1) 08 January in Maldonado (Uruguay)

UMBERTO ORSETTI ANDREA

(DOMINGO FROM TACUAREMBÓ)

professed priest, Capuchin Franciscans

born: 04 May 1899 in Bella Vista, Tacuarembó (Uruguay)

competent forum: Maldonado

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”:

opening of diocesan inquiry: 08 January 2019

closing of diocesan inquiry:  

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Fra Carlo Calloni, ofmcap

petitioner: Fraternidad Capuchina, 18 de Julio 833, CP 20000, Maldonado,  URUGUAY

website: www.padredomingo.com

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

ROBERTO GIOVANNI

professed religious, Stigmatines

born: 18 March 1903 in Rio Claro, São Paulo (Brazil)

competent forum:  São João da Boa Vista

CCS protocol number: 2891

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 14 December 2009

opening of diocesan inquiry: 16 March 2010

closing of diocesan inquiry: 02 October 2012

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 25 January 2013

publication of Positio: 2016

particular congress of theological consultors: 06 June 2019

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 20 October 2020

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 27 October 2020

postulator: Rev. Renato Sanges, css

petitioner: Província Santa Cruz – Estigmatinos, Rua 09, 1670 – Santa Cruz

                           13500-220 – Rio Claro – SP, BRAZIL

                     Lar Irmão Roberto Giovanni,  Av. Irmão Roberto Giovanni, 209 – Desterro

                           13700-000 – Casa Branca – SP, BRAZIL

website: www.estigmatinos.com.br

3) 14 January in Paris (France)

JEAN MERLIN

permanent deacon of the archdiocese of Paris

born: 01 November 1931 in Grenoble, Isère (France)

competent forum: Paris

CCS protocol number: 2950

type of cause: heroic virtues

opening of diocesan inquiry: 08 March 2006

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 2010

closing of diocesan inquiry: 14 January 2024

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Deac. Michel Jan

petitioner: Les Amis de Jean Merlin, 68 rue Dehesme, 75018 Paris, FRANCE

                     Paroisse Notre-Dame de Clignancourt, 97 rue du Mont-Cenis, 75018 Paris, FRANCE 

website: solidaritejeanmerlin.org

4) 27 January in Verona (Italy)

LUIGI BOSIO

priest of the diocese of Verona

born: 10 April 1909 in Avesa, Verona (Italy)

competent forum: Verona

CCS protocol number: 2868

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 27 November 2008

opening of diocesan inquiry: 01 December 2008

closing of diocesan inquiry: 29 January 2012

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 05 November 2012

publication of Positio: 2016

particular congress of theological consultors: 18 January 2018

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 06 November 2018

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 07 November 2018  

postulator: Dr. Paolo Vilotta

petitioner: Amici di Mons. Luigi Bosio, Parrocchia-Cattedrale di Verona, P.za Duomo, 2, 37121 Verona, ITALY

website: www.donluigibosio.it

5) 28 February in Valdinievole, Pistoia (Italy)

DANIELA BENEDETTI SPADONI

layperson of the diocese of Pescia; married

born: 27 October 1966 in Borgo a Buggiano, Pistoia (Italy)

competent forum: Pescia

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 21 October 2021

opening of diocesan inquiry: 24 October 2021

closing of diocesan inquiry:

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Dr. Pierantonio Piatti

petitioner: Diocesi di Pescia, Via Giusti, 1, 51017 Pescia (PT), ITALY

website: www.danielabenedetti.it

6) 02 March in Varallo Sesia, Vercelli (Italy)

ALESSIA ANTONIA GUAINI

(MARGHERITA MARIA)

founder, Missionary Sisters of Jesus the Eternal Priest

born: 21 November 1902 in Ceto, Brescia (Italy)

competent forum: Novara

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

opening of diocesan inquiry: 29 April 2011

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 2014

closing of diocesan inquiry: 07 May 2016 

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 17 December 2022

postulator: Dr. Francesca Amedea Consolini

petitioner: Missionarie di Gesù Eterno Sacerdote, Via Trionfale, 7585, 00135 Roma,  ITALY

