The Diocese of Peoria announced Monday that Venerable Fulton Sheen will be beatified Dec. 21 at the city’s Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception.

Sheen had been ordained a priest of the diocese in that cathedral Sept. 20, 1919. “It seems entirely fitting that the Beatification will take place at the end of this 100-year anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood,” the Peoria diocese stated Nov. 18. Sheen was born in Illinois in 1895, and was 24 when he was ordained a priest.

He catechised the American faithful via TV in the 1950s and 60s. He was also renound for his sense of humour, as we can see here...