1) 27 February in Alep, Halab (Syria)   

        MĀTĪLD SHELḨOT SALĪM [ماتيلد شلحت ﺴﻟﻳﻢ]
        layperson of the archeparchy of Alep of the Melkites; married;

                member, Salesian Cooperators
        born: 15 November 1904 in Alep, Halab (Syria)

        competent eparchy: Alep of the Melkites

        protocol number: 1927

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 04 February 1994

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 26 October 1995

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Fondation Georges et Mathilde Salem, B.P. 93, Alep, SYRIA

                             Œuvre Georges et Mathilde Salem, Rue Fayçal, B.P. 220, Alep, SYRIA

        website:

Note: The French transliteration of the name is “Mathilde Chelhot Salem”.

2) 16 March in Pangala, Zaire (Angola) in odium fidei, uti fertur

        LAZZARO GRAZIANI (LAZZARO FROM SARCEDO)

        professed priest, Franciscan Capuchins

        born: 20 October 1918 in Sarcedo, Vicenza (Italy)

        competent diocese: M’Banza Congo

        protocol number:

        type of cause: martyrdom

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        postulator:
        petitioner: [see 1942: Bogdan Ivan Mandić (Leopoldo from Castelnuovo)]

                              Cúria Viceprovincial OFMCap, Rua de Caxito, 2, C.P. 2344, ANGOLA

        website:

3) 27 March in Naples (Italy)   

        ANGELA IACOBELLIS
        child of the diocese of Naples
        born: 16 October 1948 in Rome (Italy)

        competent diocese: Naples

        protocol number: 1796

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 11 June 1991

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 14 October 1991

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 11 October 1993

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Parrocchia S. Giovanni dei Fiorentini, P.za degli Artisti, 80129 Napoli, ITALY

        website:

4) 18 April in Madrid (Spain)   

        HERMELINDA SIMÓN PRIETO (HERMELINDA OF THE HEART OF JESUS)
        professed religious, Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (n.o.)
        born: 04 March 1881 in Guamil, Orense (Spain)

        competent diocese: Madrid

        protocol number: 1527

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 31 July 1986

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 21 May 1993

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: [1899: Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez (Isabel of the Heart of Jesus)]

        website:

5) 15 May in Laski, Kyyivs’ka oblast’ (Ukraine)    

        RÓŻA CZACKA (ELŻBIETA)
        founder, Franciscan Sisters Handmaids of the Cross (n.o.)

        born: 22 October 1876 in Bila Tserkva, Kyyivs’ka oblast’ (Ukraine)

        competent diocese: Warsaw

        protocol number: 1593

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 08 February 1988

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 03 April 1998

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Siostry Franciszkanki Slużebnice Krzyża, ul. Piwna 9/11, 00-265 Warszawa, POLAND

        website:

6) 16 June in Tambaú, São Paulo (Brazil)    

        DONIZETTI TAVARES DE LIMA
        priest of the diocese of São João da Boa Vista
        born: 03 January 1882 in Santa Rita de Cássia, Minas Gerais (Brazil)

        competent diocese: São João da Boa Vista

        protocol number: 2139

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 02 December 1996

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator: Fra Paolo Lombardo, ofm

        petitioner: Associação de Fiéis do Pe. Donizetti, Praça Padre Donizetti, 41 – Centro

                                     13710-000 – Tambaú – SP, BRAZIL

        website:

7) 17 June in Budapest (Hungary)

        MESTER MARGIT MÁRIA

        founder, “Unum Sanctissimae Trinitatis” Society (n.o.)
        born: 10 December 1906 in Tamási, Tolna (Hungary)

        competent diocese: Esztergom-Budapest

        protocol number:

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Unum Sanctissimae Trinitatis Társaság, Kisfaludy u. 35., 1191 Budapest, HUNGARY

        website:

8) 19 June in Rome (Italy)   

        ELENA AIELLO
        founder, Minim Sisters of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (n.o.)
        born: 10 April 1895 in Montalto Uffugo, Cosenza (Italy)

        competent diocese: Cosenza

        protocol number: 1308

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat for introduction of cause: 07 January 1982

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 22 January 1991

        postulator: Fra Paolo Lombardo, ofm
        petitioner: Suore Minime della Passione, Via dei Martiri, 9, 87100 Cosenza, ITALY

        website:

9) 19 June in Civitavecchia, Rome (Italy)   

        PIO FREZZA

        priest of the diocese of Civitavecchia;

                founder, Sisters Workers of Jesus (n.o.)

        born: 11 June 1875 in Lanuvio, Rome (Italy)

        competent diocese: Civitavecchia-Tarquinia

        protocol number: 2754

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat: 22 February 2007

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Suore Operaie di Gesù, Via Carlo Calisse, 80, 00053 Civitavecchia (RM), ITALY

        website:

