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Ida Peterfy (1922–2000), Founder of the Society Devoted to the Sacred Heart (Slovakia-United States) Adão Salgado Vaz de Faria (1907–1990), Priest of the Archdiocese of Braga; Founder of the Congregation of Divine Providence and the Holy Family (Portugal)
In the Catholic Church, Servant of God is the style used for a person who has been posthumously declared "heroic in virtue" during the investigation and process leading to canonisation as a saint. [1] The term is used in the first of the four steps in the canonization process.
The expression Servant of God appears nine times in the Bible, the first five in the Old Testament, the last four in the New.The Hebrew Bible refers to Moses as "the servant of Elohim" (עֶֽבֶד הָאֱלֹהִ֛ים ‘eḇeḏ-hā’ĕlōhîm; 1 Chronicles 6:49, 2 Chronicles 24:9, Nehemiah 10:29, and Daniel 9:11).
Pope Gregory I (pope from 590 to 604), the first Pope to use this title extensively to refer to himself, [3] deployed it as a lesson in humility for the archbishop of Constantinople John the Faster (in office 582-595), who had been granted the traditional title "Ecumenical Patriarch" [4] by a Council convened in Constantinople in 587. [5]
Vashti was born on May 28, 1947, in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the daughter of Samuel Edward Smith and Ida Murphy Smith Peters. [6] She was named after her maternal grandmother, Vashti Turley Murphy, [7] who was one of 22 women who founded the Delta Sigma Theta sorority in 1913, while a student at Howard University.
World of Sand is the third album by Servant, released in 1982 on Rooftop Records. [1]World of Sand was the debut album for Rooftop Records, the new media arm of the Highway Missionary Society (the band's parent organization).
Giussani died on 22 February 2005 at the age of eighty-three. [3] He was interred in Milan's Cimitero Monumentale. [7]Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, (later Pope Benedict XVI), delivered the homily at his funeral, [8] where he said of Giussani: "[H]e understood that Christianity is not an intellectual system, a packet of dogmas, a moralism; Christianity is rather an encounter, a love story; it is ...
Roman Catholics declared a Servant of God. Many Servants of God later go on to be declared venerable, then to be beatified and canonized, but this list only includes those who have not (yet) done so. Many Servants of God later go on to be declared venerable, then to be beatified and canonized, but this list only includes those who have not (yet ...