Vatican
City, 3 February 2015 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father Francis
received in a private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B., prefect
of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, during which he
authorised the Congregation to promulgate the following decrees:
MARTYRDOM
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Servant of God Oscar Arnulfo Romero Galdamez (El Salvador,
1917-1980), archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, killed in hatred
of the faith on 24 March 1980.
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Servants of God Michal Tomaszek (Poland, 1960) and Zbigniew
Strazalkowski (Poland, 1958), professed priests of the Order of
Friars Minor Conventual, and Alessandro Dordi, Italian diocesan
priest, killed in hatred of the faith in Peru on 9 and 25 August
1991.
HEROIC
VIRTUES
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Servant of God Giovanni Bacile, Italian priest (1880-1941).
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