{"id":304306,"date":"2026-10-11T08:10:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304306\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T08:10:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:10:21","slug":"photos-anniversary-mass-honors-the-legacy-of-maria-middleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/304306\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Anniversary Mass Honors the Legacy of Maria Middleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted October 8, 2026 <\/p>\n<p>See scenes from the Oct. 5 Anniversary Mass at the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa honoring the life and legacy of Bucks County teenager Maria Middleton who died Oct. 8, 2020 at age 18 from complications of an inoperable brain tumor. Archbishop Nelson P\u00e9rez celebrated the Mass, joined by Maria\u2019s parents and family, friends, classmates, and supporters gathered in prayer and remembrance.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this summer, Archbishop P\u00e9rez was formally presented with a petition seeking to open a cause for canonization for Maria in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. Read our coverage of that meeting here: <a href=\"https:\/\/catholicphilly.com\/2026\/06\/news\/local-news\/archbishop-perez-receives-first-documents-tracing-maria-middletons-path-to-holiness\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Archbishop P\u00e9rez Receives First Documents Tracing Maria Middleton\u2019s Path to Holiness.<\/a> (Photos by Sarah Webb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By CatholicPhilly Staff \u2022 Posted October 8, 2026 See scenes from the Oct. 5 Anniversary Mass at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[125047,822,99161,69,71,70,125048,125049,125050],"class_list":["post-304306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-anniversary-mass","tag-archbishop-nelson-perez","tag-maria-middleton","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shrine-of-our-lady-of-czestochowa","tag-think-hope","tag-think-hope-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}