Solanus Casey
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Venerable Solanus Casey O.F.M. Cap. |
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25 November 1870 Oak Grove, Wisconsin, United States of America |
| Died | 31 July 1957 (aged 86) Detroit, Michigan, United States of America |
| Venerated in | Roman Catholic Church |
| Major shrine | Saint Bonaventure convent, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. |
| Attributes | Franciscan habit |
Solanus Casey (25 November 1870 - 31 July 1957) - born Bernard Francis Casey - was an American Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin. He was known during his lifetime as a wonderworker known for his great faith and his abilities as a spiritual counselor but also for his great attention to the sick for whom he celebrated special Masses. The friar was dubbed a wonderworker for his working of miracles during his life which made him a much sought-after individual and came to be a revered and notable figure in Detroit where he resided. He was also a noted lover of the violin which was a trait he shared with his namesake Saint Francis Solanus.
His cause for beatification commenced over a decade after his death and he became titled as Venerable in mid-1995. One miracle is required to be approved for him to be beatified with one such healing in the advanced stages of investigation.
Bernard Francis Casey (nicknamed "Barney") was born on 25 November 1870 on a farm in Oak Grove as the sixth of sixteen children to Bernard James Casey (October 6, 1840 - September 9, 1915) and Ellen Elizabeth Murphy (September 1, 1844 - February 5, 1918) who were both Irish immigrants. He was baptized on 18 December.
He contracted diphtheria in 1878 which permanently damaged his voice and left it wispy and slightly impaired; two siblings died as children from this also in 1878. The family later moved to Hudson. In 1878 he began school at Saint Mary's but this was cut short in October 1882 when the family relocated again though this time to Burkhardt in Saint Croix County. In 1887 he left the farm to work in a series of jobs in his home state and in Minnesota working as a lumberjack and a hospital orderly as well as working as a guard in the Minnesota state prison and a street car operator in Superior. His time as a prison guard saw him befriend a couple of Jesse James' cohorts. But it seemed that he desired the married love and when the mother of a girl he had proposed to jus as suddenly sent her off to a boarding school, he tempered this desire.
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