Pope approves decrees for
one new saint, five new Blesseds; and
advances sainthood causes for 10 others
Translated from
March 27, 2010
In a private audience today with Mons. Angelo Amato, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, the Holy Father authorized the promulgation of decrees that will create one new saint and advance the causes for sainthood of 16 others.
The decrees will concern:
1) Miracles attributed to the intercession of
- Blessed Bonifacia Rodriguez De Castro, Founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Servants of St. Joseph; born in Salamanca, Spain on June 6, 1837 and died in Zamora on August 8, 1905.
and the following Venerable Servants of God:
- Juan De Palafox y Mendoza, first bishop of Puebla de los Angeles (Spain), then Bishop of Osma; born in Fitero on June 24, 1600, and died in Osma Oct. 1, 1659.
- Maria Barbara of the Most Holy Trinity, Founder of the Congregation of Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary; born Barbara Maix in Vienna on June 27, 1818, died in Catumbi, Brazil, on March 17, 1873.
- Anna Maria Adorni, Founder of the Congregation of the Handmaids of Mary Immaculate and the Good Shepherd Institute of Parma; born in Fivizzano on June 19, 1805, and died in Parma on Feb. 7, 1893).
- Maria de la Immaculada Concepcion, Superior General of the Congregation of Sisters of the Cross; born Maria Isabella Salvat y Romero in Madrid on February 20, 1926, and died in Seville on Oct. 31, 1998.
- Stephen (born Giuseppe Nehmé), professed religious of the Lebanese Order of Maronites; born in Lehfed, Lebanon, in March 1889 and died in Kfifane on August 30, 1938.
2) The martyrdom of the following Servants of God:
- Szilárd Bogdánffy, Bishop of Oradea Mare of the Latins; born in Feketetó, Romania, on Feb. 21, 1911, and died in prison in Nagyenyed (Romania) on Oct. 2, 1953.
- Gerard Hirschfelder, diocesan priest; born in Glatz, Germany on Feb. 17, 1905, and died in the Dachau concentration camp on August 1, 1942.
- Luigi Grozde, lay member of the Catholic Action; born in Gorenje Vodale, Slovenia, on May 27, 1923, and killed, out of hatred of the faith, on January 1, 1943.
3) The heroic virtues of the following Servants of God:
- Francesco Antonio Marcucci, Archbishop of Montalto, Italy; born in Force on Nov, 27, 1717, and died in Montalto on July 12, 1798.
- John Francis Gnidovec, Bishop of Skopje-Prizren (Slovenia); born in Veliki Lipovec on Sept. 29, 1873, and died in Ljubljana on Feb. 3, 1939.
- Luigi Novarese, diocesan priest and Founder of the Silent Workers of the Cross; born in Casale Monferrato, Italy, on July 29, 1914, and died in Rocca Priora on July 20, 1984.
- Henriette Delille, Founder of the Congregation of Sisters of the Holy Family; born in New Orleans 1812 or 1813, and died there on Nov. 17, 1962.
- Maria Theresia, Founder of the Institute of Poor Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Third Order of St Francis; born Regine Cristina Wilhelmine Bonzel in Olpe, Germany, on Sept.17, 1830, and died there on February 6, 1905.
- Maria Franziska of the Cross, Founder of the Institute of the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother; born Amalia Franziska Rosa Streitel
in Mellrichstadt, Germany, and died in Castel Sant'Elia, Italy, on March 6, 1911.
- Maria Felicia de Jesus Sacramentado, professed sister of the Discalced Carmelites; born Maria Felicia Guggiari Echeverría in
Villarrica del Espíritu Santo, Paraguay on January 12, 1925, and died in Asuncion on April 28, 1959.
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