{"id":3500,"date":"2016-09-11T12:24:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T17:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/icath\/?p=3500"},"modified":"2023-07-31T19:27:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T00:27:01","slug":"death-of-brute-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/?p=3500","title":{"rendered":"Death of Brute (In the News)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   We are a few days away from the 11th anniversary of the beginning of the Cause of Simon Gabriel Brute, first Bishop of Vincennes.  Preparing for that anniversary, one needs to realize that a &#8220;Cause&#8221; isn&#8217;t just started.  There has to be some sort of &#8220;atmosphere&#8221; surrounding a holy person&#8211;something that gives rise to the belief that this guy really was holy and perhaps we need to look at his life.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned on numerous occasions how there were some &#8220;urban legends&#8221; about Bishop Brute, such as the story that when he walked in the rain, the raindrops never touched him.  Obviously this is a story that had some sort of origin from someone who saw the Bishop as being &#8220;<em>holy<\/em>&#8221; and it was perhaps the best way for that person to describe the holiness that they felt emanating from the Bishop.<\/p>\n<p>Other things, such as writings from Bishop Brut\u00e9s time indicate that people saw something in him that was holy.  Many many writings always talked about the &#8220;<em>Saintly<\/em>&#8221; Bishop Brute, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here is Bishop Brut\u00e9s obituary, of sorts, taken from the <em>&#8220;Catholic Advocate&#8221;<\/em>, a Catholic newspaper published by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Benjamin_Joseph_Webb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Benjamin J. Webb<\/a> in Bardstown Kentucky, the forerunner of the Archdiocese of Louisville.  He wrote &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/The_Centenary_of_Catholicity_in_Kentucky.pdf\">Centenary of Catholicity in Kentucky<\/a>&#8221; in 1884.<\/p>\n<p>Here is an image of the story:<\/p>\n<p>Continue to pray the Canonization prayer for Bishop Brute.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Pages-from-Catholic-Advocate-1839.jpg\" alt=\"pages-from-catholic-advocate-1839\" width=\"557\" height=\"2340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3503\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a few days away from the 11th anniversary of the beginning of the Cause of Simon Gabriel Brute, first Bishop of Vincennes. Preparing for that anniversary, one needs to realize that a &#8220;Cause&#8221; isn&#8217;t just started. There has to be some sort of &#8220;atmosphere&#8221; surrounding a holy person&#8211;something that gives rise to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3500"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5697,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3500\/revisions\/5697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianacatholic.mwweb.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}