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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 ...
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 ]
The Basilica of St. Gerard Majella [1] (Portuguese: Basílica de São Geraldo Magela) [2] or the Basilica of Curvelo is a church of the Catholic Church, located in Curvelo, [3] in the state of Minas Gerais, [4] Brazil. It was built in 1906 by Dutch Redemptorist missionaries and is the only basilica in the world dedicated to this Redemptorist saint.
The church is in the Old First Ward near Branch Brook Park, a historically Italian parish in what was Newark's Little Italy, features an annual October procession and festival for St. Gerard Majella, the patron saint of childbearing, that is heavily attended by the New Jersey Italian diaspora. The October Feast of St. Gerard "became so popular ...
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]
Gerard Majella (6 April 1726 – 16 October 1755), professed religious, canonized on 11 December 1904; Alfonso Maria de Liguori (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787), founder, bishop and Doctor of the Church, canonized on 26 May 1839; Klemens Maria Hofbauer (26 December 1751 – 15 March 1820), patron saint of Vienna and Warsaw, canonized on 20 ...
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On October 16, 1755, Gerard Majella (originally of Muro Lucano) died in this chapel and was buried there. He was canonized in 1904. Mainly for this reason, during the first half of the 20th century, it grew into a village in the neighborhood of the Basilica of San Gerardo Maiella , one of the most important and respected Catholic sanctuaries ...