Michael S. Rose who likes the NBC series Heroes, as I do, talks about it and then goes on to talk about the mystical phenomenon evidenced by various saints. Interesting comparison and I would like to see a series called Heroic Sanctity.
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My first modern nomination would be Father Vincent Robert Capodanno. The Grunt Padre http://www.vincentcapodanno.org/
A hero and a saintly man.
For profiles in heroic sanctity manifested by sheer physical courage, I’d like to nominate:
1. St. Thomas More, who, when the rubber met the road, preferred the block to apostacy.
2. Bl. Margaret of Castello, blind, hunchbacked and a dwarf, who, after spending most of her life in prison, was forced to live on the streets when her parents abandoned her in a strange town, and who, after joining the Dominican order, would visit prisons and minister to hardened criminals.
3. Soon-to-be-Venerable Pius XII, who faced down hostile communist mobs while he was papal nuncio to the kingdom of Bavaria, and who refused to leave Rome even during the Nazi occupation in World War II.
4. Servant of God Fr. Vincent Capodanno, the Grunt Padre, who was postumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War.
By the way: from World War II through Vietnam, four military chaplains have been awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, and every single one has been a Catholic priest.
Anita-I was just on your blog and read the accounts of the four Catholic chaplains who won the Medal of Honor. (I felt sad reading about the one who renounced his priesthood and became antiwar).
My late father was on the USS Santa Fe, which took part in the rescue operation of the Franklin. I have read the autobiography of Fr. O’Callaghan, the chaplain on the Franklin.
In the Catholic bookstore I used to work at, we had the book ‘The Grunt Padre’, the life of Fr. Capodanno.