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  • His answer, three cycles of images portraying 135 saints and "blesseds" -- females and males of all ages, races, occupations and vocations from all over the world -- expresses to the cathedral's diverse visitors the idea that "a saint could look like me."

    John Seed: John Nava: The Timelessness of Now John Seed 2010

  • His answer, three cycles of images portraying 135 saints and "blesseds" -- females and males of all ages, races, occupations and vocations from all over the world -- expresses to the cathedral's diverse visitors the idea that "a saint could look like me."

    John Seed: John Nava: The Timelessness of Now John Seed 2010

  • His answer, three cycles of images portraying 135 saints and "blesseds" -- females and males of all ages, races, occupations and vocations from all over the world -- expresses to the cathedral's diverse visitors the idea that "a saint could look like me."

    John Seed: John Nava: The Timelessness of Now John Seed 2010

  • His answer, three cycles of images portraying 135 saints and "blesseds" -- females and males of all ages, races, occupations and vocations from all over the world -- expresses to the cathedral's diverse visitors the idea that "a saint could look like me."

    John Seed: John Nava: The Timelessness of Now John Seed 2010

  • One lesson that believers might take from the new "blesseds" is that sanctity comes in many styles.

    His Wife's a Saint, So Is Her Husband 2008

  • Two others are "blesseds," one step below saints on the ladder to canonization.

    USATODAY.com - Shapers of today's church 2005

  • This page gives the details of the canonization process and some pictures of the blesseds.

    A Little Rock'n'Roll with our Elevenses John 2008

  • Icons of the saints and blesseds of the Americas surrounded the altar, looking down on those gathered here to celebrate the Eucharistic feast.

    Archive 2009-09-01 Michelle 2009

  • The dome above the sanctuary is surrounded by icons of sixteen saints and blesseds and as I waited for Mass to begin, those contemplations of the Exercises which invoke the communion of saints began to rise once again.

    The communion of saints Michelle 2009

  • The dome above the sanctuary is surrounded by icons of sixteen saints and blesseds and as I waited for Mass to begin, those contemplations of the Exercises which invoke the communion of saints began to rise once again.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Michelle 2009

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  • Beatified individuals or blesseds according to the Catholic Church.

    January 19, 2017

  • The beatings will continue until morale improves.

    January 20, 2017