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~ 1890 ~

   

1) 02 January in Lachine, Québec (Canada)

   

ESTHER BLONDIN

(MARIE-ANNE)

founder, Sisters of Saint Anne

born: 18 April 1809 in Terrebonne, Québec (Canada)

  

competent forum: Montréal

CCS protocol number: 921

type of cause: heroic virtues

  

opening of informative process: 1955

closing of informative process: 1959

decree on writings: 05 January 1965

introduction of cause: 07 January 1977

publication of Positio: 1986

session of historical consultors: 15 November 1988

particular congress of theological consultors: 25 September 1990

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 16 April 1991

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 14 May 1991

    opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

    closing of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

    decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle: 21 February 1997

    meeting of the Medical Board: 22 October 1998

    particular congress of theological consultors: 05 March 1999

    ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 25 June 1999

    promulgation of decree on miracle: 28 June 1999

beatification: 29 April 2001

  

postulator: Rev. Cleber Lópes Pombal, omi

petitioner: Sœurs de Sainte-Anne, 1950 Provost St., Lachine (Qué.) H8S 1P7, CANADA

website: www.ssacong.org

  

  

2) 05 January in Genoa (Italy)

  

MARIA REPETTO

professed religious, Sisters of Our Lady of Refuge in Mount Calvary

born: 01 November 1807 in Voltaggio, Alessandria (Italy)

  

competent forum: Genoa

CCS protocol number: 162

type of cause: heroic virtues

  

      

opening of informative process: 1927

closing of informative process: 1933

decree on writings: 18 November 1941

introduction of cause: 11 March 1949

decree « non cultu »: 12 December 1950

opening of apostolic process:

closing of apostolic process:

decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 19 January 1958

antepreparatory congregation: 28 February 1961

preparatory congregation: 08 March 1966

general congregation: 22 May 1967

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 04 July 1968

    opening of cognitional process on miracle for beatification: 1951

    closing of cognitional process on miracle for beatification: 1953

    decree on validity of cognitional process on miracle: 17 January 1958

    meeting of the Medical Board: 25 September 1968

    congress of CCS officials and consultors: 08 January 1980

    plenary session of cardinals and bishops: 16 December 1980

    papal confirmation of plenary session sentence: 05 February 1981

    promulgation of decree on miracle: 30 March 1981

beatification: 04 October 1981

   

postulator:

petitioner: [see 1651: Virginia Centurione Bracelli]

websitewww.santavirginia.it

   

   

3) 16 January in Gijón, Asturias (Spain)

   

LOUIS-ANTOINE-ROSE ORMIÈRES LACASE

priest of the diocese of Carcassone;

founder, Sisters of the Guardian Angel

born: 14 July 1809 in Quillan, Aude (France)

   

competent forum: Oviedo

CCS protocol number: 814

type of cause: heroic virtues

      

opening of diocesan inquiry: 25 March 1954

closing of diocesan inquiry: 10 September 1955

decree on writings: 12 July 1973

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 16 June 1989

publication of Positio: 1990

session of historical consultors: 21 May 1991

particular congress of theological consultors:  11 June 1996

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 07 January 1997

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 08 March 1997

    opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 12 September 2012

    closing of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 02 October 2013

    decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle: 21 February 2014

    meeting of the Medical Board: 14 January 2016

    particular congress of theological consultors: 22 March 2016

    ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 05 July 2016

    promulgation of decree on miracle: 08 July 2016

beatification: 22 April 2017

   

postulator: Sr. María del Carmen Trejo Delgado

petitioner: Hermanas del Santo Ángel de la Guarda, Ave. del Valle, 42, 28003 Madrid, SPAIN

                     [1923: Marie-Adeline Couderc Caminade (María Serafina)]

website: www.hnassantoangel.com

  

    

4) 25 January in Béziers, Hérault  (France)

   

JEAN GAILHAC

priest of the diocese of Montpellier;

founder, Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary

born: 13 November 1802 in Béziers, Hérault (France)

   

competent forum: Montpellier

CCS protocol number: 648

type of cause: heroic virtues

   

opening of informative process: 1949

closing of informative process: 1951

decree on writings: 14 November 1952; 22 May 1953; 13 May 1956

introduction of cause: 26 July 1953

decree « non cultu »:

opening of apostolic process:

closing of apostolic process:

decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 27 July 1956

congress of CCS officials and consultors: 26 October 1971

plenary session of cardinals and bishops: 18 January 1972

papal confirmation of plenary session sentence: 04 May 1972

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 22 June 1972

   

postulator:

petitioner: Religiose del Sacro Cuore di Maria, Via Adelaide Ristori, 26,  00197 Roma, ITALY

