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January 23, 2002

 

EWTN asks prayers for recovery of Mother Angelica

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (CNS) — People interested in praying for the recovery of hospitalized Mother Angelica, founder of Eternal Word Television Network, can use the EWTN Web site to register their spiritual offerings, the network announced.

The announcement also asked that people offer their rosaries, novenas, Masses, Communions, Holy Hours and individual prayers for the intercession of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, a 19th-century Redemptorist priest who worked in the United States.

Mother Angelica was operated on Dec. 24 to remove a blood clot from her brain after suffering a second stroke in less than four months. The 78-year-old Mother Angelica, a Poor Clare of Perpetual Adoration, was expected to be moved from intensive care to a private room Jan. 16. Doctors listed her condition as fair.

The Web site address is www.ewtn.com and it has an electronic form which people can use to register their "spiritual bouquet."

Father Seelos, who was beatified by Pope John Paul II two years ago, was born in Fussen, Germany, on Jan. 11, 1819. He arrived in the United States in 1843 as a Redemptorist seminarian and was ordained in 1844 to work in Redemptorist parishes with mainly German immigrants. One of his early assignments was in Pittsburgh where he was assistant pastor to St. John Neumann.

Other assignments Father Seelos had were in Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, Michigan and Louisiana.

In 1863, while he was superior of a Redemptorist seminary, he met personally with President Abraham Lincoln to seek an exemption for seminarians from military service during the Civil War. The exemption was granted.

Father Seelos died of yellow fever in New Orleans on Oct. 4, 1867, at age 48.

 

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