~ 1927 ~

1) 17 January in Rome (Italy)

        GIUSEPPINA BERETTONI [biography]
        layperson of the vicariate of Rome;

                member, Secular Franciscans
        born: 06 August 1875 in Rome (Italy)

        competent diocese: Rome
        CCS protocol number:

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        postulator: Fra Luca De Rosa, ofm        

        petitioner: Fraternitá Nazionale OFS, Via Pomponia Grecina, 31, 00145 Roma, ITALY

        website:

2) 27 January in Kaunas (Lithuania)

        JURGIS MATULAITIS-MATULEWICZ
        bishop of Kaunas;

                renovator, [1] Marians of the Immaculate Conception;

                founder, [2] Sisters of the Immaculate Conception

                and [3] Sister Servants of the Eucharistic Jesus (n.o.)
        born: 13 April 1871 in Lugine, Marijampolė (Lithuania)

        competent diocese: Rome/Kaunas
        CCS protocol number: 829

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        opening of informative process:

        closing of informative process:

        decree on writings: 26 June 1959

        introduction of cause: 09 February 1967

        decree “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 07 March 1975

        commission of CCS officials and consultors:

        plenary session of cardinals:

        papal confirmation of plenary session sentence:

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 11 May 1982

            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

            promulgation of decree on miracle: 30 June 1986
        beatification: 28 June 1987

        postulator: Rev. Andrzej Pakuła, mic

        petitioner: [1] [see 1701: Jan Papczyński (Stanisław of Jesus and Mary)]
                             [2]  Šv. Mergelės Marijos Vargdienių Seserų, P. Kriaučiūno g. 11, LT-68298 Marijampolė, LITHUANIA
                             [3] Siostry Eucharystki, ul. Zawisy, 3, 05-800 Pruszków, POLAND

        website:

       
3) 07 February in Hrodna, Hrodzyenskaya voblasts’ (Belarus)
   

        JÓZEF FORDON (MELCHIOR) [Язэп Фордон (Мельхіёр)]

        professed priest, Franciscan Conventuals
        born: 05 August 1862 in Hrodna (a.k.a. Grodno), Hrodzyenskaya voblasts’

                            (then in Poland, now in Belarus)

        competent diocese: Warsaw
        CCS protocol number: 1924

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat: 12 January 1996

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 12 November 1999

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Fra Angelo Paleri, ofmconv

        petitioner: Klasztor Stygmatów Sw. Franciszka, ul. Zakroczymska, 1, 00-225 Warszawa, POLAND

        website:

4) 09 February in Barranquilla, Atlántico (Colombia)

        SATURNINO IBARGUREN GURUDI

        professed priest, Jesuits
        born: 11 February 1856 in Villareal de Urretxu, Guipúzcoa (Spain)

        competent diocese: Baranquilla/Pamplona-Tudela
        CCS protocol number: 71

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        opening of informative process:

        closing of informative process:

        decree on writings: 12 July 1946

        introduction of cause:

        decree “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Paolo Molinari, sj

        petitioner: Curia Provincial de la Compañía de Jesús, Carrera 23 # 39-69, Bogotá, D.C., COLOMBIA

        website:

5) 12 February in Begoña, Bilbao, Vizcaya (Spain)

        ANTONIA OTEGI ZABALA (ANTONIA OF JESUS)

        professed religious, Sisters Adorers, Handmaids of Charity and of the Blessed Sacrament
        born: 10 February 1894 in Asteasu, Guipúzcoa (Spain)

        competent diocese: Vitoria
        CCS protocol number: 454

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        
        opening of informative process: 22 June 1935

        closing of informative process:

        nihil obstat:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:

        petitioner: Casa Provincial Hnas. Adoratrices, C/ Menéndez Pidal, s/n, 50009 Zaragoza, SPAIN

                             [see also 1865: Micaela Desmaisières López de Dicastillo (María Micaela of the Blessed Sacrament)]

        website:

       
6) 25 March in Ain Karim, Yerushalayim (Israel)

