Saints and Blessed

Saints and Blessed

Saints and Blessed
"The saints have always been the source and origin of renewal in the most difficult circumstances all through Church history" (quoted in VC 35), also applies fo our Fraternity.

Canonizations
* 10 June 1997 (in Krosno, Poland): John of Dukla (+1484), professed priest.
* 29 November 1999 (Rome): Thomas of Cori (+1729), professed priest.
* 1 October 2000 (Rome): 30 Franciscan Martyrs of China. The group consisted of 9 Friars Minor, including 3 bishops; 7 Franciscan Missionaries of Mary. 11 members of the Secular Franciscan Order and 3 lay faithful.
* 19 May 2002 (Rome): Humilis of Bisignano (+1637), professed religious.
* 30 July 2002 (Guatemala): Brother Pedro de San JosÈ Betancur (+1667), member of the SFO and founder of the Brothers and Sisters of Bethlehem.
Beatifications
* 21 June 1998 (Vienna): M. Restituta Kafka (+1943), professed religious of the Institute of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity, Martyr.
* 25 October 1998 (Rome): Antonio di Sant'Anna Galv“o (+1822), professed priest
* 13 June 1999 (Warsaw): Five Friars Minor together with 103 companions, Martyrs.
* 3 October 1999 (Rome) Mariano da Roccacasale (+1866) and Diego Oddi (+1919), professed religious.
* 3 September 2000 (Rome): Pope John XXIII (+1963) member of the SFO.
* 11 March 2001 (Rome): Pascual FortuÒo Almela and three companions (+1936), professed religious, Martyrs.
* 9 May, 2002 (La Valetta): Ignazio Falzon, (+1865), diocesan cleric, member of the SFO.
* 14 April 2002 (Rome): Maria del Transito Cabanillas (+1885), virgin, Founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Missionary Tertiaries of Argentina.
* 20 October 2002 (Rome): HÈlËne Marie Philippine de Chappotin de Neuville, in religion Mary of the Passion (+1904), Founder of the Francsican Missionaries of Mary.

Servants of God accorded the title 'Venerable'

Adrian Osmolowski, OFM (10 July 2000); Egidio Bullesi, SFO (7 July1997); Firmin Wickenhauser, OFM (21 December 1998); Francesco Paleari, diocesan priest (6 April 1998); John XXIII, Pope, SFO (21 December 1999); Giuseppe Ghezzi, OFM (18 December 2000); Lino da Parma, OFM (26 March 1999); Mary of the Passion, FMM Founder (28 June 1999); Maria di Ges˜ Santocanale, Founder (10 July 2000); Maria Domenica Mantovani (23 April 2002); Maria Restituta Kafka, Martyr (6 April 1998); Maria Teresa Casini, Founder (7 July 1997); Maria Transito Cabanillas, Founder (28 June 1999); Paolo Pio Perazzo, SFO (6 April 1998); Pascual FortuÒo Almela and Companions, OFM, Martyrs (20 December 1999); Wendelin Vosnjak, OFM (18 December 2000).

New Causes introduced 1997-2003
at the Congregation for the Causes of Saints

Friars Minor: Raffaele Emanuele Almansa, priest (1997); Ireneo Mazotti, Priest (1997); Agostino Ernesto Castrillo, Bishop (1999); Ricardo Pelufo Esteve and 35 Companions, Martyrs (1999); Simpliciano della Nativitý, Priest, Founder (1999); Cosma Spesotto, Martyr (2000); Simon of Lipnica, Blessed (2000). For canonization: Alfredo Morganti Berta, priestr (2001); Peter Pavelic, priest (2000); Clemente Gatti, priest and martyr (2002).

Poor Clares: Francesca of the Infant Jesus (2002); Camilla Pia di Savoia, Founder of the monastery of Carpi (2002).

Franciscan Third Order Regular: Paola Gil Cano, founder (1997); Ilia Corsaro, founder (1997); Mary Elizabeth of the Trinity, founder (1998); Maria Hueber, founder (1999); Margaret de Brincat, founder (2000); Clara Alvarez of the Heart of Mary, founder (2001); Luisa Mary Langstroth, founder (2001).

Causes from outside the Order: Massimo Rinaldi, bishop of Rieti (1997); Francesco Bonifacio, priest and martyr (1998); Clelia Merloni, founder (1998); Odoardo Focherini, layman and martyr (1998); Angelo Bonetta, adolescent (1998); Mariano G. Usera y AlarcÛn, priest and founder (1999); Marcello Labor, diocesan priest (2000); Vincenzo Lojali, bishop of Amelia (2001); Rosella Staltari, religious (2002).

Other Information
between 1997 and 2003 30 'positiones' were completed and officially submitted to the Congregation for the Causes of Saints; 21 of these were "super vita et virtutibus" and the remaining 9 "super miraculo". Many of these have already been processed and have led to the beatification or canonization of the Venerable of Blessed to whose intercession the miracles were attributed.

At the present time the Postulation Office is attending to 189 causes of beatification or canonization (excluding some old causes "quae silent"), divided thus: Friars Minor: 81; Poor Clares: 13; Conceptionists: 4; Franciscan sisters: 34; Secular Franciscans: 22; causes external to the Order: 35.