                     Religieuses du Sacré Cœur de Marie, 21 Rue Ermengaud, 34500 Béziers, FRANCE

website: www.rscm-gen.org

 

  

5) 27 January in Cesena, Forlì (Italy)

  

ANNA LEGA

(MARIA TERESA OF THE EXALTATION OF THE CROSS)

founder, Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Family, Lega Institute (n.o.)

born: 13 January 1812 in Brisighella, Ravenna (Italy)

    

competent forum: Cesena-Sarsina/Faenza-Modigliana

CCS protocol number: 111

type of cause: heroic virtues

    

opening of diocesan inquiry:

closing of diocesan inquiry:

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 20 April 1990

publication of Positio: 1990

particular congress of theological consultors: 19 December 1995

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 26 March 1996

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 25 June 1996

   

postulator: Fra Giovangiuseppe Califano, ofm

petitioner: Suore Francescane della Sacra Famiglia, Istituto Lega,

                          Viale Padre Vicinio da Sarsina, 176, 47023 Cesena (FO), ITALY

website: www.suoresacrafamiglia.it

  

  

6) 03 February in Rome (Italy)

   

PIETRO ROTA

bishop of Mantova

born: 30 January 1805 in Correggio, Reggio Emilia (Italy)

   

competent forum: Rome/Reggio Emilia-Guastalla

CCS protocol number: 519

type of cause: heroic virtues

 

       

opening of informative process:

closing of informative process:

opening of acts of informative process: 08 May 1943

decree on validity of informative process:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops:

    

postulator:

petitioner: Diocesi di Mantova, P.za Sordello, 15, 46100 Mantova, ITALY

website:

   

   

7) 03 March in Bergamo (Italy)

  

GIOVANNI SCALVINONI

(INNOCENZO FROM BERZO)

professed priest, Capuchin Franciscans

born: 19 March 1844 in Niardo, Brescia (Italy)

   

competent forum: Bergamo

CCS protocol number: 39

type of cause: heroic virtues

    

opening of informative process: 1909

closing of informative process: 1914

decree on writings: 08 August 1917

introduction of cause: 22 January 1919

opening of apostolic process: 1919

decree « non cultu »: 14 December 1921

closing of apostolic process: 1923

decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 04 May 1931

antepreparatory congregation: 04 June 1940

preparatory congregation: 24 February 1941

general congregation: 23 February 1943

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 21 March 1943

    opening of apostolic process on 1° miracle for beatification: 

    closing of apostolic process on 1° miracle for beatification: 

    opening of apostolic process on 2° miracle for beatification: 

    closing of apostolic process on 2° miracle for beatification: 

    decree on validity of apostolic processes on miracles: 23 November 1956

    antepreparatory congregation on miracles:

    preparatory congregation on miracles: 06 December 1960

    general congregation on miracles: 07 June 1961

    promulgation of decree on miracles: 25 June 1961

beatification: 12 November 1961

   

postulator: Fra Carlo Calloni, ofmcap   

petitioner: Vicepostulazione, Santuario Ss. Annunciata, 25052 Cogno (BS), ITALY

                      [see also 1984: Antonio Pietro Cortinovis (Cecilio Maria from Costa Serina)]

website: www.intercam.it/valcam/assoc/beato/beato.htm

   

      

8) 02 May in Naples (Italy)

   

MARIA ROSA CARAFA

professed religious, Handmaids of the Sacred Heart (n.o.)

born: 06 April 1832 in Naples (Italy)

    

competent forum: Naples

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

     

        

opening of informative process:

closing of informative process:

decree on writings:

introduction of cause: 28 August 1907

decree « non cultu »:

opening of apostolic process:

closing of apostolic process:

decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops:

   

postulator:

petitioner: [see 1894: Caterina Volpicelli]

website: www.santacaterinavolpicelli.it

   

  

9) 12 May in Lubaga, Kampala (Uganda)

   

SIMÉON LOURDEL [MAPEERA]

priest of  the Missionaries of Africa (White Fathers)

born: 20 December 1853 in Dury, Pas-de-Calais (France)

   

competent forum: Kampala

CCS protocol number: 1587

type of cause: heroic virtues

    

       

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 13 January 1988

opening of diocesan inquiry: 06 November 2016

closing of diocesan inquiry: 08 September 2018

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

session of historical consultors:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops:

   

postulator: Dr. Waldery Hilgeman

petitioner: Archdiocese of Kampala, P.O. Box 14125, Mengo-Kampala, UGANDA

                    [1895: Amans Delmas] 

information: Mapeera-Nabulagala Parish, P. O. Box 28712, Kampala, UGANDA

website: mapeeraandamans.org

    