10) 24 August in Bari (Italy)
   
        CARMINE DE PALMA
        priest of the diocese of Bari-Bitonto
        born: 27 January 1876 in Bari (Italy)

        competent diocese: Bari-Bitonto
        protocol number: 2401

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat: 06 March 2001

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Diocesi di Bari-Bitonto, P.za Odigetria, 1, 70122 Bari, ITALY

                             Oasi “Santa Maria”, Via Riconciliazione dei Cristiani, Km. 2, 70020 Cassano delle Murge (BA), ITALY

        website:

11) 21 September in Santa Maria do Suaçuí, Minas Gerais (Brazil)    

        LAFAYETTE DA COSTA COELHO
        priest of the diocese of Guanhães
        born: 10 November 1886 in Serro, Minas Gerais (Brazil)

        competent diocese: Guanhães

        protocol number: 2380

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat: 13 November 2000

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Memorial Cônego Lafayette, Pça. da Matriz, 88 – Centro
                                     39780-000 – Santa Maria do Suaçuí – MG, BRAZIL

        website:

12) 14 October in Buenos Aires (Argentina) 

        SERAFINA ERDELY (SOFRONIA)
        professed religious, Sisters of the Order of Saint Basil the Great
        born: 10 August 1884 in Ruski Krstur, West Bačka (Serbia)

        competent eparchy: Santa María del Patrocinio in Buenos Aires

        protocol number: 1693

        type of cause: heroic virtues

       
        nihil obstat: 20 November 1989

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Hermanas Basilianas - Provincia "Cristo Rey", Caracas 370,

                                     C1406AZF Capital Federal, ARGENTINA                  

                             Hermanas Basilianas, Suipacha 57, N3350DTA Apóstoles (Misiones), ARGENTINA

        website:

13) 23 November in Campinas, Goiânia (Brazil)   

        PELÁGIO SAUTER
        professed priest, Redemptorists
        born: 09 November 1878 in Hausen am Tann, Baden-Württemberg (Germany)

        competent eparchy: Goiânia

        protocol number: 2198

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 20 October 1997

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Província Redentorista de Goiás,  Rua 230, nº 256 – Vila Monticelli/ Nova Vila
                                     74655-130 – Goiânia – GO, BRAZIL

                              Causa do Pe. Pelágio, Rua Rio Grande do Sul, 513 – Campinas

                                     74520-070 – Goiânia – GO, BRAZIL

        website:

14) 07 December in Tábor, Jihočeský (Czech Republic) in odium fidei, uti fertur
   
        MICHAL BUZALKA
        auxiliary bishop of Trnava
        born: 18 September 1885 in Svätý Antol, Banská Štiavnica (Slovakia)

        competent eparchy: Trnava
        protocol number: 2333

        type of cause: martyrdom

       
        competentia fori: 25 February 2000 (from the diocese of České Budějovice)

        nihil obstat: 19 November 2001

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Trnavská Arcidiecéza, Hollého ul. 10, SK 917 66 Trnava, SLOVAKIA

        website:

15) 12 December in Turin (Italy)

        VIRGINIA LAZZARI (MARIA MARGHERITA OF JESUS CRUCIFIED)
        founder, Missionary Sisters of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ (n.o.)
        born: 06 June 1885 in Turin (Italy)

        competent eparchy: Mondovì

        protocol number: 2163

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        competentia fori: (from the archdiocese of Turin)

        nihil obstat: 15 March 1997

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Suore Missionarie della Passione di NSGC,  P.za S. Caterina, 9, 12089 Villanova Mondovì (CN), ITALY

        website:

16) 22 December in Florence (Italy)  

        ELIA DALLA COSTA
        archbishop of Florence; cardinal
        born: 14 May 1872 in Villaverla, Vicenza (Italy)

        competent eparchy: Florence

        protocol number: 1355

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat for introduction of cause: 26 January 1981

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 19 November 1993

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Arcidiocesi di Firenze, P.za Sn. Giovanni 3, 50129 Firenze, ITALY

        website:

17) 24 December in Valencia (Spain)

        Emilio Lissón ChÁveZ

        professed priest, Vincentians;

                archbishop of Lima

        born: 24 May 1872 in Arequipa (Peru)

        competent eparchy: Valencia

        protocol number: 2513

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 13 November 2002

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 21 September 2003

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 31 May 2008

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops:

        postulator:
        petitioner: Causa de Monseñor Lissón, Hogar de San Eugenio, C/ Milagrosa, 11, 46009 Valencia, SPAIN

        website: