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Tickets to the September 2026 beatification of Venerable Fulton J. Sheen are quickly being snapped up, with thousands claimed when they became available June 23.

As the nation marks its 250th anniversary, a California-based initiative is working to help speed along sainthood causes among Americans, and to make the canonization process more accessible overall.

The canonizations will elevate to sainthood seven candidates who hail from Venezuela, Turkey, Papua New Guinea and Italy.

Blessed Carlo was a computer programer and Eucharist devotee who died of cancer in 2006 at age 15. Young people are especially drawn to Blessed Carlo, who will be canonized April 27.

The Little Sisters of the Poor, a religious congregation founded in 1839, serves the elderly poor in over 30 countries around the world. Now one of their own needs prayers.

Argentina will get its first home-grown female saint in early 2024 with the canonization of Blessed María Antonia de San José. Born as María Antonia de Paz Figueroa, she is known throughout Argentina as Mama Antula.

One hundred and eighty years ago Ira Dutton was born in Stowe on farmland upon which now stands Blessed Sacrament Church. “No one at that time had the slightest inkling that 180 years later, people from Hawaii and people from Stowe and beyond would be together (in the church) to give thanks to God for his birth and his presence among us,” said Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva. He was the homilist and celebrant of a special Mass celebrated in April at Blessed Sacrament Church to mark the 180th anniversary of the birth of Dutton, now known as Servant of God Joseph Dutton.

Even before consideration of these three, the bishops’ Committee on Canonical Affairs and Church Governance estimated there are more than 85 sainthood causes at various stages of the beatification or canonization process in at least 55 U.S. dioceses.