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VATICAN CITY - Today, 01 July
2010, Pope Benedict XVI received Archbishop Angelo Amato,
sdb, prefect of
the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints, in a private
audience. During that audience, the Holy Father authorized the
Congregation to promulgate the following sixteen decrees
regarding:
- a miracle, attributed to the intercession of Blessed
LUIGI GUANELLA, priest of the diocese of Como; founder of
the Congregation of the Servants of Charity (Guanellians) and of
the Institute of the Daughters of Saint Mary of Providence; born
on 19 December 1842 in Fraciscio di Campodolcino, Sondrio
(Italy) and died on 24 October 1915 in Como (Italy); beatified
on 25 October 1964;
- a miracle, attributed to the intercession of the
Venerable GIUSTINO MARIA RUSSOLILLO, priest of the
diocese of Pozzuoli; founder of the Society of Divine
Vocations (Vocationists); born on 18 January 1891 in Pianura,
Naples (Italy) and died there on 02 August 1955; declared
venerable on 18 December 1997;
- a miracle, attributed to the intercession of the
Venerable CLOTILDE MICHELI (in religion:
MARIA SERAFINA OF THE SACRED HEART), founder of the
Institute of the Sisters of the Angels; born on 11 September
1849 in Imér, Trent (Italy) and died on 24 March 1911 in
Faicchio, Benevento (Italy); declared venerable on 03 July 2009;
- a miracle, attributed to the intercession of the
Venerable ALFONSA CLERICI, professed religious of
the Congregation of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of
Monza; born on14 February 1860 in Lainate, Milan (Italy) and
died on 14 January 1930 in Vercelli (Italy); declared
venerable on 22 June 2004;
- a miracle, attributed to
the intercession of the Venerable CECILIA EUSEPI,
layperson of the diocese of Nepi-Sutri; member of the Secular
Servites; born on 17 February 1910 in Monteromano, Viterbo
(Italy) and died on 01 October 1928 in Nepi, Viterbo (Italy);
declared venerable on 01 June 1987;
- the martyrdom
of the Servant of God JÁNOS SCHEFFLER, bishop of Satu
Mare; born on 29 October 1887 in Cămin (a.k.a. Kálmánd), Satu
Mare (Romania) and killed in odium fidei on 06 December
1952 in Bucharest (Romania);
- the
martyrdom of the Servants of God JOSÉ MARÍA RUIZ CANO,
professed priest; born on 13 September 1906 in Jerez de
los Caballeros, Badajoz (Spain) and killed in odium fidei
on 27 July 1936 in El Otero, Sigüenza (Spain); JESÚS ANÍBAL
GÓMEZ y GÓMEZ, professed cleric; born on 13 June 1914 in Tarso, Antioquia
(Colombia); TOMÁS CORDERO y CORDERO, professed cleric;
born on 08 June 1910 in Robledino de Valduerna, León (Spain);
both killed in odium fidei on 28 July 1936 in Fernán
Caballero, Ciudad Real (Spain); and
13
COMPANIONS
from the Congregation of the Missionary
Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (Claretians), clerics and religious, who were killed
in odium fidei in 1936 during the religious persecution in
the Spanish Civil War;
- the
martyrdom of the Servants of God CRISPULO MOYANO
LINARES
(in religion:
CARMELO MARÍA),
professed priest; born on 10 June 1891 in Villaralto, Córdoba
(Spain), and killed
in odium fidei on 23 September 1936 in Hinojosa del Duque,
Córdoba (Spain); and
9 COMPANIONS
from the Order of the Brothers of the
Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Carmelites of the Ancient
Observance), priests and religious, who were killed
in odium fidei in 1936 during the religious persecution in
the Spanish Civil War;
- the
martyrdom of the Servants of God JOHANNES PRASSEK,
diocesan priest; born on 13 August 1911 in Barmbek, Hamburg
(Germany), and
2
COMPANIONS
from the clergy of the diocese of
Osnabrück (now within the diocese of Hamburg), killed
in odium fidei on 10 November 1943 in Hamburg (Germany);
- the martyrdom
of the Servant of God MARGUERITE RUTAN, professed
religious of the Congregation of the Daughters of Charity of
Saint Vincent de Paul; born on 23 April 1736 in Metz, Moselle
(France) and killed in odium fidei on 09 April 1794
in Dax, Landes (France);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God BASILIO MARTINELLI, professed
priest of the Congregation of the Schools of Charity, Cavanis
Institute; born on 27 December 1872 in Calceranica, Trent
(Italy) and died on 16 March 1962 in Possagno, Treviso (Italy);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God MARÍA ANTONIA DE PAZ FIGUEROA (in
religion: MARIA ANTONIA OF SAINT JOSEPH), founder
of the Beaterio of the Spiritual Exercise of Buenos
Aires (now the Congregation of the Daughters of the Divine
Savior); born in 1730 in Silípica, Santiago del Estero
(Argentina) and died on 06 March 1799 in Buenos Aires
(Argentina);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God KASIMIRA KAUPAS (in religion:
MARIA), founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Saint
Casimir; born on 06 January 1880 in Ramygala, Panevėžys
(Lithuania) and died there on 17 April 1940 in Chicago, Illinois
(United States);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God GERTRUDE PROSPERI (in religion:
MARIA LUISA), professed religious of the Order Saint
Benedict; born on 19 August 1799 in Fogliano di Cascia, Perugia
(Italy) and died on 12 September 1847 in
Trevi, Perugia (Italy);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God MARÍA DEL CARMEN ALBARRACÍN PASCUAL
(in religion: MARÍA TERESA), professed religious of the
Religious of Mary Immaculate, Claretian Missionary Sisters; born
on 01 May 1927 in Puerto de Mazarrón, Murcia (Spain) and
died on 12 March 1946 in Barcelona (Spain); and,
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God LUCIA CAVALLO (in religion:
MARIA PLAUTILLA), professed religious of the Little
Missionary Sisters of Charity; born on 18 November 1913 in Roata
Chiusani Centallo, Cuneo (Italy) and died on 05 October 1947 in
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