From The Augustinian magazine: Fr. Bill Atkinson, O.S.A., Reinterred in St. Thomas of Villanova Church
Story by Sarah Reisert for the fall 2024 issue of The Augustinian magazine. Read the full issue of the magazine and see more photos for this article here. Early in the morning on Monday, June 10, 2024, a small group of people gathered at the Augustinian plot in Calvary Cemetery in West Conshohocken, Pa. Their […]
Future Saint Father Bill Atkinson Reinterred in St. Thomas of Villanova Church | From the Desk of Fr. Rob
June 26, 2024 Dear Friends in Christ, Our Augustinian brother, and Servant of God, Fr. Bill Atkinson, O.S.A. has returned home. On June 14, in a private ceremony, Fr. Bill’s remains were translated and reinterred to the church of St. Thomas of Villanova on the campus of Villanova University. He was laid to rest forever […]
Father Bill Atkinson canonization cause completes first phase, moves onto Rome.
“There’s something very ordinary about Father Bill in terms of how he did his work,” Father Michael said. “The extraordinary part was that he did his work, his ministry, exercised his priesthood in the context of great limitation—a physical limitation, but certainly not any limitation in terms of his mental ability or his will and […]
Photos: Documents in Father Atkinson’s cause presented in ceremony
From CatholicPhilly.com: Archbishop Nelson Perez and officials working on the cause for sainthood of Father Bill Atkinson, the Augustinian who was the first quadriplegic priest in the world to be ordained, affixed signatures and seals for more than 3,000 pages of documentation on the late priest to the Vatican for further review. (Photos by Sarah […]
Diocesan Cause for Father Bill Atkinson, O.S.A., Servant of God, Opened at Saint Thomas of Villanova
The Diocesan Cause for the beatification and canonization of Augustinian Servant of God, Father Bill Atkinson, O.S.A., was officially opened the evening of April 24, 2017. Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia presided at the Mass, which preceded the official opening. After a prayer, the Archbishop then affirmed his oath with his hand on […]
The Solemn Opening of the diocesan process of The Cause of Beatification and Canonization
The Order of Saint Augustine and the Province of Saint Thomas of Villanova are happy to announce The Solemn Opening of the diocesan process of The Cause of Beatification and Canonization of our confrere THE SERVANT OF GOD WILLIAM ATKINSON, O.S.A. to be held Monday, April 24, 2017 Feast of the Conversion of Saint Augustine […]