ST. LOUIS – Tens of thousands of Catholics will fill the Dome at America’s Center for the upcoming beatification Mass for Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. The service will bring the archbishop one step closer to sainthood.
Tickets for the beatification Mass are available through the Celebrate Sheen website. Tickets are $35 and must be purchased in advance. Organizers expect large crowds and encourage early ticket reservations.
The event will also mark the first beatification ceremony ever held in the St. Louis. The Dome at America’s Center previously hosted Mass celebrated by Pope John Paul II during his January 1999 visit to the city.
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Born in El Paso, Illinois, in May 1895, Sheen was the oldest of four children. He was ordained as a priest in the Diocese of Peoria in 1919. In 1913, Sheen earned his doctorate in Philosophy from The Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium.
Sheen returned to the United States and taught philosophy and theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. from 1927 until 1950…