                     Missionarie di Gesù Eterno Sacerdote, P.za Ferrari, 6, 13019 Varallo (VC), ITALY

website:

7) 23 March in Rome (Italy)

ÁLVARO 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 forum: Rome/Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei

CCS protocol number: 2577

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 21 January 2004

opening of diocesan inquiry: 05 March 2004 (Rome); 20 March 2004 (Opus Dei)

closing of diocesan inquiry: 26 June 2008 (Rome); 07 August 2008 (Opus Dei)

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 02 April 2009

publication of Positio: 2010

particular congress of theological consultors: 10 February 2012

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 05 June 2012

    opening of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 05 August 2008

    closing of diocesan inquiry on miracle for beatification: 06 August 2009

    decree on validity of diocesan inquiry on miracle: 15 January 2010

    meeting of the Medical Board: 18 October 2012

beatification: 27 September 2014

postulator: Rev. Javier Medina Bayo

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

website: www.opusdei.org

8) 23 March in P’yatnytsya, Dobromyl, Sambir, Lviv (Ukraine)

SEMYON HNATYUK (SEVERIAN)

[СЕМЕН ГНАТЮК (СЕВЕРІЯН)]

professed priest, Basilians of Saint Josaphat

born: 28 December 1918 in Savchyn, Chervonohrad, Lviv (Ukraine)

competent forum: Sambir-Drohobych

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”:

opening of eparchial inquiry:

closing of eparchial inquiry: 

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator:

petitioner: Vasyliyans’kii monastyr sv. Onufriya, vul. Zamkova 165, m. Dobromyl’,                           

                                Starosambirs’kyy r-n , 82042 L’vivs’ka obl., UKRAINE

                           [Василіянський монастир св. Онуфрія, вул. Замкова 165, м. Добромиль,

                                Старосамбірський р-н , 82042 Львівська обл., Україна]

website:

9) 24 March in Miami, Florida (United States)

JOHN JOSEPH [JUAN JOSÉ] McKNIFF

professed priest, Augustinians

born: 05 September 1905 in Media, Pennsylvania (United States)

competent forum: Chulucanas

CCS protocol number: 2347

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of transfer of competent forum: 08 April 2000 (from Miami)

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 07 July 2000

opening of diocesan inquiry: 28 August 2000

closing of diocesan inquiry:  28 August 2002

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 23 April 2004

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Rev. Josef Sciberras, osa

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

website:

10) 03 April in Paris (France)

Jérôme Lejeune

layperson of the archdiocese of Paris; married

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

competent forum: Paris

CCS protocol number: 2774

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 26 June 2007

opening of diocesan inquiry: 28 June 2007

closing of diocesan inquiry: 11 April 2012

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 21 February 2014

publication of Positio: 2017

particular congress of theological consultors: 08 October 2019

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 12 January 2021

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 21 January 2021

postulator: Dr. Aude Dugast

petitioner: Association des amis du professeur Lejeune, 31 rue Galande, 75005 Paris, FRANCE

website: www.amislejeune.org

11) 07 April in Kigali (Rwanda) in odium fidei, uti fertur

CYPRIEN RUGAMBA AND DAPHROSE MUKANSANGA

AND 6 COMPANIONS, THEIR CHILDREN,

ALONG WITH  MARINA GABRIELLA UMUHIRE ZITONI

1)    CYPRIEN [SIPIRIYANI] RUGAMBA

         layperson of the archdiocese of Kigali; married;

         member, Emmanuel Community 

         born: c. 1932 in Cyanika, Nyamagabe (Rwanda)

2)    DAPHROSE [DAFOROZA] MUKANSANGA

         layperson of the archdiocese of Kigali; married;

         member, Emmanuel Community 

         born: c. 1944 in Ngoma, Cyanika, Nyamagabe (Rwanda)

3)    EMÉRITA ABIZIHIWE RUGAMBA

         young layperson of the archdiocese of Kigali

         born: 25 August 1971 in Kigali (Rwanda)

