Vatican
City, 6 June 2015 (VIS) – Yesterday afternoon the Holy Father
Francis received in 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 the Venerable Servant of God
Francesco de Paola Victor, Brazilian diocesan priest (1827-1905);
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attributed to the intercession of the Venerable Servant of God Klara
Ludwika Szcz?sna, Polish co-founder of the Congregation of the
Handmaids of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus (1863-1916).
MARTYRDOM
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Servant of God Frederic de Berga (né Martí Tarrés Puigpelat) and
25 companions, Spanish priests and lay brothers of the Order of
Friars Minor Capuchin, killed in hatred of the faith in 1936;
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Servant of God Joseph Thao Tiên, diocesan priest, and ten
companions, professed priests of the Society of the Paris Foreign
Missions and the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, and four lay companions,
killed in hatred of the faith in Laos between 1954 and 1970.
HEROIC
VIRTUES
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Servant of God Antonino Celona, Italian diocesan priest and founder
of the Handmaids of Reparation of the Sacred Heart of Jesus
(1873-1952);
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Servant of God Ottorino Zanon, Italian priest and founder of the
Congregation of the Pious Society of St. Cajetan (1915-1972);
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Servant of God Marcello Labor, Italian diocesan priest (1890-1954);
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Servant of God Maria Antonia of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (née
Rachele Lalia), Italian founder of the Dominican Sisters of St. Sisto
Vecchio (1839-1914).
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