The Passionists -

St. Paul of the Cross Province

 

Passionist Saints

A number of Passionists have been canonized. They include:

Saint Paul of the Cross - Founder of the Passionists

Saint Vincent Strambi - A Passionist Bishop

Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows - A Passionist Student

Saint Gemma Galgani - A Lay Passionist

Saint Innocencio of Mary Immaculate - A Martyr of the Spanish Civil War

Saint Charles of Mt. Argus - A Dutchman who worked and died in Dublin

Saint Maria Goretti - Reckoned as a Passionist Saint because she had Passionist Spiritual Directors


Other Passionists have been beatified, including:

Blessed Isadore of Saint Joseph - A Passionist Lay-Brother

Blessed Dominic Barberi - Who received John Henry Newman into the Catholic faith

Blessed Bernard Mary - The “Second Founder” of the Congregation

Blessed Grimoaldo of the Purification - A Passionist Student

Blessed Pius of St. Aloysius - A Passionist Student

Blessed Lorenzo Maria of St. Francis Xavier - Passionist Missionary

Blessed Eugene Bosilkov - The Martyred Bulgarian Passionist Bishop

The 26 Martyrs of Damiel - Martyrs of the Spanish Civil War


The causes for the canonization of two English Passionists have been opened.

Fr. Ignatius Spencer - the 'Apostle of Prayer for England'

Elizabeth Prout - Mother Mary Joseph of Jesus - Foundress of the Sisters of the Cross & Passion (Passionist Sisters)