4)    SERGE RUGAMBA

         young layperson of the archdiocese of Kigali

         born: 10 August 1974 in Butare (Rwanda)

5)    CYRINUS CYRDY CYEZAMUTIMA RUGAMBA

         young layperson of the archdiocese of Kigali

         born: 06 December 1977 in Butare (Rwanda)

6)    DACY AUBIN RUGAMBA

         child of the archdiocese of Kigali

         born: 01 January 1982 in Butare (Rwanda)

7)    CYRDINA MARIE-HÉLÈNE CYUZUZO RUGAMBA

         child of the archdiocese of Kigali

         born: 24 April 1984 in Butare (Rwanda)

8)    GINY COLOMBE MWANZURO RUGAMBA

         child of the archdiocese of Kigali

         born: 21 November 1986 in Butare (Rwanda)

9)    MARINA GABRIELLA UMUHIRE ZITONI

         child of the archdiocese of Kigali

         born: 08 December 1988 in Butare (Rwanda)

competent forum: Kigali

CCS protocol number: 3220 (Cyprien Rugamba);

                                           3219 (Daphrose Mukansanga; later for the entire group)

type of cause: martyrdom

opening of diocesan inquiry (per viam virtutum heroicarum): 18 September 2015

nihil obstat (per viam virtutum heroicarum): 04 December 2015

nihil obstat (per viam martyrii): 21 March 2018

opening of diocesan inquiry (per viam martyrii): 12 April 2018

closing of diocesan inquiry: 23 September 2021

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 07 April 2022

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops:

postulator: Dr. Waldery Hilgeman

petitioner: [1991: Pierre Goursat]

website: emmanuel.info/cyprien-daphrose-rugamba

12) 24 April in Buenos Aires (Argentina)

JORGE GOTTAU

professed priest, Redemptorists;

bishop of Añatuya

born: 23 May 1917 in Esteban Gascón, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

competent forum: Buenos Aires

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 2010

opening of diocesan inquiry: 29 June 2010

closing of diocesan inquiry:

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Roberto Dabusti

petitioner: Fundación Gottau, Av. Raúl Scalabrini Ortiz 2069, C1425DBB CABA, ARGENTINA

                      Diócesis of Añatuya, Av. España 150, G3760ASO Añatuya (Santiago del Estero), ARGENTINA

                      Misioneros Redentoristas – Provincia Pedro Donders, Paraguay 1204,

                          C1057AAT Capital Federal, Argentina

website: fundaciongottau.org.ar 

13) 03 June in Quito (Ecuador)

PABLO MUÑOZ VEGA

professed priest, Jesuits;

archbishop of Quito; cardinal

born: 23 May 1903 in Mira, Carchi (Ecuador)

competent forum: Quito

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 10 December 2015

opening of diocesan inquiry: 06 April 2016

closing of diocesan inquiry:

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Rev. Pascual Cebollada Silvestre, sj

petitioner: Compañía de Jesús ‒ Provincia del Ecuador,

                           Hernández de Girón N35-121 entre Av. América y República, ECUADOR

website: www.jesuitas.ec

14) 15 June in Rome (Italy)

GUGLIELMO GIAQUINTA

bishop of Tivoli;

founder, Pro Sanctity Movement

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

competent forum: Rome

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”:

opening of diocesan inquiry:

closing of diocesan inquiry: 12 February 2021 

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Marialuisa Pugliese

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

website: www.guglielmogiaquinta.org

15) 06 July in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia (Italy)

MICHELE NATALE

(DANIELE FROM SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO)

professed religious, Capuchin Franciscans

born: 28 June 1914 in San Giovanni Rotondo, Foggia (Italy)

competent forum: Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo

CCS protocol number: 3093

type of cause: heroic virtues

opening of diocesan inquiry: 07 July 2012

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 2013

closing of diocesan inquiry: 05 November 2016

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 22 September 2017

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Fra Carlo Calloni, ofmcap

petitioner: Provincia di Foggia dei Frati Minori Cappuccini, P.za Immacolata, 6, 71100 Foggia, ITALY

                     [2011: Damiano Fucci  (Modestino from Pietrelcina)]

website: www.amicidifradaniele.it

16) 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 forum: Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela

CCS protocol number: 2420

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 13 July 2001

opening of diocesan inquiry: 21 June 2002

closing of diocesan inquiry: 17 March 2009

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 11 January 2013

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Mons. Luigi Porsi

petitioner: [see 1952: Antonino Celona]

website: www.suormariaalfonsa.it

17) 29 August 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 forum: Madrid

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 2008

opening of diocesan inquiry: 19 February 2009

closing of diocesan inquiry:  20 September 2012

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops:

postulator: Rev. José Carlos Martín de la Hoz

petitioner: [see 1992: Tomás Alvira y Alvira;

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

website: www.opusdei.org

18) 18 September in Rochester, Minnesota (United States)

ROSSELLA PETRELLESE

young layperson of diocese of Acerra

born:  01 April 1972 in Naples (Italy)

competent forum: Acerra

CCS protocol number: 2850

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of transfer of competent forum: 13 September 2008 (from Winona)

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 13 September 2008

opening of diocesan inquiry: 21 March 2009

closing of diocesan inquiry: 16 July 2011

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 03 May 2013

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Fra Massimiliano Noviello, ofmcap

petitioner: Diocesi di Acerra, P.za Duomo, 7, 80011 Acerra (NA), ITALY

                     Frati Minori Cappuccini, Via San Francecsco, 192, 80035 Nola (NA), ITALY

website: www.rossellapetrellese.it 

19) 22 September in Tropea, Vibo Valentia (Italy)

IRMA SCRUGLI

cofounder, Secular Institute of the Oblates of the Sacred Heart (n.o.)

born: 28 June 1914 in Tropea, Vibo Valentia (Italy)

competent forum: Mileto-Nicotera-Tropea 

CCS protocol number: 3161

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 20 October 2014

opening of diocesan inquiry: 22 December 2014

closing of diocesan inquiry: 04 September 2017

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Rev. Enzo Gabrieli

petitioner: [see 1969: Francesco Mottola]

website: www.famigliaoblata.org

20) 01 October in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid (Spain)

TOMÁS MORALES PÉREZ

professed priest, Jesuits;

founder, Secular Institutes of the Crusaders of Mary

born: 30 October 1908 in Macuto, La Guaira (Venezuela)

competent forum: Madrid

CCS protocol number: 2325

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of transfer of competent forum: 18 December 1999 (from Alcalá de Henares)

rescript of “nihil obstat”: 14 April 2000

opening of diocesan inquiry: 24 June 2000

closing of diocesan inquiry: 17 March 2007

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry: 17 October 2008

publication of Positio: 2013

particular congress of theological consultors: 06 October 2016

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 17 October 2017

promulgation of decree on heroic virtues: 08 November 2017

postulator: Dr. María Victoria Hernández Rodríguez

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

website: www.tomasmorales.info

21) 18 November in Teresin, Sochaczew (Poland)

EUGENIUSZ WÓJCIK (INNOCENTY MARIA)

professed priest, Conventual Franciscans

born: 30 November 1908 in Słaboszów, Miechów (Poland)

competent forum: Warsaw

CCS protocol number:

type of cause: heroic virtues

rescript of “nihil obstat”:

opening of diocesan inquiry: 08 September 2022

closing of diocesan inquiry:

decree on validity of diocesan inquiry:

publication of Positio:

particular congress of theological consultors:

ordinary session of cardinals and bishops: 

postulator: Fra Zdzisław Józef Kijas, ofmconv

petitioner: Prowincja Matki Bożej Niepokalanej - Zakonu Braci Mniejszych Konwentualnych,

                          ul. Zakroczymska 1, 00-225 Warszawa, POLAND 

website: www.franciszkanie-warszawa.pl