1) 21 January in Buenos Aires (Argentina)

        ALPHONSUS [ALFIE] LAMBE
        layperson of the archdiocese of Buenos Aires;

                member, Legion of Mary
        born: 24 June 1932 in Tullamore, Offaly (Ireland)

        competent diocese: Buenos Aires

        CCS protocol number: 1561

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 17 June 1987

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Fra Luca De Rosa, ofm        

        petitioner: Legión de María ― Senatus de Buenos Aires, Somellera, 348,

                                      B1846BEF Adrogué, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA

                              [see also 1944: Edel Mary Quinn]

        website: www.alfonsolambe.org

2) 01 March in Granada (Spain)
       

        MARÍA DOLORES SEGARRA GESTOSO
        founder, Missionaries of Christ the Priest (n.o.)
        born: 15 March 1921 in Melilla (Spain)

        competent diocese: Madrid

        CCS protocol number: 1500

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        competentia fori: (from the diocese of Granada)

        nihil obstat: 18 December 1985

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 30 November 2001

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Romualdo Rodrigo Lozano, oar

        petitioner: Misioneras de Cristo Sacerdote, Carretera General de la Coruña, km. 17,

                                     28230 Las Rosaz (Madrid), SPAIN

        website:

3) 11 March in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

        HONORINA DE ABREU (MARIA JOSE OF JESUS)
        professed religious, Discalced Carmelite Nuns
        born: 18 February 1882 in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)

        competent diocese: Rio de Janeiro

        CCS protocol number: 1691

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 26 October 1989

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 06 March 1993

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Ildefonso Moriones Zubillaga, ocd
        petitioner: Carmelo de Santa Teresa, Ladeira de Sta. Teresa, 52 – Santa Teresa

                                     20241-140 – Rio de Janeiro – RJ, BRAZIL

        website:

4) 23 March in Leopoldov, Hlohovec (Slovakia) in odium fidei

        DOMINIK TRČKA (METOD)
        professed priest, Redemptorists
        born: 06 July 1886 in Frýdlant nad Ostravicí, Frýdek-Místek  (Czech Republic)

        competent eparchy: Prešov

        CCS protocol number: 2407

        type of cause: martyrdom

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        nihil obstat: 06 March 2001

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 09 March 2001

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 2001

        meeting of theological consultors: 06 April 2001

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops: 23 April 2001

        promulgation of decree on martyrdom: 24 April 2001
        beatification: 04 November 2001

        postulator: Rev. Antonio Marrazzo, cssr

        petitioner: Redemptoristi, Masarykova 35, 071 01 Michalovce, SLOVAKIA

        website:

5) 26 March in Barcelona (Spain)

        MARÍA MONTSERRAT GRASES GARCÍA
        young layperson of the personal prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei
        born: 10 July 1941 in Barcelona (Spain)

        competent diocese: Barcelona

        CCS protocol number: 1137

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        opening of informative process: 19 December 1962

        closing of informative process: 26 March 1968

        decree on writings: 22 February 1974

        decree on validity of informative process: 15 May 1992

        opening of supplementary inquiry:

        closing of supplementary inquiry:

        decree on validity of supplementary inquiry: 21 January 1994

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 1999

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Mons. Flavio Capucci
        petitioner: [see 1985: Eduardo Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia]

        website:

6) 28 April in Asunción (Paraguay)

        MARÍA GUGGIARI ECHEVERRÍA

                    (MARÍA FELICIA OF JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT)
        professed religious, Discalced Carmelite Nuns
        born: 12 January 1925 in Villarica del Espiritu Santo, Guairá (Paraguay)

        competent diocese: Asunción

        CCS protocol number: 2185

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 17 July 1997

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 22 February 2002

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 2004

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Ildefonso Moriones Zubillaga, ocd
        petitioner: Carmelitas Descalzas, N. Sra. del Carmen, 1141, Manorá, Asunción Capital, PARAGUAY

        website:

Note: In Spanish, the religious name is “María Felicia de Jesús Sacramentado”.

7) 03 July in Gulu (Uganda)

        JOHN McAULIFFE (NORBERT)
        professed religious, Brothers of the Sacred Heart
        born: 30 September 1886 in Manhattan, New York (USA)

        competent diocese: Gulu

        CCS protocol number: 1988

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 18 August 1994

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 09 June 1995

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 1998

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Frt. Conrad Pelletier, sc
        petitioner: Brothers of the Sacred Heart - New Orleans Province, 4401 Elysian Fields Ave.,

                                     New Orleans, LA 70122, USA

                             Brothers of the Sacred Heart, P.O. Box 642, Plot No. 16, Turker Crescent, Luzira, Kampala, UGANDA

                             [see also 1859: Jean-Hippolyte Gondre (Polycarpe)]

        website:

8) 06 July in Madrid (Spain)

        MARÍA ASUNCIÓN SOLER GIMENO (MARÍA ASUNCIÓN OF THE CROSS)
        founder, Carmelite Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (n.o.)
        born: 19 August 1882 in Cuart de Poblet, Valencia (Spain)

        competent diocese: Madrid

        CCS protocol number: 2438

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 19 November 2001

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 23 November 2002

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 20 December 2008

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Giovanni Grosso, ocarm
        petitioner: Carmelitas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús, C/ General Asensio Cabanillas, 41,

