1) 08 January in Maldonado (Uruguay)

2) 11 January in Campinas, São Paulo (Brazil)

        ROBERTO GIOVANNI

        professed religious, Stigmatines

        born: 16 March 1903 in Rio Claro, São Paulo (Brazil)

        competent diocese:  São João da Boa Vista

        protocol number:

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:  

        actor: Santuário Nossa Senhora do Desterro, C.P. 20, 13700-000 - Casa Branca, SP, BRAZIL

3) 23 March in Rome (Italy)

        ALVARO DEL PORTILLO DÍEZ DE SOLLANO

        bishop of the personal prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei

        born: 11 March 1914 in Madrid (Spain)

        competent diocese: Rome/Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei

        protocol number: 2577

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 21 January 2004

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 05 March 2004; 20 March 2004

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 26 June 2008

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: [see 1975: Josemariá Escrivá de Balaguer Albás]

4) 24 March in Miami, Florida (USA)
       

        JOHN JOSEPH [JUAN JOSÉ] McKNIFF
        professed priest, Augustinians
        born: 05 September 1905 in Media, Pennsylvania (USA)
 

        competent diocese: Chulucanas

        protocol number: 2347

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        competentia fori: 08 April 2000 (from the archdiocese of Miami)

        nihil obstat: 07 July 2000

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 28 August 2000

        closing of diocesan inquiry:  28 August 2002

        validation of diocesan inquiry: 23 April 2004

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Pp. Agustinos, Casa de la Fraternidad-Obispado, Chulucanas, Piura, PERU

5) 03 April in Paris (France)

        Jérôme Lejeune

        layperson of the archdiocese of Paris; married

        born: 13 June 1926 in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine (Paris) 

        competent diocese: Paris

        protocol number: 2774

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 26 June 2007

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 28 June 2007

        closing of diocesan inquiry:  

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Association des amis du professeur Lejeune, 31 rue Galande, 75005 Paris, FRANCE
        website: http://amislejeune.org/

6) 15 June in Rome (Italy)

        GUGLIELMO GIAQUINTA

        bishop of Tivoli;

                founder, Pro Sanctity Movement

        born: 28 June 1914 in Noto, Syracuse (Italy)

        competent diocese: Rome

        protocol number:

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:  

        actor: Movimento Pro Sanctitate, P.za S. Andrea della Valle, 3, 00186 Roma, ITALY

       
7) 23 August in Messina (Italy)
       
        ELENA BRUNO (MARIA ALFONSA OF THE CHILD JESUS)
        professed religious, Handmaids of Reparation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
        born: 10 April 1937 in Tarquinia, Viterbo (Italy)
      

        competent diocese: Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela

        protocol number: 2420
        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat: 13 July 2001

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 23 August 2001

        closing of diocesan inquiry:  

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: [see 1952: Antonino Celona]

        website: http://suormariaalfonsa.it/

8) 29 September in Madrid (Spain)

        FRANCISCA [PAQUITA] DOMÍNGUEZ SUSÍN de ALVIRA

        layperson of the Personal Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei; married
        born:  01 April 1912 in Borau, Huesca (Spain)

        competent diocese: Madrid

        protocol number:

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        nihil obstat:

        opening of diocesan inquiry:

        closing of diocesan inquiry:  

        actor: [see 1992: Tomás Alvira y Alvira;

                      see also 1985: Eduardo Ortiz de Landázuri Fernández de Heredia]

9) 01 October in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (Spain)

   
        TOMÁS MORALES PÉREZ
        professed priest, Jesuits;

                founder, Secular Institute of the Crusaders of Mary
        born: 30 October 1908 in Macuto, Distrito Federal (Venezuela)
       

        competent diocese: Madrid

        protocol number: 2325

        type of cause: heroic virtues

        competentia fori: 18 December 1999 (from the diocese of Alcalá de Henares)

        nihil obstat: 14 April 2000

        opening of diocesan inquiry: 24 June 2000

        closing of diocesan inquiry: 18 March 2007  

        validation of diocesan inquiry:

        publication year of Positio:

        meeting of theological consultors:

        ordinary congregation of cardinals and bishops: 

        actor: Instituto Secular Cruzadas de María, C/ Benito Gutiérrez, 45, 28008 Madrid, SPAIN

                    Instituto Secular Cruzados de María, C/ Ecija 4, 28008 Madrid, SPAIN