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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.

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 a Mass celebrated by Fr. George Joyce, Audrey's spiritual director, the consecrated host begins to bleed spontaneously.

An image of Saint Rita of Cascia in Audrey's room was the first religious object to spontaneously bleed. On this date in 1996, the feast of Saint Rita of Cascia, a second host begins to bleed during a Mass that Fr. George Joyce celebrates in the Santo home.

On this date in 1996, at a Mass celebrated by Fr. George Joyce, a third host begins to bleed during Mass.

On this day in 1996, at a Mass celebrated by Fr. George Joyce, and concelebrated with Fr. Potvin and Fr. Tom McCarthy, a fourth host bleeds during Mass. The moment is recorded live on video by a film crew from Franciscan Media.

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.

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.