1) 08 January in Vajnory, Bratislavský (Slovakia) in odium fidei, uti fertur

        TITUS ZEMAN
        professed priest, Salesians of Don Bosco
        born: 04 January 1915 in Vajnory, Bratislavský (Slovakia)    

        competent diocese: Bratislava

        protocol number:

        type of cause: martyrdom

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        postulator:        
        petitioner: Saleziáni Don Bosca - Slovenská provincia, Miletičova 7, 821 08 Bratislava, SLOVAKIA

        website:

2) 09 February in Genoa (Italy)

        GIOVANNI GIUSEPPE BONZI (UMILE FROM GENOA)
        professed priest, Franciscan Capuchins
        born: 21 April 1898 in Genoa (Italy)    

        competent diocese: Genoa

        protocol number: 1943

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 31 January 1994

        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: Frati Minori Cappuccini, P.za Cappuccini, 1, 16122 Genova, ITALY
                             “Sorisso Francescano,” Via Coronata, 61, 16152 Cornigliano (GE), ITALY

        website:

3) 11 March in Griñon, Madrid (Spain)

        FRANCISCO ANDRÉS GARMENDÍA MENDIZABÁL (ANDRÉS HIBERNON)
        professed religious, De La Salle Brothers
        born: 03 September 1880 in Beizama, Guipúzcoa (Spain)

        competent diocese: Madrid

        protocol number: 1486

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 22 July 1985

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 12 July 1991

        publication year of Positio: 1993

        meeting of theological consultors: 24 November 2006

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 20 May 2008

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 03 July 2008

        postulator:        
        petitioner: Hermanos de La Salle, C/ Inmaculada, 11, 28970 Griñon (Madrid), SPAIN

        website:

4) 17 May in Rome (Italy)

        JOSEF BERAN
        archbishop of Prague; cardinal
        born: 29 December 1888 in Plzeň, Plzeňský kraj (Czech Republic)

        competent diocese: Prague

        protocol number: 2162

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        competentia fori: 14 February 1997 (from the vicariate of Rome)

        nihil obstat: 09 February 1998

        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: Arcibiskupská Kurie, Hradčanské nám. 16, 119 02 Praha 1, CZECH REPUBLIC

        website:

5) 30 May in Rome (Italy)

        ULISSE AMENDOLAGINE
        layperson of the vicariate of Rome; married;

                member, Secular Carmelites
        born: 14 May 1893 in Salerno (Italy)

        competent diocese: Rome

        protocol number: 2583

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 09 January 2004

        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: Provincia Romana dei Carmelitani Scalzi, Via XX Settembre, 17, 00187 Roma, ITALY
                             [1951: Lelia Cossidente Amendolagine;

                              1989: Aldo Brienza (Immacolato Giuseppe of Jesus)]

        website: http://www.vicariatusurbis.org/amendolagine/index.htm

6) 27 June in Verona (Italy)

        EMILIO RECCHIA
        professed priest, Stigmatines
        born: 19 February 1888 in Verona (Italy)

        competent diocese: Verona

        protocol number: 2403

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 23 April 2001

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 17 November 2006

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:        
        petitioner: Parrocchia S. Croce a Via Flaminia, Via G. Renzi, 2/d, Rome, ITALY

                             Pp. Stimmatini, Via C. Montanari, 3, 37122 Verona, ITALY

        website:

7) 29 June in Tropea, Catanzaro (Italy)

        FRANCESCO MOTTOLA
        priest of the diocese of Tropea;

                founder, Secular Institute of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart (n.o.)
        born: 03 January 1901 in Tropea, Catanzaro (Italy)

        competent diocese: Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea

        protocol number: 1274

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 15 October 1981

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors: 23 March 2007

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 06 November 2007

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 17 December 2007

        postulator:        
        petitioner: Oblate del Sacro Cuore, Via Abate Sergio, 12, 89861 Tropea (CZ), ITALY

        website:

8) 01 July in Catania (Italy)

        AGATINA BALSAMO (GIUSEPPINA)
        professed religious, Dominican Sisters of the Sacred Heart (n.o.)
        born: 31 October 1887 in Mascalucia, Catania (Italy)

        competent diocese: Catania

        protocol number: 1506

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 17 February 1986

        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: Rev. Vito Tomás Gómez García, op

        petitioner: Suore Domenicane del Sacro Cuore, Via S. Nullo, 46, 95123 Catania, ITALY

        website:

9) 13 August in Marcianise, Caserta (Italy)

        ANNA MEZZACAPO (COLOMBA OF JESUS IN THE BLESSED SACRAMENT)
        professed nun, Discalced Carmelite Nuns
        born: 15 June 1914 in Marcianise, Caserta (Italy)

        competent diocese: Capua

        protocol number: 1787

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 22 March 1991

        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: Carmelitane Scalze, P.za Principe di Piemonte, Contrada Boscariello, 81041 Vitulazio (CE), ITALY

        website:

10) 25 August in Sucúa, Morona-Santiago (Ecuador)

        MARIA TRONCATTI
        professed religious, Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters)
        born: 16 February 1883 in Corteno Golgi, Brescia (Italy)

        competent diocese: Méndez

        protocol number: 1535

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 20 October 1986

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 07 September 1986

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 25 October 1987

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 07 July 1989

        publication year of Positio: 1997

        meeting of theological consultors: 05 May 2008

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:        
        petitioner: Hijas de María Auxiliadora, Calle Yaguachi E8-115, El Dorado
                                    – Apdo.17.01.2144 Quito, ECUADOR

        website:

11) 06 September in San Lazzaro di Savena, Bologna (Italy)

        OLINTO MARELLA

        priest of the archdiocese of Bologna
        born: 14 June 1882 in Pallestrina, Venice (Italy)

        competent diocese: Bologna

        protocol number: 2075

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 20 October 1995

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 08 September 1996

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 17 December 2005

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:        
        petitioner: Opera Padre Marella, Via dei Ciliegi, 6, 40068 San Lazzaro di Savena (BO), ITALY

        website:

12) 02 October in Sassoferrato, Ancona (Italy)

        ALFREDO MORGANTI [BERTA]
        professed priest, Franciscan Friars Minor
        born: 05 June 1886 in Pianella di Ostra, Ancona (Italy)

        competent diocese: Fabriano-Matelica

        protocol number: 1686

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 29 August 1989

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 17 November 2001

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio: 2008

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:        
        petitioner: Convento S. Caterina, Via S. Caterina, 7, 60044 Fabriano (AN), ITALY

        website:

13) 09 October in Changanacherry, Kerala (India)

        MATHEW KAVUKATT
        archbishop of Changanacherry of the Syro-Malabar Rite
        born: 17 July 1904 in Pravithanam, Kerala (India)

        competent eparchy: Changanacherry

        protocol number: 2135

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 21 October 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:        
        petitioner: Archeparchy of Changanacherry, P.O. Box 20, Changanaserry, 686 101 Kerala, INDIA

        website:

14) 15 October in Łódź, Łódzkie (Poland)

        Maciej Józef Gądek (Anzelm of SAINT Andrew Corsini)
        professed priest, Discalced Carmelites;

                founder, Carmelite Sisters of the Child Jesus (n.o.)
        born: 24 February 1884 in Mazowieckie, Małopolskie (Poland)

        competent diocese: Łódź

        protocol number: 2434

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 12 October 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: [see 1946: Joanna Kierocińska (Maria Teresa of Saint Joseph)]

        website:

15) 09 December in Rome (Italy)

        MARIA CHIARA MAGRO
        layperson of the archdiocese of Palermo;

                consecrated member, Secular Institute of the Missionaries of the Kingship of Christ
        born: 03 June 1923 in Palermo (Italy)

        competent diocese: Palermo

        protocol number: 1456

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 10 August 1984

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 10 November 1989

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 11 July  1995

        postulator:        
        petitioner: Parrocchia di S. Agata La Pedata, Via del Vespro, 90127 Palermo, ITALY

        website:

16) 09 December in Bari (Italy)

        ISABELLA [BINA] MORFINI

        layperson of the diocese of Bari-Bitonto;

                member, Secular Carmelites

        born: 19 April 1889 in Bari (Italy)

        competent diocese: Bari-Bitonto

        protocol number: 2560

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 14 July 2003

        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: Parrocchia di Maria SS. del Rosario in S. Francesco, P.za Garibaldi, 77, 70122 Bari, ITALY

        website:

17) 22 December in Pietra Ligure, Savona (Italy)

        VERA GRITA

        layperson of the diocese of Savona-Noli;

                member, Salesian Cooperators

        born: 28 January 1923 in Rome (Italy)

        protocol number:

        competent diocese: Savona-Noli

        protocol number:

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        postulator:        
        petitioner: Opera dei Tabernacoli Viventi, Via Copernico, 9, 20125 Milano, ITALY

        website:

18) 31 December in Montalto Uffugo, Cosenza (Italy)

        GAETANO FRANCESCO MAURO
        priest of the diocese of Cosenza;

                founder, Congregation of Rural Catechists, Ardorini Missionaries
        born: 13 April 1888 in Rogliano, Cosenza (Italy)

        competent diocese: Cosenza-Bisignano

        protocol number: 2435

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 30 October 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: Missionari Ardorini, P.za E. Bianco, 16, 87046 Montalto Uffugo (CS), ITALY

                             [1633: Carlo Carafa;

                              1726: Emilio Giacomo Cavalieri]

        website: