Vatican
City, 6 May 2015 (VIS) - Yesterday afternoon 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:
MIRACLES
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attributed to the intercession of Blessed Vincenzo Grossi, Italian
diocesan priest and founder of the Institute of the Daughters of the
Oratory (1845-1917);
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attributed to the intercession of Blessed Maria of the Immaculate
Conception (nee Maria Isabel Salvat Romero), Spanish superior general
of the Sisters of the Company of the Cross (1926-1998);
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attributed to the intercession of Venerable Servant of God Giacomo
Abbondo, Italian diocesan priest (1720-1788);
MARTYRDOM
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Servants of God Mario Borzaga, Italian professed priest of the
Congregation of Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate and Paul Thoj
Xyooj, lay catechist, killed in hatred of the faith in Laos in April
1960;
HEROIC
VIRTUES
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Servant of God Jacinto Vera, bishop of Montevideo, Uruguay
(1813-1881);
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Servant of God Antonio Antic, Croatian professed priest of the Order
of Friars Minor (1893-1965);
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Servant of God Juliette Colbert de Falletti di Barolo, French
laywoman, widow and founder of the Daughters of Jesus the Good
Shepherd (1786-1864);
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Servant of God Maria Brigida Postorino, Italian founder of the
Daughters of Mary Immaculate (1865-1960);
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Servant of God Maria Rafaela Jesus Hostia, Spanish professed nun of
the Order of Capuchin Poor Clares (1915-1991);
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Servant of God Sergio Bernardini, Italian layman and father
(1882-1966);
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Servant of God Domenica Bedonni in Bernardini, Italian laywoman and
mother (1889-1971).
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