1) 07 January in Nespeky, Středočeský kraj (Czech Republic)
   

        JOSEF URBAN (JAN EVANGELISTA)
        professed priest, Franciscan Friars Minor;

                founder, Sisters of the Apostolate of Saint Francis (n.o.)
        born: 20 February 1901 in Prague (Czech Republic)

        competent diocese: Prague

        protocol number: 2332

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 18 March 2000

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 08 February 2000

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: Sestry Apoštolátu sv. Františka, Proboštská 3, 160 00 Praha 6 – Dejvice, CZECH REPUBLIC

        website:

2) 28 February in Salamanca (Spain)

        MARÍA NATIVIDAD SÁNCHEZ VILORIA

                (MARÍA FRANCISCA OF THE CHILD JESUS)
        professed religious, Poor Clare Nuns
        born: 25 December 1905 in Fuenteguinaldo, Salamanca (Spain)
 

        competent diocese: Salamanca

        protocol number: 2466
        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 02 March 2002

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 02 March 2002

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 28 February 2004

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: Monasterio del Corpus Christi, Ronda del Corpus, 48-54, 37002 Salamanca, SPAIN

        website:

3) 15 March in Bari (Italy) in defensum castitatis, uti fertur
   

        SANTA SCORESE
        young layperson of the diocese of Bari-Bitonto
        born: 06 February 1968 in Bari (Italy)
 

        competent diocese: Bari-Bitonto

        protocol number: 2217

        type of cause: martyrdom

        nihil obstat: 31 March 1998

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 05 April 1998

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 07 September 1999

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 14 April 2000

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: Amici di Santa, P.le Santa Scorese, 70027 Palo del Colle (BA), ITALY

        website: http://santascorese.it
   

4) 23 March in Trosly-Breuil, Oise (France)

   
        PAULINE ARCHER-VANIER
        layperson of the archdiocese of Ottawa; married
        born: 28 March  1898 in Montréal, Quebec (Canada)
 

        competent diocese: Ottawa

        protocol number:

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:  

        postulator:         

        petitioner: [see 1967: Georges-Philias Vanier]

        website:

5) 23 March  in Taunggyi, Shan (Myanmar)

   
        FELICE TANTARDINI
        professed religious, Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions
        born: 28 June 1898 in Introbio, Como (Italy)

        competent diocese: Taunggyi

        protocol number: 2349

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 23 May 2000

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 02 August 2001

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 28 January 2005

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: Postulazione Fr. Felice Tantardini, Via Mosè Bianchi 94, 20149 Milano, ITALY

        website:

                    
6) 25 March in Toledo (Spain)

   
        JOSÉ RIVERA RAMÍREZ
        priest of the archdiocese of Toledo
        born: 17 December 1925 in Toledo (Spain)

        competent diocese: Toledo

        protocol number: 2235

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 18 July 1998

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 21 November 1998

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 21 October 2000

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 18 January 2002

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: Fundación José Rivera, Apdo. 307, 45080 Toledo, SPAIN

        website:

7) 25 March in Paris (France)

        PIERRE GOURSAT

        layperson of the archdiocese of Paris;

                founder, Emmanuel Community

        born: 15 August 1914 in Paris (France)

        competent diocese: Paris

        protocol number: 2827

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat:        

        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: Communauté de l'Emmanuel, 18 Bd. du Général Koenig, 92521 Neuilly cedex, FRANCE

        website:

8) 29 May in Chauchina, Granada (Spain)
   
        RAFAELA MARTÍNEZ-CAÑAVATE BALLESTEROS

                (RAFAELA MARÍA OF THE EUCHARISTIC JESUS)
        professed religious, Capuchin Poor Clare Nuns
        born: 31 March 1915 in Maracena, Granada (Spain)

        competent diocese: Granada

        protocol number: 2458
        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 29 January 2002

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 27 January 2002

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 17 April 2004

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 29 April 2005

        publication year of Positio: 2007

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: Convento de Capuchinas, Carrera 2, 18330 Chauchina (Granada), SPAIN

        website:

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

9) 17 June in Guadalajara, Jalisco (Mexico)
   