                                     28003 Madrid, SPAIN

        website:

9) 10 July Yên Bình, Yen Bái (Vietnam) in odium fidei, uti fertur
    

        GIOAKIM NGUYỄN TÂN VĂN (MARCEL)
        professed religious, Redemptorists
        born: 15 March 1928 in Ngăm Giáo, Bắc Ninh (Vietnam)

        competent diocese: Belley-Ars

        CCS protocol number: 2002

        type of cause: martyrdom

        competentia fori:

        nihil obstat: 07 January 1995

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 26 March 1997

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Antonio Marrazzo, cssr

        petitioner: Les Amis de Van,  15 rue de l’Orangerie, 78000 Versailles, FRANCE

        website: amisdevan.org

10) 30 July in Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico)

        MARÍA NATIVIDAD VENEGAS DE LA TORRE

                (MARÍA OF JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT)

        founder, Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Guadalajara (n.o.)
        born: 08 September 1868 in Zapotlanejo, Jalisco (Mexico)

        competent diocese: Guadalajara

        CCS protocol number: 1358

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat to initiate cognitional process: 19 June 1980

        opening of cognitional process: 18 March 1981

        closing of cognitional process: 07 April 1983

        decree on validity of cognitional process: 09 April 1984

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors: 11 November 1988

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops: 21 February 1989

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 13 May 1989
            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 25 February 1987

        beatification: 22 November 1992
            opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for canonization: 

        canonization: 21 May 2000

 
        information: Hijas del Sagrado Corazón de Jesus, Antonio Rosales 204, 44450 Guadalajara, Jal., MEXICO

        website:

Note: In Spanish, the religious name is “María de Jesús Sacramentado”. 

11) 08 August in Rome (Italy)

        LUIGI STURZO
        priest of the diocese of Catania
        born: 26 November 1871 in Caltagirone, Sicily (Italy)

        competent diocese: Rome

        CCS protocol number: 2207

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 23 March 2002

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Mons. Luigi Giuliani
        petitioner: Centro Internazionale Studi Sturziani, Circonv. Trionfale, 34, 00195 Roma, ITALY

        website: www.centrosturzo.it

12) 14 August in Siena (Italy)

        BIANCA PICCOLOMINI CLEMENTINI
        layperson of the archdiocese of Siena;

                founder, Company of the Daughters of Saint Angela Merici of Siena (part of the

                Company of Saint Ursula, Federation of the Secular Institute of Saint Angela Merici)
        born: 07 April 1875 in Siena (Italy)

        competent diocese: Siena

        CCS protocol number: 1521

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 22 May 1986

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 11 June 1986

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 31 March 1995

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 06 October 1995

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 1998

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Fra Paolo Lombardo, ofm

        petitioner: Compagnia delle Figlie di S. Angela Merici, Banchi di Sotto, 81, 53100 Siena, ITALY

        website:

13) 12 September in Manises, Valencia (Spain)

        JOSÉ RAMÓN GARCÍA PLANELLS

        layperson of the archdiocese of Valencia

        born: 21 October 1885 in Manises, Valencia (Spain)

        competent diocese: Valencia

        CCS protocol number: 1304

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        postulator:
        petitioner: [see 1936 Sp: Vicente Vilar David]

        website:

14) 11 November in Rome (Italy)

        GIOVANNI MINOZZI
        priest of the vicariate of Rome;

                founder, Congregation of the Family of the Disciples (n.o.)
                and Handmaids of the Lord (n.o.)
        born: 18 October 1884 in Amatrice, Rieti (Italy)

        competent diocese: Rome

        CCS protocol number: 2461

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 13 February 2002

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

        consignment of Positio to CCS:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Francesco Bracciani, fdd
        petitioner: Congregazione della Famiglia dei Discepoli, Via dei Pianellari, 7, 00186 Roma, ITALY

                             [1931: Giovanni Semeria;

                              1966: Maria Marchetta]
                             Ancelle del Signore, Via Lucania, 8, 63100 Ascoli Piceno (AP), ITALY

        website: www.operadonminozzi.it

15) 16 November in Barranquilla, Atlantico (Colombia)

        LUISA AVELEDO OSTOS (MARCELINA OF SAINT JOSEPH)
        founder, Sisters of the Poor of Saint Peter Claver (n.o.)  
        born: 18 June 1874 in Caracas (Venezuela)

        competent diocese: Barranquilla

        CCS protocol number: 1517

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 05 May 1986

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 04 October 1991

        consignment of Positio to CCS: 1996

        meeting of theological consultors:

        congregation of CCS cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Rev. Romualdo Rodrigo Lozano, oar

        petitioner: Hermanas de los Pobres de San Pedro Claver, Calle 110 - Transversal, 41, N. 40-01,

                                     Aptdo. Aereo 85288, Santafé de Bogotá, COLOMBIA

        website: