~ 1944 ~

1) 03 January in Lecce (Italy)
   

        DINO ZAMBRA
        young layperson of the archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto
        born: 12 March 1922 in Chieti (Italy)

        competent diocese: Chieti-Vasto
        protocol number: 1092

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 04 July 1961

        nihil obstat: 26 May 1997

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Dino Zambra Associazione, Via Pescara, 203, 66013 Chieti, ITALY

                    Arcidiocesi di Chieti-Vasto, Largo G.B. Valignani, 4, 66100 Chieti, ITALY
                    Pp. Salesiani, Badia S. Maria d’Arabona, 65025 Manoppello Scalo (PE), ITALY

        website: http://www.dinozambra.it
   
   

2) 03 January in Tvirtovės, Kaunas, Kauno rajonas (Lithuania) in defensum castitatis, uti fertur
   

        ELENA SPIRGEVIČIŪTĖ [biography]
        young layperson of the archdiocese of Kaunas
        born: 22 September 1924 in Tvirtovės, Kaunas, Kauno rajonas (Lithuania)

        competent diocese: Kaunas
        protocol number: 2315

        type of cause: martyrdom

       
        nihil obstat: 22 October 1999

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: [see 1955: Adelė Dirsytė]
   
   

3) 04 January in San Chirico Raparo, Potenza (Italy)
   

        ANTONIO MARIA DE SARLO
        priest of the diocese of Tursi-Lagonegro
        born: 11 February 1875 in San Chirico Raparo, Potenza (Italy)
        protocol number: 1511

        nihil obstat: 22 March 1986

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Vescovado di Tursi-Lagonegro, Via Roma, 63, 75028 Tursi (MT), ITALY
 

4) 12 January in Bangkok (Thailand) ex aerumnis carceris
   

        NIKHOLAS BUYKOET KRISBAMRUNG (BENEDIKTO CHUNKIM)

                [นิโคลาส บุญเกิด กฤษบำรุง (เบเนดิกโต ชุนกิม)]
        priest of the archdiocese of Bangkok
        born: 28 February 1895 in Sam Phran, Nakhon Pathom (Thailand)
        protocol number: 2026

        nihil obstat: 07 March 1995

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        promulgation of decree on martyrdom: 27 January 2000

        beatification: 05 March 2000

       
        actor: Assumption Cathedral, Charoenkrung 40, Bangrak, Bangkok 10500, THAILAND
        Note: The Thai scripts of this name have been Romanized using the method employed by the

                   UNGEGN Working Group on Romanization Systems. Vatican documents, on the other hand,

                   Romanize it as “Nicholas Bunkerd (or Bunkert) Kitbamrung”. The original family name,
                   being Chinese in origin, may also be Romanized as “Xunkim”.
 

5) 25 January in Alessandria (Italy)
   

        TERESA GRILLO MICHEL (MARIA ANTONIA)
        widow; founder, Little Sisters of Divine Providence (n.o.)
        born: 25 September 1855 in Spinetta Marengo, Alessandria (Italy)
        protocol number: 929

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        introduction of cause: 16 December 1972

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 06 July 1985
        beatification: 24 May 1998

       
        actor: Piccole Suore della Divina Provvidenza, Via Divina Provvidenza, 41, 00166 Roma, ITALY
       
       

6) 24 January in Regensburg, Bavaria (Germany)
   

        BERNHARD LEHNER
        child of the diocese of Regensburg
        born: 04 January 1930 in Herrngiersdorf, Bavaria (Germany)
        protocol number: 676

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 21 March 1986

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Causa Bernhard Lehner, Sandsbach, Am Kirchberg 2, 84097 Herrngiersdorf, GERMANY
       

7) 02 February in Tomelloso, Ciudad Real (Spain)
       

        RAMÓN MONTERO NAVARRO
        child of the diocese of Ciudad Real;

                member, Lay Carmelites
        born: 07 January 1930 in Tomelloso, Ciudad Real (Spain)

        protocol number:

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        actor: Tercera Orden del Carmen, C/ Doña Crisanta, 68, 13700 Tomelloso (Ciudad Real), SPAIN

8) 27 February in Lucca (Italy)
   
        STEFANO ANTONI
        priest of the archdiocese of Lucca
        born: 28 December 1852 in Ghivizzano, Lucca (Italy)
        protocol number: 2521
        nihil obstat: 27 November 2002

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Curia Arcivescovile, Via Arcivescovato, 45, 55100 Lucca, ITALY

                    Parrocchia S. Cassiano di Mariano, Via della Chiesa, 315, 55060 Lucca, ITALY
   

9) 28 February in Natal, Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil)

        LUIZ GONZAGA DO MONTE

        priest of the archdiocese of Natal

        born: 03 January 1905 in Vitória dos Santo Antão, Pernambuco (Brazil)

        protocol number: 2649

        nihil obstat: 13 May 2005

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 24 October 2005

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Arquidiocese de Natal, Av. Floriano Peixoto, 674 – Tirol
                            59020-500 – Natal – RN, BRAZIL

                    [1645: André de Soveral, Ambrósio Francisco Ferro and 29 Companions;

                     1905: João Maria Cavalcanti de Brito]

10) 25 March in Majdanek, Lubelskie (Poland) in odium fidei
   

        OMELIAN KOVCH [OМEЛЯН КОВЧ]
        priest of the eparchy of Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk); married
        born: 20 August 1884 in Kosiv, Ivano-Frankivs’ka oblast (Ukraine)
        protocol number: 2256

        nihil obstat: 13 October 1998

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        promulgation of decree on martyrdom: 24 April 2001
        beatification: 27 June 2001

       
        actor: [see Martyrs of Eastern Europe (1): Mykolai Charnets’kyi and 24 Companions]
   

   
11) 07 April in Gusen, Upper Austria (Austria) in odium fidei, uti fertur
   
        JOHANN GRUBER
        priest of the diocese of Linz

        born: 20 October 1889 in Tegernbach bei Grieskirchen, Upper Austria (Austria)

        protocol number:

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        actor: Diözese Linz, Herrenstraße 19, 4020 Linz, AUSTRIA

12) 17 April in Berlin (Germany) in odium fidei, uti fertur
   
        MAX JOSEF METZGER (PAULUS)
        priest of the archdiocese of Freiburg im Breisgau;

                founder, Secular Institute of Christ the King (n.o.)
        born: 03 February 1887 in Schopfheim, Baden-Württemberg (Germany)
        protocol number: 2499
        competentia fori: 06 September 2003 (from the archdiocese of Berlin)

        nihil obstat:  28 November 2005

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Christkönigs-Institut, St.-Wolfgang-Str. 14, 86405 Meitingen, GERMANY
   

13) 21 April in Sidolo di Bardi, Parma (Italy) in odium fidei, uti fertur

        GIUSEPPE BEOTTI

        priest of the diocese of Piacenza-Bobbio

        born: 26 March 1912 in Gragnano Trebbiense, Piacenza (Italy)

        protocol number:

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        actor: Postulazione Don Beotti, Via Torta,28, 29100 Piacenza, ITALY

                    Parrocchia S. Michele, Via Roma, 76, 29010 Gragnano Trebbiense (PC), ITALY

14) 12 May in Nairobi (Kenya)
       

        EDEL MARY QUINN
        layperson of the archdioceses of Nairobi and Dublin;

                member, Legion of Mary
        born: 14 September 1907 in Kanturk, Cork (Ireland)
        protocol number: 1011

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 03 May 1991

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 15 December 1994

       
        actor: Concilium Legionis Mariae, Morning Star Ave., Brunswick St., Dublin 7, IRELAND
                    [1959: Alphonsus Lambe;

                     1980: Francis Michael Duff]
   

   
15) 25 July in Valle di Gressoney, Aosta (Italy)
   

        LUIGI [GINO] PISTONI
        young layperson of the diocese of Ivrea
        born: 25 February 1924 in Ivrea, Turin (Italy)
        protocol number: 2011

        nihil obstat: 24 February 1995

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Vescovado d’Ivrea, P.za Castello 3, 10015 Ivrea (TO), ITALY
   

   
16) 28 August in Santa Giulia, Dego, Savona (Italy) in defensum castitatis
   

        TERESA BRACCO

        young layperson of the diocese of Acqui Terme
        born: 24 February 1924 in Santa Giulia, Dego, Savona (Italy)
        protocol number: 1604

        nihil obstat: 15 April 1988

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        promulgation of decree on martyrdom: 07 July 1997
        beatification: 24 May 1998

       
        actor: Diocesi di Acqui Terme, P.za Duomo 4, 15011 Acqui Terme (AL), ITALY
       
       

17) 13 September in Kraków, Małopolskie (Poland)
   

        ROZALIA CELAK
        layperson of the archdiocese of Kraków
        born: 19 September 1901 in Jachówka, Małopolskie (Poland)
        protocol number: 2148

        nihil obstat: 14 December 1996

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Biuro Postulacji S.B. Rozalii Celakówny, ul. Rozalii Celakówny 11,

                            Szczyglice, 32-083 Balice, POLAND
   

18) 29 September in Casaglia di Caprara, Bologna (Italy) in odium fidei, uti fertur

   
        UBALDO MARCHIONI
        priest of the archdiocese of Bologna
        born: 19 May 1918 in Vimignano di Grizzana Morandi, Bologna (Italy)
        protocol number: 2241

        nihil obstat: 19 August 1998

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Postulazione, Via S. Stefano, 58, 40125 Bologna, ITALY

                    Parrocchia di Ss. Giuseppe e Carlo, P.za Martiri delle Fosse Ardeatine,

                            40043 Marzabotto (BO), ITALY

                   [1944: Ferdinando Casagrande;

                    1944: Giovanni Fornasini]

19) 01 October in Pioppe di Salvaro, Grizzana, Bologna (Italy) in odium fidei, uti fertur
   

        ELIA COMINI
        professed priest, Salesians of Don Bosco
        born: 07 May 1910 in Calvenzano di Vergato, Bologna (Italy)
        protocol number: 2023

        nihil obstat: 14 February 1995

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Vicepostulazione dei Salesiani, Via Jac. della Quercia, 1, 40128 Bologna, ITALY

20) 01 October in Pioppe di Salvaro, Grizzana, Bologna (Italy) in odium fidei, uti fertur
       

        NICOLA CAPELLI (MARTINO)
        professed priest, Congregation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Dehonians)
        born: 20 September 1912 in Nembro, Bergamo (Italy)
        protocol number: 2024

        nihil obstat: 14 February 1995

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Vicepostulazione del Sacerdoti del Sacro Cuore, Via Nosadella, 6, 40123 Bologna, ITALY

21) 09 October in Casaglia di Caprara, Bologna (Italy) in odium fidei, uti fertur
       

        FERDINANDO CASAGRANDE
        priest of the archdiocese of Bologna
        born: 15 November 1913 in Castelfranco Emilia, Bologna (Italy)
        protocol number: 2242

        nihil obstat: 19 August 1998

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: [see 1944: Ubaldo Marchioni]

22) 13 October in Casaglia di Caprara, Bologna (Italy) in odium fidei, uti fertur

        GIOVANNI FORNASINI
        priest of the archdiocese of Bologna
        born: 23 November 1915 in Pianaccio di Lizzano, Belvedere, Bologna (Italy)
        protocol number: 2243

        nihil obstat: 19 August 1998

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: [see 1944: Ubaldo Marchioni]

23) 22 October in Kiskunmajsa, Bács-Kiskun (Hungary) in odium fidei, uti fertur

        SIMON ERZSÉBET (MÁRIA ETELKA)

        professed religious, School Sisters of Notre Dame

        born: 28 February 1898 in Medgyesegyháza, Békés (Hungary)

        protocol number:

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        actor: Szegedi Iskolanővérek, Knézich u. 5-7, 1092 Budapest, HUNGARY

24) 01 November in Lviv, L’viv’ska oblast (Ukraine)
       

        ROMAN OLEKSANDR MARIA SHEPTYTS’KYI (ANDREI)
                [РОМАН ОЛЕКСАНДР МАРІА ШЕПТИЦЬКИЙ (АНДРЕЙ)]
        professed priest, Basilians of Saint Josaphat;

                archbishop of Lviv of the Ukrainians
        born: 22 July 1865 in Prylbychi, L’viv’ska oblast (Ukraine)
        protocol number: 792

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 15 November 2002

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Misia “Postuliatsiinyi Tsentr Beatifikatsii i Kanonizatsii Sbiatykh UGKTS”,           

                           Pl. Soborna 3a, 79008 m. L’viv, UKRAINE

                   [Місія «Постуляційний центр беатифікації й канонізації святих УГКЦ», 

                           пл. Соборна 3а, 79008 м. Львів, Україна]

                   [Martyrs of Eastern Europe (4): Petro Mekelyta and 47 Companions]

   
25) early November in Trieste (Italy) in odium fidei, uti fertur
   

        NICOLA CORTESE (PLACIDO)
        professed priest, Franciscan Conventuals
        born: 07 March 1907 in Cres, Primorsko-Goranska (a.k.a. Cherso, Quarnaro)

                            (then in Italy, now in Croatia)
        protocol number: 2431

        nihil obstat: 08 October 2001

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Curia Provinciale dei Frati Conventuali, Via Cesarotti, 2, 35123 Padova, ITALY
       

26) 03 November in Camerino, Macerata (Italy)
       

        ELENA GIACOBINI (MARIA GIUSEPPA)
        professed religious, Dominican Nuns
        born: 04 November 1864 in Caldarola, Macerata (Italy)
        protocol number: 1293

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        introduction of cause: 31 July 1981

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:     

        actor: Monastero Domenicano, Via Emilia Interna, 556, 48014 Castelbolognese (RA), ITALY
   

       
27) 13 November in Halle an der Saale, Saxony-Anhalt (Germany) in odium fidei, uti fertur
   

        CARL LAMPERT
        priest of the diocese of Feldkirch
        born: 09 January 1894 in Göfis, Voralberg (Austria)
        protocol number: 2191

        nihil obstat: 05 September 1997

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Bischöfliches Ordinariat, Bahnhofstraße 13, 6800 Feldkirch, AUSTRIA
       

       
28) 15 November in Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia)

        JORGE MURCIA RIAÑO
        priest of the archdiocese of Bogotá;

                founder, Sisters of Saint John the Evangelist (n.o.)

        born: 20 October 1895 in Santafé de Bogotá (Colombia)

        protocol number: 2627
        nihil obstat: 06 October 2004

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Hermanas de San Juan Evangelista, Carrera 7A N. 10-20, Santafé de Bogotá, COLOMBIA

29) 22 November in Pavlovce nad Uhom, Košický kraj (Slovak Republic) in defensum castitatis, uti fertur

        ANNA [ANKA] KOLESÁROVÁ

        young layperson of the diocese of Košice

        born: 14 July 1928 in Vysoká nad Uhom, Košický kraj (Slovak Republic)

        protocol number: 2608

        nihil obstat: 03 July 2004

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Sekretariát blahorečenia Anny Kolesárovej, Arcibiskupský úrad, Hlavná 28,

                            041 83 Košice, SLOVAK REPUBLIC
       

30) 23 December in Auschwitz-Oświęcim, Małopolskie (Poland)

       
        MARIA CÄCILIA AUTSCH (ANGELA MARIA OF THE HEART OF JESUS)
        professed religious, Trinitarian Sisters of Valencia (n.o.)
        born: 26 March 1900 in Röllecken, Sauerland, North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany)
        protocol number: 1700

        nihil obstat: 15 January 1990

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Schwestern Trinitarierinnen, Husarentempelgasse, 4, A-2340 Mödling, AUSTRIA
                    Religiosas Trinitarias Descalzas, C/ Orihuela, 45, 46009 Valencia, SPAIN
   
   

31) 24 December in Hersbruck, Bavaria (Germany) in odium fidei, uti fertur
       

        ODOARDO FOCHERINI
        layperson of the diocese of Carpi; married
        born: 06 June 1907 in Carpi, Modena (Italy)
        protocol number: 2090

        nihil obstat: 12 February 1996

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 28 May 1999

        publication year of Positio: 2003

        meeting of theological consultors: 16 October 2007

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Vescovado di Carpi, Via Don Eugenio Loschi 1, 41012 Carpi (MO), ITALY

                    Parrocchia della Madonna della Neve, Via Carlo Marx, 109, 41012 Carpi (MO), ITALY

        website: http://www.odoardofocherini.it
   
       

32) 27 December in Budapest (Hungary) in odium fidei, uti fertur
   

        SALKAHÁZI SÁRA [Schalkház Sára]
        professed religious, Sisters of Social Service
        born: 11 May 1899 in Košice (a.k.a. Kassa), Košický kraj (then in Hungary; now in Slovakia)
        protocol number: 2141

        nihil obstat: 02 December 1996

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 19 January 1997

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 18 May 1998

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 25 February 2000

        publication year of Positio: 2004

        meeting of theological consultors: 05 April 2005

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 21 June 2005

        promulgation of decree on martyrdom: 28 April 2006

        beatification: 17 September 2006

       
        actor: Szociális Testvérek Társasága, Bartók Béla út 61. III./6, 1114 Budapest, HUNGARY

        website: http://www.salkahazisara.com
   

33) 29 December in Rome (Italy)
       

        MARIA ITALIA PESCOSOLIDO
        professed religious, Sisters of the Poor of Saint Catherine of Siena
        born: 16 November 1916 in Ceprano, Frosinone (Italy)
        protocol number: 1102

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 17 February 1967

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        nihil obstat:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        session of historical consultors:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: [see 1923: Savina Petrilli]

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