        MARÍA DEL CARMEN LÓPEZ GUZMÁN

                (MARÍA YOLANDA OF OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE)
        professed religious, Servants of the Holy Trinity and the Poor (n.o.)
        born: 20 June 1942 in Mesa del Pino, Atotonilco el Alto, Jalisco (Mexico)
 

        competent diocese: Guadalajara

        protocol number: 2194

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 30 July 1997

        nihil obstat: 20 October 1997

        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 1949: Vicenta Chávez Orozco (María Vicenta of Saint Dorothy)]

        website:

       
10) THREE MARTYRS OF CHIMBOTE
   
        10 August in Pariacoto, Ancash (Peru) in odium fidei, uti  fertur
   

    1.    MICHAŁ TOMASZEK
            professed priest, Franciscan Conventuals
            born: 23 September 1960 in Łękawica, Śląskie (Poland)
    2.    ZBIGNIEW ADAM STRZAŁKOWSKI
            professed priest, Franciscan Conventuals
            born: 03 July 1958 in Tarnów, Małopolskie (Poland)
       

        25 August toward Riconada, Ancash (Peru) in odium fidei, uti fertur

       
     3.    ALESSANDRO DORDI
            priest of the diocese of Bergamo;

                    missionary of “Fidei Donum”
            born: 23 January 1931 in Gromo San Marino, Bergamo (Italy)

        competent diocese: Chimbote

        protocol number: 2038

        type of cause: martyrdom

        nihil obstat: 05 June 1995

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 09 August 1996

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 25 August 2002

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 24 October 2003

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: Pp. Franciscanos Conventuales, Urb. 21 de Abril, B-32, Apdo. 204, Chimbote, PERU
                             Kuria Prowincjalna Franciszkanów, ul. Żółkiewskiego, 14, 31-539 Kraków, POLAND

                             [1995: Vladyslav Kernyts’kyi (Rafail)]

                             Parrocchia S. Maria Nascente, P.za Chiesa,  24020 Gromo San Marino Gandellino (BG), ITALY

        website:

11) 22 September in La Grita, Táchira (Venezuela) in defensum castitatis, uti fertur
       
        MARÍA ISRAEL BOGOTÁ BAQUERO
        professed religious, Carmelites of Mother Candelaria (n.o.)
        born: 03 March 1943 in Arbeláez, Cundinamarca (Colombia)
 

        competent diocese: San Cristóbal (Venezuela)

        protocol number: 2470
        type of cause: martyrdom

        nihil obstat: 21 March 2002

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:  

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 12 March 2004

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: [see 1940: Susana Paz-Castillo Ramírez (Candelaria of Saint Joseph)]

        website:

12) 06 October in Yuba, California (United States)
       

        ALPHONSE GALLEGOS
        professed priest, Augustinian Recollects;

                auxiliary bishop of Sacramento
        born: 20 February 1931 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (United States)
 

        competent diocese: Sacramento

        protocol number: 2706

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 05 June 2006

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 04 December 2005

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 05 November 2006

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: Catholic Diocese of Sacramento, 2110 Broadway, Sacramento, CA 95818, UNITED STATES

                             Augustinian Recollects - Province of St. Augustine, 29 Ridgeway Ave.,

                                     West Orange, NJ 07052-3217, UNITED STATES

        website:

13) 17 October in Guatemala City (Guatemala)
   

        ERNESTO GUILLERMO COFIÑO UBICO
        layperson of the personal prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei; married
        born: 05 June 1899 in Guatemala City (Guatemala)
 

        competent diocese: Guatemala City

        protocol number: 2363

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 07 July 2000

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 31 July 2000

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 05 April 2001

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 15 February 2002

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        postulator:         

        petitioner: Vicepostulación del Opus Dei, 5a. Avenida 4-20, Zona 14,

                                     Apdo. Postal 111-A, Ciudad de Guatemala, GUATEMALA

        website:

14) 06 November in Coslada, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (Spain)
       

        DOROTEO HERNÁNDEZ VERA
        priest of the diocese of Santander;

                founder, Secular Institute of the Evangelic Crusade (n.o.)
        born: 28 March 1901 in Matute de Almazán, Soria (Spain)
 

        competent diocese: Alcalá de Henares

        protocol number: 2389

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 02 January 2001

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 03 February 2001

        closing of diocesan inquiry:

        validation of dicoesan inquiry: 30 November 2006

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: