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Weather permitting, and in accordance with COVID-19 regulations, we will hold Mass outside behind the Foundation House on the first Saturdays through the summer. Following Mass, the museum and gift shop will be open for visitors, again given the regulations of COVID-19.

The development of the Atomic bomb, known as the Manhattan Project, needed to be proven by the actual detonation of the bomb. The testing was performed on this date, at a site named Trinity in the New Mexico desert. Please check back to join us for a prayer service for an end to the nuclear threat and the promotion of peace in our world, in our time.

The feast day of Saint Charbel (also rendered as Sharbel) of Lebanon, a hermit monk, and a relative of Audrey. There is a miracle of oil during his life when he desired to be a hermit. And upon his death, oil exuded from his body through the ground where he had been buried. His body continued to weep oil until he was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1977. He is known as the "Hermit of Lebanon." He is a patron saint for the Foundation for Audrey's cause.

The 76th anniversary of the first use of a nuclear weapon in warfare. The USA drops the bomb over the large city of Hiroshima in Japan. Before take off, 'Little Boy' is blessed by Fr. George Zabelka, the Catholic chaplain to the flight crew of the Enola Gay. After counseling a reconnaissance pilot who described the destruction he witnessed in the aftermath of the bombing, Fr. Zabelka spent the remainder of his priestly ministry as a peace advocate in penance for that action that brought the world to a nuclear age. This link will take you to his story.

Weather permitting, and in accordance with COVID-19 regulations, we will hold Mass outside behind the Foundation House on the first Saturdays through the summer. Following Mass, the museum and gift shop will be open for visitors, again given the regulations of COVID-19.

At 11:03 am, on this date, Audrey was found floating in the pool in her family's back yard. Her life, and theirs, would never be the same. Please check back to see as we get closer and protocols for COVID-19 to see what we plan according to what is allowed.

At 11:03 am local time, the second atomic bomb named 'Fat Boy' is dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. It is four times more powerful than the one detonated over Hiroshima three days earlier. Nagasaki was the third choice to be bombed. When weather conditions prevent the second target from being visualized, the crew of Bockscar flew to Nagasaki. Among the ruins is the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception on Santo Street, known as the Urakami Cathedral. Here is a link to the details of the destruction of what was once the largest Catholic Church in the Pacific. It is estimated on the day of the bombing there were 12,000 Catholics in the parish living in the neighborhood and that 8,500 did not survive the bombing.

Weather permitting, and in accordance with COVID-19 regulations, we will hold Mass outside behind the Foundation House on the first Saturdays through the summer. Following Mass, the museum and gift shop will be open for visitors, again given the regulations of COVID-19.

The Foundation for the Cause of the Canonization of Audrey Santo is legally incorporated in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Bishop Robert McManus gives an imprimatur to a prayer, written by Fr. Rene Laurentin, to be used.

The liturgical calendar feast for Saint Pio, more familiarly known as Padre Pio. Known to read souls, and having received the stigmata, Audrey is often associated with him. A replica of the his statue used at his canonization in Rome was a gift of Mother Angelica to Audrey and is in her room still. On his feast day, her relic of Padre Pio has been known to bleed. Padre Pio is a patron of the Foundation for Audrey's Cause.

Weather permitting, and in accordance with COVID-19 regulations, we will hold Mass outside behind the Foundation House on the first Saturdays through the summer. Following Mass, the museum and gift shop will be open for visitors, again given the regulations of COVID-19.

On this date in 1987, Audrey arrived at her family home on 64 S. Flagg Street from the hospital following her accident. Audrey is settled into a room directly off of the kitchen so that she can participate in family activities and daily life. This is the same day when in 1921 a bomb was detonated beneath the original tilma with the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. A pilgrim image of the tilma was the first to exude oil in Audrey's room.

Audrey Marie Santo is born in the midst of a snowstorm in Worcester, Massachusetts on this day in 1983.

Bishop Flanagan celebrates Mass in the Santo home and Audrey receives Holy Communion for the first time. Since Audrey can not bend at the waist to sit in a car or a car seat, the Bishop gives permission to the family to reserve the Blessed Sacrament so that Audrey can receive when they watch Mass on TV. Days later, the consecrated host is found to have bled.

The anniversary of the apparitions of Our Lady to Bernadette of Lourdes is celebrated as World Day of the Sick because of the many healing events and miracles that occur at the site, even today. Come and the experience the many graces of healing that have been received through Audrey's prayers and the holy oil of her room.

This is the traditional start of the season of Lent. A time of preparation, prayer and penance to celebrate our new life in Christ our Risen Lord. Please check your local parish for listings of services and the distribution of ashes to begin your Lenten discipline.

While Fr. Walter Riley is celebrating Mass on this date in 2010 at the Santo home, the consecrated hosts begins to spontaneously bleed. It does so for several weeks. This host is still used for adoration and benediction with pilgrims who visit the Santo home.

From the end of November of 2018 until February of 2019, the chapel at the Santo home was renovated with new lighting, paint, and new furnishings. On this date in 2019, Bishop Robert McManus celebrated Mass and blessed the chapel.

This observance of the Lord's entrance into Jerusalem begins what Christians identify as Holy Week. Even today, palms are blessed in remembrance of this triumphant arrival of the Messiah to his own city. Please consult your local parish for the times of the blessing of palms, weekend Masses and the distribution of palms.

On this date, God came to take Audrey to his eternal glory. Surrounded by her family and close friends, Audrey passed peacefully to our Lord. As she did, she cried out, the only thing she had spoke in nearly twenty years since her accident. Fr. George Joyce commented that it was the cry of Christ from the cross. In imitation of Him, she surrendered totally and wholeheartedly to God's will to her last breath.

This day is called Good even though the Lord died this day because by His death, we are saved from sin and its penalty of death. Because Christ died, we who deserve death have been ransomed and saved from death. In Him, by our baptism, we are given the promise of the inheritance of eternal life. Consult your local parish and listings for services to mark this day as a most sacred one. It is a day of fast and abstinence, meaning no meat or meat products for anyone over 14, and only one full meal (ort its equivalent in two smaller meals) for those who are between 16 and 59 years of age. Please check your local parish and listings for services to make this day holy. Many Christians keep the paschal feast until tomorrow evening, no meat or meat products and not more than one meal during the day.

The Lord is Risen! Check your local parish and listings for times for Masses to celebration our new life in our Risen Lord.

With the permission of Bishop Reilly, Bagislau Lapinski comes to the Santo home and performs scientific DNA testing on the host that appeared to bleed from the Mass that Bishop Flanagan celebrated in 1992. The testing and results were filmed on a video recorder where Mr. Lapinski explains the process and together they await the results of the testing. The results and the reaction of those present were recorded as they verified it is unquestionably human blood.

Audrey was called to the glory of God on the vigil evening of this feast. This Second Sunday of Easter celebrates the mercy of God as revealed to Saint Faustina, a cloistered Polish nun during the Nazi atrocities and the devastation of World War II. Today, as much as we ever have, we need to trust in the mercy of God. Please consult your local parish for prayers and devotions on this important liturgical feast.