DETROIT (CNS) — Father Solanus Casey, a Capuchin Franciscan “who would provide soup for the hungry, kind words for the troubled and a healing touch for the ill,” will be beatified Nov. 18, the Capuchin Franciscan Province of St. Joseph in Detroit has announced.
The ceremony will take place at Ford Field in Detroit, which the province said would be configured to accommodate 60,000 people.
A member of the Detroit-based province and one of the co-founders of the city’s Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Fr. Casey was born Nov. 25, 1870, and died July 31, 1957.
He will be the second American-born male to be beatified, after Father Stanley Rother, a North American priest from Oklahoma who in 1981 was martyred while serving the people of a Guatemalan village and will be beatified Sept. 23.
Fr. Casey also will be the first person from Michigan to achieve the designation. “We are filled with joy at receiving the final date of the beatification of Father Solanus,” said Capuchin Franciscan Father Michael Sullivan, provincial minister of the Province of St. Joseph. “It is a beautiful way to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his passing.”
“The beatification of Fr. Solanus will be a tremendous blessing for the whole community of southeast Michigan, an opportunity for all of us to experience the love of Jesus Christ,” Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron said in a statement after the beatification date was announced June 27.
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