    

10) 11 August in Edgbaston, Birmingham, West Midlands, England (United Kingdom)

   

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

priest, Oratorians (Birmingham Congregation);

cardinal

born: 21 February 1801 in London, England (United Kingdom)

   

competent forum: Birmingham

CCS protocol number: 1238

type of cause: heroic virtues

                          

opening of informative process: 17 June 1958

opening of diocesan inquiry: 27 September 1984

closing of diocesan inquiry: 19 June 1986

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 20 February 1989

publication of Positio: 1989

session of historical consultors: 12 December 1989

particular congress of theological consultors: 20 April 1990

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 08 January 1991

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 22 January 1991

    competent forum for inquiry on miracle for canonization: Boston

    opening of informative process on miracle for beatification: 25 June 2005

    closing of informative process on miracle for beatification: 09 September 2006

    decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle: 02 June 2007

    meeting of the Medical Board: 24 April 2008

    particular congress of theological consultors: 20 December 2008

    ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 02 June 2009

    promulgation of decree on miracle: 03 July 2009

the rapid, complete, and lasting healing of John Arthur Sullivan, a sixty-one-year-old father of three and permanent diaconate student, from a large L3/L4 disc herniation with severe spinal stenosis, previously surgically treated with hernia removal, wide decompressive laminectomy and iatrogenic cerebrospinal fluid fistula repair, on 15 August 2001 in Boston, Massachusetts (United States). [AAS 102 (2010): 183-185]

beatification: 19 September 2010 (at Cofton Park, Rednal, Birmingham, England)

    competent forum for inquiry on miracle for canonization: Chicago

    opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for canonization: 22 June 2015

    closing of diocesan inquiry on miracle for canonization: 26 October 2016

    decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle: 11 March 2017

    meeting of the Medical Board: 02 March 2018

    particular congress of theological consultors: 11 October 2018

    ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 15 January 2018

    promulgation of decree on miracle: 12 February 2019

the rapid, complete, and lasting healing of [Melissa Villalobos,] a thirty-six-year-old mother of four, from copious abdominal bleeding and suspected miscarriage, on 15 May 2013 at her home in Elmhurt, Illinois (United States). [AAS 111 (2019): 826-28; name disclosed in public media]

    consistory: 01 July 2019

canonization: 13 October 2019

    competent forum for conferral of title «Doctor of the Church»: Urbis et Orbis

    plenary session of Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith on «eminens doctrina»:

    publication of Positio for conferral of  title «Doctor of the Church»:

    ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

    papal confirmation of the positive vote of ordinary session: 31 July 2025

conferral of title « Doctor of the Church »: 01 November 2025

        

postulator during canonization: Rev. Mauro De Gioia, co

postulator for conferral of title «Doctor of the Church»: Rev. George Bowen, co

information: The Birmingham Oratory, Hagley Road, Birmingham B16 8UE, UNITED KINGDOM

website: www.birminghamoratory.org.uk

    

  

11) 14 August in Thomaston, Connecticut (United States)

    

MICHAEL JOSEPH McGIVNEY

priest of the archdiocese of Hartford;

founder, Knights of Columbus

born: 12 August 1852 in Waterbury, Connecticut (United States)

    

competent forum: Hartford

CCS protocol number: 2188

type of cause: heroic virtues

   

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 15 September 1997

opening of diocesan inquiry: 18 December 1997

closing of diocesan inquiry:  06 March 2000

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 14 April 2000

publication of Positio: 2003

session of historical consultors: 28 October 2003

particular congress of theological consultors: 12 February 2008

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 11 March 2008

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 15 March 2008

    opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

    closing of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

    decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle: 26 April 2013

     meeting of the Medical Board:

     particular congress of theological consultors: 

     ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

     promulgation of decree on miracle: 26 May 2020

beatification: 31 October 2020

         

postulator:

petitioner: Knights of Columbus, 1 Columbus Plaza, New Haven, CT 06510-3326, USA

website: www.fathermcgivney.org

  

  

12) 16 August in Barcelona (Spain)

  

MARIA DEL CARME DE SOJO BALLESTER de ANGUERA

layperson of the archdiocese of Barcelona; married;

member, Lay Carmelites

born: 15 October 1856 in Reus, Barcelona (Spain)

    

competent forum: Barcelona

CCS protocol number: 59

type of cause: heroic virtues

     

opening of informative process:

closing of informative process:

decree on writings: 28 July 1926

introduction of cause:

decree « non cultu »:

opening of apostolic process:

closing of apostolic process:

decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops:

