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Brother Armin Luistro, FSC, Superior General of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, presented Pope Leo XIV with a first-class relic of Blessed James Miller on May 15, during an audience with Christian Brothers and more than 130 Lasallian Partners. 

Philly Factor, a television program produced by La Salle University in Philadelphia, aired a May 5 episode on the life, work and significance of Blessed James Miller, FSC, and on the Brother James Miller Guild.

Catholic Forum, a podcast from the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware, published an episode March 12 on the life and heroic death of Blessed James Miller, FSC.

It was humbling and inspiring for me to travel to Custer, Wisconsin, for the feast of Blessed James Miller, Feb. 13, and join a community who has a special devotion to him. His lived experience and example speak to my life personally, professionally and spiritually. As with all the saints, we are invited to look to their lives in ways that resonate with our own.

“Connecting the Diocese,” a radio show from the Diocese of La Crosse, Wisconsin, aired a Feb. 15 episode on “hometown martyr” Blessed James Miller.

OSV News published a nationally-syndicated column by Effie Caldarola on Blessed James Miller, FSC, ahead of his feast day on Feb. 13.

In a reflection for Catholic Schools Week, Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda, archbishop of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, wrote about “the great witness” of Blessed James Miller, who once taught in the archdiocese at then-Cretin High School.

Brother Armin Luistro, FSC, Superior General of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, highlighted Blessed James Miller, FSC, in his December 2024 pastoral letter.  

Christian Brothers Conference has established the Brother James Miller Guild to actively promote the cause for canonization of Blessed James Miller, FSC. Launched on the fifth anniversary of his beatification, a newly designed website, brotherjamesmiller.org, will promote awareness of Brother James’ story and support guild activities.

On Monday, June 10, the National Eucharistic Pilgrimage stopped at St. Martin Church Cemetery in Custer, Wisconsin — population: 2,532. This seemingly unremarkable rural churchyard has hundreds of graves dating back to the mid-19th century, when St. Martin’s was the German parish and nearby St. Joseph’s was the Polish parish.