        MARYAM SŪLTANAH DANIL GHAŢŢAS  (MARIE-ALPHONSINE) [ﻣﺮﻴﻢ ﺳوﻟﺑﻨﻪ ﺪﻨﻲﻞ غطَاسْ]

        cofounder, Sisters of the Holy Rosaly of Jerusalem of the Latins (Rosary Sisters)
        born: 04 October 1843 in Jerusalem (Israel)

        competent diocese: Jerusalem of the Latins
        CCS protocol number: 1533

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        
        nihil obstat: 20 October 1986

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 15 December 1994

            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 
            closing of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 
            decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle: 10 May 2006

            session of medical consultors: 29 November 2007

            meeting of theological consultors:
            congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:
            promulgation of decree on miracle: 03 July 2009

        beatification:

        postulator: Rev. Vito Tomás Gómez García, op

        petitioner: Congregation of the Rosary Sisters, P.O. Box 21370, Beit-Hanina, 91213 Jerusalem, ISRAEL 

        website:

Note: In several Arabic circles, the first baptismal name is Romanized as “Mariam”  and the second as “Sultaneh”.

7) 08 April in Belmonte, Cuenca (Spain)
   

        DOMINGO ITURRATE ZUBERO (DOMINGO OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT)

        professed priest, Trinitarians
        born: 11 May 1901 in Dima, Vizcaya (Spain)
               

        competent diocese: Cuenca/Vitoria
        CCS protocol number: 91

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        
        opening of informative process:

        closing of informative process:

        decree on writings:

        introduction of cause: 29 March 1958

        decree “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes:

        commission of CCS officials and consultors:

        plenary session of cardinals:

        papal confirmation of plenary session sentence:

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 11 October 1980

            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

            promulgation of decree on miracle: 14 May 1983
        beatification: 30 October 1983

        postulator: Rev. Antonio Sáez de Albéniz, osst
        petitioner: Provincia Trinitaria de España-Norte, C/ Echegaray, 30, 28014 Madrid, SPAIN

                             Religiosos Trinitarios, San Martin, 6, 48990 Getxo-Algorta (Vizcaya), SPAIN

                             [1951: Felix Monasterio Ateca (Felix of the Virgin)]

        website:

8) 12 April in Naples (Italy)
   

        GIUSEPPE MOSCATI

        layperson of the diocese of Naples
        born: 25 July 1880 in Benevento (Italy)

        competent diocese: Naples
        CCS protocol number: 507

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        opening of informative process:

        closing of informative process:
        decree on writings: 11 March 1945

        introduction of cause: 06 March 1949

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:
        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 17 January 1958

        commission of CCS officials and consultors:

        plenary session of cardinals:

        papal confirmation of plenary session sentence:

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 10 May 1973

            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

            promulgation of decree on miracle:
        beatification: 16 November 1975

            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for canonization: 

            promulgation of decree on miracle:
        canonization: 25 October 1987

       
        information: Chiesa di Gesù Nuovo, Via S. Sebastiano 48, 80134 Napoli, ITALY

        website:

9) 02 May in Pallanza, Novara (Italy)
   

        SILVIO GALLOTTI

        priest of the diocese of Novara
        born: 21 September 1881 in Cannobio, Verbania (Italy)

        competent diocese: Novara
        CCS protocol number: 936

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        
        opening of informative process: 1953

        closing of informative process: 1959

        decree on writings:

        introduction of cause: 15 December 1981

        decree “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 17 February 1995

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors: 07 November 2003

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops: 03 February 2004

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 19 April 2004

                opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for canonization: 
                closing of diocesan inquiry on miracle for canonization: 
                decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle:
                session of medical consultors: 30 June 2005
       

        postulator: Dr. Andrea Ambrosi

        petitioner: Oblati dei SS. Gaudenzio e Carlo ― Missionari di Maria,

                                     Via Monte San Gabriele 1/E, 28100 Novara, ITALY

                              Santuario della Pietà, P.za del Santuario, 28822 Cannobio (VB), ITALY

        website:

10) 08 May in Convent Station, New Jersey (USA)

        TERESA DEMJANOVICH (MIRIAM TERESA)

        professed religious, Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth
        born: 26 March 1901 in Bayonne, New Jersey (USA)

        competent diocese: Paterson
        CCS protocol number: 801

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        
        opening of informative process:

        closing of informative process:

        decree on writings:

        introduction of cause: 19 June 1980

        decree “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process: 18 May 1981

        closing of apostolic process: 18 December 1981

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 28 May 1999

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 2002

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues:
                opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for canonization: 
                closing of diocesan inquiry on miracle for canonization: 
                decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle: 02 July 2005
                session of medical consultors:
       

        postulator: Dr. Silvia Mónica Correale

        petitioner: Sister Miriam Teresa League, Convent Station, NJ 07961, USA

        website: www.scnj.org/teresa/index.htm

11) 13 May in Granada (Spain)
   

        MARÍA CONCEPCION BARRECHEGUREN GARCÍA

        young layperson of the diocese of Granada
        born: 27 November 1905 in Granada (Spain)

        competent diocese: Granada
        CCS protocol number: 552

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        
        opening of informative process: 21 September 1938

        closing of informative process: 07 November 1945

        decree on writings: 09 February 1956

        opening of supplementary inquiry: 1977

        closing of supplementary inquiry: 1979
        decree on validity of informative process and supplementary inquiry: 24 April 1992

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 2002

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Antonio Marrazzo, cssr

        petitioner: [see 1957: Francisco Barrecheguren Montagut]

        website:

12) 01 June in Messina (Italy)
   

        ANNIBALE MARIA DI FRANCIA

        priest of the archdiocese of Messina;

                founder, Rogationists of the Heart of Jesus

                and Daughters of Divine Zeal
        born: 05 July 1851 in Messina (Italy)

        competent diocese: Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela
        CCS protocol number: 729

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        
        opening of informative process: 1945

        closing of informative process: 1952

        decree on writings: 19 December 1960;  12 March 1974

        introduction of cause: 19 January 1979

        decree “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 21 December 1989

            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

            promulgation of decree on miracle:
        beatification: 07 October 1990

            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for canonization: 

            promulgation of decree on miracle: 22 January 2004
        canonization: 16 May 2004

        information: Rogazionisti del Cuore di Gesù, Via Tuscolana, 167, 00182 Roma, ITALY

        website:

13) 28 June in Bogotá (Colombia)
   

        RAFAÉL MANUEL ALMANSA RIAÑO

        professed priest, Franciscan Friars Minor
        born: 02 August 1840 in Bogotá (Colombia)

        competent diocese: Bogotá
        CCS protocol number: 2078

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat: 27 October 1995

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 24 September 1999

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Fra Luca De Rosa, ofm        

        petitioner: Vicepostulación, Parroquia de San Diego, Carrera 7, Nº 26-37,  Santafé de Bogotá, COLOMBIA

                              Curia Provincial  OFM, Calle 73, Nº 10-67, Santafé de Bogotá, COLOMBIA

        website:

14) 19 July in Bogotá (Colombia)
   
        GABRIELA DURÁN PÁRRAGA (GABRIELA OF SAINT MARTIN)
        cofounder, Dominican Sisters of Saint Catherine of Siena of Colombia (n.o.)
        born: 22 May 1848 in Firavitoba, Boyocá (Colombia)

        competent diocese: Bogotá
        CCS protocol number:

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        postulator: Rev. Vito Tomás Gómez García, op

        petitioner: Dominicas de Santa Catalina de Siena, Carrera 11, N° 77 – 20, Bogotá, D.C., COLOMBIA

        website: www.domicatalinas.org

15) 06 August in Cagliari (Italy)
       

        ANTONINO PISANO

        professed cleric, Mercedarians
        born: 19 March 1907 in Cagliari (Italy)

        competent diocese: Cagliari
        CCS protocol number: 866

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        opening of informative process:

        closing of informative process:

        decree on writings: 25 October 1961

        introduction of cause:

        decree “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. José Zaporta Pallarés, o de m

        petitioner: Ordine della Mercede, P.za Bonaria, 2, 09125 Cagliari (CA), ITALY

                             Ordine della Mercede – Provincia Romana, Via Nocara, 21, 00166 Roma, ITALY

        website:

16) 17 August in Santiago (Chile)
   

        PERE MARCER CUSCÓ

        professed religious, Claretians
        born: 01 October 1854 in Avinyonet del Penedès, Barcelona (Spain)

        competent diocese: Santiago (Chile)
        CCS protocol number: 668

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        opening of informative process:

        closing of informative process:

        decree on writings: 23 January 1963

        introduction of cause:

        decree “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Aitor Jiménez Etxabe, cmf

        petitioner: [see 1904: Mariano Avellana Lasierra]

        website:

17) 11 September in Grottazzolina, Ascoli Piceno (Italy)
   

        PAOLA RENATA CARBONI

        young layperson of the archdiocese of Fermo
        born: 21 February 1908 in Montefalcone Appennino, Ascoli Piceno (Italy)

        competent diocese: Fermo
        CCS protocol number: 1045

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat to initiate cognitional process: 15 March 1980

        opening of cognitional process:

        closing of cognitional process:

        decree on validity of cognitional process: 27 September 1984

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 02 April 1993

        postulator: Rev. Gabriele Ferlisi, oad

        petitioner: Convento Madona della Misericordia, Via A. Murri, 1, 63023 Fermo (AP), ITALY

        website:

18) 04 October in México City (Mexico)
   

        SALVADOR GARCIDUEÑAS ARGÜELLO

        professed priest, Jesuits
        born: 05 August 1856 in Villa Escalante (a.k.a. Santa Clara del Cobre), Michoacán de Ocampo (Mexico)

        competent diocese: Mexico
        CCS protocol number: 1438

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        opening of informative process: 12 June 1957

        closing of informative process: 16 December 1982

        decree on validity of informative process:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Paolo Molinari, sj

        petitioner: Compañía de Jesús, Séneca No. 306, Col. Los Morales, Sec. Alameda, 11510 México, D.F., MEXICO

        website:

       
19) 20 November in Rachol, Goa (India)
   

        AGNELO GUSTAVO ADOLFO DE SOUZA

        professed priest, Missionary Society of Saint Francis Xavier of Pilar
        born: 21 January 1869 in Anjuna, Goa (India)
       

        competent diocese: Goa-Daman
        CCS protocol number: 842

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        opening of informative process:

        closing of informative process:

        decree on writings:

        introduction of cause: 21 December 1968

        decree “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes:

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 1985

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 10 November 1986

        postulator: Rev. Antonio Marrazzo, cssr

        petitioner: Vice Postulation, Society of Pilar, Goa 403 203, INDIA

        website:

20) 23 November in Mexico City (Mexico) in odium fidei
   

        MIGUEL AGUSTÍN PRO JUÁREZ
        professed priest, Jesuits
        born: 13 January 1891 in Guadalupe, Zacatecas (Mexico)

        competent diocese: Mexico
        CCS protocol number: 209

        type of cause: martyrdom

        opening of informative process:

        closing of informative process:

        decree on writings: 01 June 1947

        introduction of cause: 11 January 1952

        decree on “non-cultu”:

        opening of apostolic process:

        closing of apostolic process:

        decree on validity of informative and apostolic processes: 22 July 1964

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 1984

        meeting of theological consultors: 29 April 1986

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops: 01 July 1986

        promulgation of decree on martyrdom: 10 November 1986
        beatification: 25 September 1988

        postulator: Rev. Paolo Molinari, sj

        petitioner: Compañía de Jesús, Calle Puebla 144, Col. Roma, 06700 Cuauhtémoc, Mexico D.F., MEXICO

        website:

21) 25 December in Bari (Italy)
   

        TEODORA FRACASSO (ELIA OF SAINT CLEMENT)

        professed religious, Discalced Carmelite Nuns
        born: 17 January 1901 in Bari (Italy)

        competent diocese: Bari-Bitonto
        CCS protocol number: 807

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        opening of informative process: 27 October 1953

        closing of informative process: 09 May 1955

        decree on writings: 01 July 1964

        introduction of cause: 11 September 1980

        decree “non-cultu”: 08 May 1981

        opening of apostolic process: 1981

        closing of apostolic process: 1982

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 23 November 1984

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors: 07 July 1987

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops: 17 November 1987

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 11 December 1987

            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 

            promulgation of decree on miracle: 19 December 2005

        beatification: 18 March 2006

        postulator: Rev. Ildefonso Moriones Zubillaga, ocd

        petitioner: Carmelitane Scalze, Via de Rossi, 245, 70122 Bari, ITALY

        website:

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