Today, during a private audience with Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B., prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Pope authorised the Congregation to promulgate the following decrees:<\/p>\n
MIRACLES<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Servant of God Luca Passi, Italian diocesan priest and founder of the Congregation of the Teaching Sisters of St. Dorothy (1789-1866).
\n\u2013 Servant of God Francesca de Paula de Jesus, known as Nha Chica, Brazilian laywoman (1808-1895).<\/p>\nMARTYRDOM<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Servants of God Manuel Borras Ferre, auxiliary bishop of Tarragona, Spain, Agapito Modesto (ne Modesto Pamplona Falguera) of the Institute of Brothers of Christian Schools, and 145 companions, killed in hatred of the faith in Spain between 1936 and 1939.
\n\u2013 Servant of God Giuseppe Puglisi, Italian diocesan priest (1937-1993), killed in hatred of the faith in Palermo, Italy in 1993.
\n\u2013 Servants of God Ermenegildo of the Assumption (ne Ermenegildo Iza y Aregita) and five companions of the Order of the Blessed Trinity, killed in hatred of the faith in Spain in 1936.
\n\u2013 Servant of God Victoria de Jesus (nee Francesca Valverde Gonzalez), Spanish religious of the \u201cInstituto Calasancio de Hijas de la Divina Pastora\u201d (1888-1937), killed in hatred of the faith in Spain in 1937.
\n\u2013 Servant of God Devasahayam (Lazarus) Pillai, Indian layman (1712-1752), killed in hatred of the faith in India in 1752.<\/p>\nHEROIC VIRTUES<\/strong>
\n\u2013 Servant of God Sisto Riario Sforza, Italian archbishop of Naples and cardinal of Holy Roman Church (1810-1877).
\n\u2013 Servant of God Fulton Sheen, American archbishop, and former bishop of Rochester (1895-1979).
\n\u2013 Servant of God Alvaro del Portillo y Diez de Sollano, Spanish prelate of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei (1914-1994).
\n\u2013 Servant of God Ludwig Tijssen, Dutch diocesan priest (1865-1929).
\n\u2013 Servant of God Cristobal of St. Catherine (ne: Cristobal Fernando Valladolid), Spanish priest and founder of the Congregation and the Hospital of Jesus of Nazareth in Cordoba (1638-1690).
\n\u2013 Servant of God Marie of the Sacred Heart (nee Marie Josephte Fitzbach), Canadian widow and founder of the Handmaidens of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, known as the Good Shepherd Sisters of Quebec (1806-1885).
\n\u2013 Servant of God Mary Angeline Teresa (nee Bridget Teresa McCrory), founder of the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm (1893-1984).
\n\u2013 Servant of God Maria Margit (nee Adelaide Bogner), Hungarian professed nun of the Order of the Visitation (1905-1933).
\n\u2013 Servant of God Ferdinanda Riva, Italian professed sister of the Institute of Daughters of Charity (1920-1956).<\/p>\nOn 10 May the Holy Father authorised the Congregation to promulgate the decree concerning the martyrdom of Servant of God Juan Huguet y Cardona, Spanish diocesan priest (1913-1936), killed in hatred of the faith in Spain in 1936.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From the AP: Pope Benedict XVI has put Fulton John Sheen, the U.S. bishop whose radio and TV shows denouncing Communism and liberal psychology had a big following, on the path to sainthood. The Vatican said Thursday the pope formally recognized the `\u2019heroic virtues\u201d of Sheen, a former Rochester bishop who died in New York […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,29,42,51],"tags":[370],"class_list":["post-14725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hanging-with-the-saints","category-media","category-priests","category-tv","tag-fulton-sheen"],"yoast_head":"\n
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