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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Bl Cyrian Tansi
DESCRIPTION:A Reading on BLESSED CYPRIAN TANSI \nBlessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi\, the first blessed of Nigeria\, was born in 1903 in Igboezunu…At the age of nine\, he was baptized and was given the name of Michael. He felt the call of God to the priestly life\, and in 1925\, at the age of 22\, resolutely overcoming the opposition of family members\, entered the newly established St. Paul Seminary in Igbariam\, becoming the first indigenous vocation of the area. On December 19\, 1937\, he was ordained a priest by the missionary Bishop Charles Heerey\, in the Cathedral of Onitsha. \nMichael demonstrated his exceptional gifts throughout the first twelve years of his priesthood… personal asceticism\, great capacity for commitment and physical resistance\, goodness towards the sick and the poor\, concern for the sanctity of marriage and the spiritual formation of women\, as well as personal charisma… \nAmid the whirlwind of pastoral activities\, he perceived the beauty of the contemplative life. During a retreat day with the clergy\, Archbishop Charles Heerey expressed the wish that a few of his priests embrace a monastic experience\, in order to bring the seed of contemplative life into the diocese. Father Tansi\, without hesitating\,declared himself ready to put his bishop’s proposal into action\, along with the assistant priest at his parish\, Fr. Clement Ulogu. In July 1949\, contacts were made with the Cistercian Abbey of Mount Saint Bernard in Leicester\, England\, which agreed to welcome the two priests. Michael arrived at Mount Saint Bernard on July 3\, 1950\, accompanied by Archbishop Heerey. \nUnder the action of the Spirit\, the man who had been an authentic pioneer and “manager” in the young missionary church of the diocese of Onitsha made himself a humble and docile monk in his new way of life. He embraced the austerity and silence of everyday Trappist life\, where no one except the novice master\, Fr. Gregory Wareing\, had any idea of the magnificent work he had done as a priest… \n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe original idea with which the two Nigerians had entered the community was to receive formation in monastic life\, with the aim of then bringing it to Nigeria\, but the difficulty of making a foundation with only two people soon became clear. Eventually they freely asked to be admitted to profession at Mount Saint Bernard and to wait until the community was able to send a group. In 1963\, the monastic community decided to establish a foundation in Africa\, but in Cameroon rather than Nigeria… \nWhen the group for the foundation in Cameroon was appointed\, Fr. [Tansi] was chosen as the novice master… The first four founders left Mount Saint Bernard on October 28\, 1963\, to prepare the buildings for the rest of the group’s arrival\, scheduled for the spring of the following year. But God’s plan for Fr. [Tansi] was different\, and it was made manifest in a very short time. \nIn January 1964\, he was struck with acute pain in one of his legs\, which swelled enormously…Urgently admitted to the Royal Infirmary in Leicester\, he was diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm. During the night he got worse\, and on the morning of January 20\, 1964\, in a spirit of total poverty and detachment\, Fr. Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi took the last step of his long journey of faith and love in silence. \nOn January 22\, 1986\, twenty-two years after his death\, with great solemnity before a gathering of faithful from all parts of Nigeria\, the process of his canonization was opened in the Cathedral of Onitsha. By that time\, a few monastic communities of contemplative life had already begun to flourish in the area. The remains of Fr. Michael were exhumed in 1988 and returned to Onitsha. During the reburial Mass\, a miracle occurred when the bishop allowed seventeen-year-old Philomina Emeka\, who had been suffering from inoperable tumors\, to approach and touch Fr. Michael’s coffin\, and she was immediately healed. The miracle led to his beatification celebrated by Pope St. John Paul II on March 22\, 1998 \n\n\n\nBaptized and Sent: October 2019. Diocese of St. Louis.https://www.archstl.org/Portals/0/Documents/Mission_Office/EMM%20Mission%20Testimonies/11)%20 Bl.%20Cyprian%20Michael%20Iwene%20Tansi.pdf?ver=2019-04-11-155650-950. Accessed Jan. 12\, 2023. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n 
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