Catholics from the Peoria, Illinois, area prepare for a long-awaited service of beatification of the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen. The popular TV priest will be formally designated “Blessed Fulton Sheen,” on Sept. 24 in St. Louis. (AP Video: Jessie Wardarski)
\n\nNuns pray at the tomb of Archbishop Fulton Sheen at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria, Ill., on July 15, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
\n\nBonnie Engstrom, who believes the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen helped save her son’s life after he was born in 2010 without a pulse, looks at a photo of Sheen on display at the Sheen Museum in Peoria, Ill., on July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
\n\nThis combination of photos provided by Bonnie L. Engstrom shows her son, James Fulton Engstrom, in the NICU at OSF St. Francis Hospital in Peoria, Ill., in October 2010, left, and in January 2026. (Bonnie L. Engstrom via AP)
\n\nArtifacts and memorabilia depicting the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen are displayed in the Sheen Museum on July 15, 2026, in Peoria, Ill. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
\n\nBonnie Engstrom talks with two sisters at the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Museum in Peoria, Ill., on July 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)
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