July 13
Saints of the Day
 

Blessed Carlos Manuel Cecilio Rodriguez Santiago, "Charly", 1918-1963
A laymen, Puerto Rico's first Blessed, "we live for this night" he used to say about the Paschal Vigil of Easter Sunday. Several Liturgy publications and activities.

    Second of five children born to Manuel Baudilio Rodriguez and Herminia Santiago; one of his sisters is a Carmelite nun, one brother a Benedictine monk, the first Puerto Rican to be an abbot.
    Suffered from ulcerative colitis from age 13, which interrupted a brilliant scholarly career; he completed high school, but it was several years before he could move on to college.    

    Office clerk at Caguas, and at the University of Puerto Rico Agriculture Experiment Station. Translator, converting English documents to Spanish. Used his translating skills to write, and his modest salary to publish Liturgy and Christian Culture magazines. With the help of Father McWilliams, he founded a Liturgy Circle at Caguas. With Father McGlone, he organized the chorus Te Deum Laudamus.

    His principal apostolic work was at Catholic University Center, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico where he evangelized to students and teachers. Organized another Liturgy Circle (Circulo de Cultura Christiana: Christian Culture Circle). Published Christian Life Days to help university students enjoy liturgical seasons. Member of the Brotherhood of Christian Doctrine, Holy Name Society, and Knights of Columbus.
    Taught catechism to high school students. Encouraged liturgical renewal among clergy and laity; worked for active participation of the laity, the use of vernacular language, and devotion to the Paschal Vigil - all prior to Vatican II.

    His health declined further; he suffered from rectal cancer, and the misery of aggressive surgery in 1963. At one point he felt himself abandoned by God, but soon rediscovered his faith, and his enthusiasm. Puerto Rico's first blessed... and the first Blessed of the Caribbean Islands.
Born 22 November 1918 at Caguas, Puerto Rico
Died 13 July 1963 of cancer
Venerable 7 July 1997 by Pope John Paul II   Beatified 9 April 2001 by Pope John Paul II; the miraculous cure of a patient's non-Hodgkins malignant lymphoma in 1981 is attributed to him; his Cause is unique, being carried forward by the laity.
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Saint Teresa of Los Andes, 1900-1920
She is the Carmelite Little Flower of the Americas, the first Chilean canonized

    One needn’t live a long life to leave a deep imprint. Teresa of Los Andes is proof of that.
    Discalced Carmelite mystic and the first Chilean to be beatified or canonized. She was baptized Juanita Fernandez Solar, born in Santiago, Chile. on July 13.1900. Devoted to Christ from a very young age, she entered the Dised Iced Carmelite monastery at Los Andes. on May 7, 919. There she was with the religious name of Teresa of Jesus.
    Her life was entirely normal and balanced. She attained an unenviable maturity, integrating with admirable harmony the human and the divine: prayer, study, the small things about the house... her beloved sport in which she distinguished herself in swimming and horse riding.
    Being a lovely, very beautiful young girl, interested in sport, happy, well balanced, obliging and responsible, Teresa of Los Andes is an unbeatable model to attract youth in search of Christ, and as a reminder to all, that in fulfilling the Gospel call to love, we realize ourselves as persons.
    She died on April 12, of the following year, having made her religious profession as a Carmelite. A model for young people, Teresa was beatified in 1987 in Santiago, Chile, and was canonized by Pope John Paul II on March 21.1993.
    Through her intercession, the Lord is releasing a copious flood of graces and favors of all kinds drawing uncountable prodigal children to himself. Her sanctuary, visited by more than one hundred thousand pilgrims each month, has been converted into the spiritual center of Chile. In this way Teresa of Los Andes is fulfilling her mission that was already recognized a short time after her death: to create a hunger and a thirst for God in our materialized world.

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http://www.deaconlaz.com/saint_teresa_of_los_andes.htm
http://www.americancatholic.org/Features/SaintOfDay/?id=1900
 

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