Noun
Claretian (plural Claretians)
A member of the Congregation of Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of the Blessed Virgin Mary, a Catholic clerical religious congregation of Pontifical Right for men headquartered in Rome, founded in 1849 by Fr. Antonio María Claret y Clará, C.M.F.
Robert Ellsberg, publisher of Orbis Books, a ministry of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, said the Claretian Fathers, through their magazines U.S. Catholic and Salt, began hailing Day as a saint shortly after her death in 1980. Source: Internet