As Bishop Richard F. Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, presided at a memorial Mass and reentombment of the body of Father Patrick Ryan at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul, a possible miracle attributable to the Chattanooga priest may already be in
At 10:50 on the morning of July 27, Father J. David Carter's voice rang out at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Chattanooga: "We are about to lift the coffin from the grave."
And with that, the sainthood cause of Father Patrick Ryan, who has
The sainthood cause of Father Patrick Ryan, who died ministering to people during a yellow fever outbreak in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the 1800s, has taken an important step forward.
On Sept. 28, at the Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul in Chattanooga, where