St. UX
November 25, 2024 11:31 AM Subscribe
He's Blessed, so that's a step towards Canonization. They have a lot of hoops to jump through.
The miracle attributed to him here is absurd: A woman in Costa Rica prayed to him after her daughter had a bicycle accident. The daughter recovered. THIS is what counts as a miracle these days? Embarassing.
posted by dis_integration at 11:44 AM on November 25 [12 favorites]
The miracle attributed to him here is absurd: A woman in Costa Rica prayed to him after her daughter had a bicycle accident. The daughter recovered. THIS is what counts as a miracle these days? Embarassing.
posted by dis_integration at 11:44 AM on November 25 [12 favorites]
THIS is what counts as a miracle these days? Embarassing.
Miracles are hard to prove nowadays! Modern miracle investigators: "Pics or it didn't happen."
posted by charred husk at 11:58 AM on November 25 [4 favorites]
Miracles are hard to prove nowadays! Modern miracle investigators: "Pics or it didn't happen."
posted by charred husk at 11:58 AM on November 25 [4 favorites]
St. UX is surely Walter Gropius.
(Don Norman isn’t dead, otherwise I imagine he’d be a shoe-in.)
posted by Going To Maine at 12:07 PM on November 25 [3 favorites]
(Don Norman isn’t dead, otherwise I imagine he’d be a shoe-in.)
posted by Going To Maine at 12:07 PM on November 25 [3 favorites]
"The miracle regarded the healing of an indigenous man in Cape Verde named Sorino Yanomami, who was attacked by a jaguar on February 7, 1996, in the Amazonian forest."
This is surely a miracle, considering that Cape Verde is in Africa.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 12:22 PM on November 25 [3 favorites]
This is surely a miracle, considering that Cape Verde is in Africa.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 12:22 PM on November 25 [3 favorites]
The miracle attributed to him here is absurd: A woman in Costa Rica prayed to him after her daughter had a bicycle accident. The daughter recovered. THIS is what counts as a miracle these days? Embarassing.Millennials are killing the canonization industry?
posted by It is regrettable that at 1:20 PM on November 25 [8 favorites]
St. UX is surely Walter Gropius.
I was going to say Edward Tufte. Also would have accepted Jared Spool.
(Both still alive? So not technically eligible yet...)
posted by gimonca at 1:26 PM on November 25 [1 favorite]
I was going to say Edward Tufte. Also would have accepted Jared Spool.
(Both still alive? So not technically eligible yet...)
posted by gimonca at 1:26 PM on November 25 [1 favorite]
There’s more than one Cabo Verde?
I'm sure there are many, but if you say "Cape Verde" without any contest, people are going to assume the country. Also, the Cabo Verde in Brazil is in southern Minas Gerais, which is literally at least a thousand kilometers from the Amazon rainforest.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:30 PM on November 25 [2 favorites]
I'm sure there are many, but if you say "Cape Verde" without any contest, people are going to assume the country. Also, the Cabo Verde in Brazil is in southern Minas Gerais, which is literally at least a thousand kilometers from the Amazon rainforest.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 1:30 PM on November 25 [2 favorites]
There’s more than one Cabo Verde?
Looking into it, my best guess is that this is in fact an embarrassing geographical error by the Vatican (or the AP). Checking other accounts of what happened to Sorino, as his 'last name' indicates, he's a member of the Yanomami, who live in 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. After the jaguar attack, a nun of the Consolata Missionaries had him flown to the regional capital, Boa Vista, Roraima for medical care. Someone has confused that for Boa Vista, Cape Verde, 4386 km away.
posted by zamboni at 1:31 PM on November 25 [10 favorites]
Looking into it, my best guess is that this is in fact an embarrassing geographical error by the Vatican (or the AP). Checking other accounts of what happened to Sorino, as his 'last name' indicates, he's a member of the Yanomami, who live in 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil. After the jaguar attack, a nun of the Consolata Missionaries had him flown to the regional capital, Boa Vista, Roraima for medical care. Someone has confused that for Boa Vista, Cape Verde, 4386 km away.
posted by zamboni at 1:31 PM on November 25 [10 favorites]
The Cape Verde error is in the Vatican press release; it's also not related to Acutis' miracles but to that of Blessed Giuseppe Allamano (1851-1926), who is also on Saints' Row.
posted by chavenet at 1:42 PM on November 25 [3 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 1:42 PM on November 25 [3 favorites]
Boy, I really hope somebody got excommunicated for that blunder!
posted by jedicus at 1:54 PM on November 25 [6 favorites]
posted by jedicus at 1:54 PM on November 25 [6 favorites]
who is also on Saints' Row
Hopefully not the recent, bad remake/reboot of the series.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 2:08 PM on November 25 [3 favorites]
Hopefully not the recent, bad remake/reboot of the series.
posted by Joakim Ziegler at 2:08 PM on November 25 [3 favorites]
His real canonization miracle was making avocado toast without avocados.
posted by dr_dank at 4:31 PM on November 25
posted by dr_dank at 4:31 PM on November 25
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posted by tclark at 11:34 AM on November 25 [1 favorite]