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Minnesota Priest Joseph Buh's Canonization Cause Opens
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In Short: The Diocese of Crookston officially opened the canonization cause for pioneering Minnesota priest Joseph Francis Buh with a Mass on Sept.
The Diocese of Crookston officially opened the canonization cause for pioneering Minnesota priest Joseph Francis Buh with a Mass on Sept. 22, granting him the title “servant of God.”
According to Church legislation, a consultation of a body of bishops at either the regional or national level is required as a cause for canonization begins.
The priest’s cause involves an inquiry led by officials who took an oath to follow Church law.
In addition to Buh’s cause, the Diocese of Crookston is also investigating the cause of Benedictine Sister Annella Zervas, who died at 26 from a mysterious illness in 1926.
Buh mentored young priests, encouraging them to adopt his robust approach to ministry.
What's still developing
- The Slovenian immigrant priest heroically ministered and evangelized in northern Minnesota beginning in the late 1860s until his death in 1922 at age 88.
- After ministering for several years as a priest in his home country, then-Father Buh left for Minnesota to live as a missionary and pioneer, arriving in 1864.
- Over the course of his ministry, the priest lived in central Minnesota among Ojibwa people and immigrants in northern Minnesota, and established as many as 57 parishes.
- Cloud, Minnesota, entrusted the missions in northern Minnesota to Msgr.