   

postulator: Dr. Giovanna Brizi

petitioner: Peres Carmelites, S. Herminegild, 13, 08006 Barcelona, SPAIN

website:

  

      

13) 23 October in Reims, Marne (France)

   

JULIAN-NICOLAS RÈCHE (ARNOULD)

professed religious, Brothers of the Christian Schools (De La Salle Brothers)

born: 02 September 1838 in Landroff, Moselle (France) 

   

competent forum: Reims

CCS protocol number: 978

type of cause: heroic virtues

   

      

opening of informative process: 1938

closing of informative process: 1962

decree on writings: 21 December 1968

introduction of cause: 04 May 1981

decree on validity of informative process: 05 February 1982

publication of Positio: 1984

particular congress of theological consultors: 13 February 1986

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 20 May 1986

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 05 June 1986

    opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

    closing of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

    decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle: 11 November 1983

    meeting of the Medical Board: 10 July 1986

    particular congress of theological consultors: 07 November 1986

    ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 20 January 1987

    promulgation of decree on miracle: 26 January 1987

beatification: 01 November 1987

   

postulator: Frt. Felicien Bora, fsc

petitioner: Frères des Écoles Chrétiennes, 86 Rue de Courlancy, 51096 Reims, FRANCE

website:

   

   

14) 26 December in Madrid (Spain)

   

VICENTA MARÍA LÓPEZ VICUÑA

founder, Religious of Mary Immaculate

born: 22 March 1847 in Cascante, Navarra (Spain)

   

competent forum: Madrid

CCS protocol number: 202

type of cause: heroic virtues

   

        

opening of informative process: 1915

closing of informative process: 1919

decree on writings: 20 May 1924

introduction of cause: 18 July 1928

decree of « non cultu »: 17 July 1929

opening of apostolic process:

closing of apostolic process:

decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 19 July 1939

antepreparatory congregation: 04 February 1941

preparatory congregation: 28 April 1942

general congregation: 12 January 1943

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 21 March 1943

 

    competent forum for inquiry on miracle for beatification: Pamplona-Tudela

    opening of apostolic process on 1° miracle for beatification: 

    closing of apostolic process on 1° miracle for beatification: 

   

    competent forum for inquiry on 2° miracle for beatification:  Pamplona-Tudela

    opening of apostolic process on 2° miracle for beatification: 

    closing of apostolic process on 2° miracle for beatification: 

    decree on validity of apostolic processes on miracles: 03 July 1944

    antepreparatory congregation on miracles: 11 November 1947

    preparatory congregation on miracles: 25 October 1948

    general congregation on miracles: 06 December 1949

    promulgation of decree on miracles: 11 December 1949

[1] the rapid and lasting healing of Inés Deán Güelbenzu, a woman from Cascante, Navarra (Spain), from lethal meningitis, most probably tubercular, in the early morning hours of 27 July 1928; and,

[2] the rapid and lasting healing of  José María Gómez Ullate, cousin of the aforemention Inés Deán Güelbenzu, from lethal acute agranulocytic angina, in the early morning hours of  28 April 1929. [AAS 42 (1950): 207-09]

beatification: 19 February 1950

decree on the resumption of canonization cause: 14 March 1952

 

    competent forum for inquiry on miracle for beatification: Madrid

    opening of apostolic process on miracle for canonization: 1953

    closing of apostolic process on miracle for canonization: 1953

    decree on validity of cognitional process on miracle: 15 October 1954

    antepreparatory congregation on miracles:

    preparatory congregation on miracles: 27 June 1961

    congress of CCS officials and consultors: 10 July 1974

    plenary session of cardinals and bishops: 19 November 1974

    papal confirmation of plenary session sentence: 05 December 1974

    promulgation of decree on miracle: 09 December 1974

the rapid and lasting healing of Ginés Muñoz Jiménez, a barely four-year-old child from Madrid, from a hemorrhagic ureter with lethal cardiovascular insufficiency, due to acute diffuse nephritis on 29 April 1951 at his parents’ house. [AAS 67 (1975): 212-14]

canonization: 25 May 1975

   

postulator during canonization: Rev. Teodoro Zamalloa, osst

information: Religiosas de María Inmaculada, C/ Fuencarral, 97, 28004 Madrid, SPAIN

                         Religiose di Maria Immacolata, Via Cassia, 585, 00189 Roma, ITALY

                         [1982: María Aurelia Iglesias Hidalgo (María Stella)] 

website: www.religiosasmariainmaculada.org

    

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