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Brother James Miller Beatified HUEHUETENANGO, Guatemala, Dec. 7, 2019 (CNA) - The son of Wisconsin farmers, Brother James Miller, FSC, [was] beatified in Guatemala [on Saturday, Dec. 7], 36 years after he was shot and killed while working with school children and the indigenous poor in the country. A graduate of St. Mary’s University in Winona, MN, and a member of the De La Salle Christian Brothers, Miller is remembered for his generosity, courage, and zeal to serve the children of Central America. He is the first member of his order in the United States to be beatified. Brother Miller’s story strongly echoes that of Blessed Father Stanely Rother, another son of American farmers (this time from Oklahoma) who was murdered in Guatemala at his Santiago Atitlan mission, a mere seven months before Brother Miller’s murder. Rother was beatified in September 2017 in Oklahoma City. Both men are remembered for their courage, zeal for their mission, and their humility in their work. “No one is perfect, and yet Jim, like a lot of people, did things very quietly, behind the scenes. He never asked for recognition,” Brother Pat Conway, who first knew Miller as a student and then as a fellow brother, told Minnesota newspaper the Post Bulletin. James Miller was born on Sept. 21, 1944, to a farming family near Stevens Point, WI. He attended Pacelli High School, a Catholic school where he first encountered the Christian Brothers. Though he had also considered being a priest, Miller joined the order of brothers in September 1959, drawn to their apostolate in education. Three years later in the novitiate program, he chose the religious name Brother Leo William, but eventually went back to using his baptismal name, which had become common among the brothers.
Eucharistic Miracles Exhibit Changes Hearts By MAGGIE SONNEK
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After teaching high school in Minnesota for three years, Miller made perpetual vows in 1970 and was sent to Bluefields, Nicaragua, fulfilling his desire to work in the missions in Central America. In 1974, he was transferred to Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua, where he became the director of a school.
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Jan Bautoen was hoeing a plot of land in his small village in the Netherlands. When he lifted a piece of dirt, he found a completely intact Host — in perfect condition. Hundreds of miles away and 300 years later, during the Vespers and the solemn exposition in honor of the feast of Corpus Christi, the face of a Child, framed by thick brown curls, appeared in the Host. All the faithful present in the church saw the same vision. These are two of 126 Eucharist Miracles, visible proof of Jesus Christ’s real presence in the Eucharist. The miracles are part of a Vaticanapproved exhibit that was recently on display at Saint Mary’s University’s Alverna Center. The exhibit consists Miracles, cont'd on pg. 5
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