Saint Joseph of Cupertino.
Artist: Placido Costanzi.
Date: 1750.
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Credit Line: Gift of Everett Fahy.
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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 14.
Time After Pentecost.
Book V.
While, in France, the rising spirit of Jansenism was driving God from the hearts of the people, a humble son of Saint Francis, in Southern Italy, was showing how easily love may span the distance between Earth and Heaven.
“And I, if I be lifted up from the Earth, will draw all things to Myself,” [Saint John xii. 32.] said Our Lord; and time has proved it to be the most universal of His prophecies.
On the Feast of The Holy Cross, we witnessed its truth, even in the domain of social and political claims. We shall experience it in our very bodies on the great day, when we shall be taken up in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air. [Saint Paul 1 Thess. iv. 16.]
Saint Joseph of Cupertino.
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But Joseph of Cupertino had experience of it without waiting for the Resurrection: Innumerable witnesses have borne testimony to his life of continual ecstasies, wherein he was frequently seen raised high in the air. And these facts took place in what men are pleased to call the noon-day of history.
Joseph died at the place and time he had foretold, namely, Osimo in Picenum, in the sixty-first year of his age.
He was famous for Miracles after his death; and was enrolled among the Blessed by Pope Benedict XIV and among the Saints by Pope Clement XIII.
Pope Clement XIV, who was of the same Order, extended his Office and Mass to the Universal Church.
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