal's title of "St. Gerard Majella", instituted by Pope John Paul II 26 November 1994.
St. Gerard Majella Annual Novena held each October at St. Joseph's Redemptorist Church, Dundalk, Ireland Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Saint Gerard Majella .