Decrees of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints
(Vatican Radio) On Monday during a private audience with Cardinal Angelo Amato S.D.B.,
prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Pope Francis authorised the
Congregation to promulgate the following decrees:
MIRACLES
Venerable
Servant of God Giovannina Franks, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Our
Nurses , born in Como ( Italy ) June 24, 1807, died February 23, 1872 ;
MARTYRDOM
Servants
of God, Mario Vergara, professed priest of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions
,and Isidore Ngei Ko Lat, and Lay Catechist , killed in hatred of the faith in Shadaw
(Burma , now Myanmar) May 24, 1950 :
HEROIC VIRTUES
Servant
of God Maria Matteo Maurizio Garrigou, Priest, Founder of the Institute of Our Lady
of Compassion , born in Gudanes (Ariege , France ) September 21, 1766, died in Toulouse
(France) September 27, 1852 ;
Servant of God Clemente (nee Vincent Fuhl ) ,
professed priest of the Order of St. Augustine , born in Aidhausen (Germany) June
18, 1874 and died in La Paz ( Bolivia), March 31, 1935 ;
Servant of God Marcello
of the Virgin of Carmel (nee Boldizsár Marton ), professed priest of the Order of
Discalced Carmelites born in Kiskomárom ( today Zalakomár , Hungary) September 9,
1887 and died in Budapest ( Hungary) May 29, 1966 ;
Servant of God Roman Bottegal,
professed priest of the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance ( Trappists
), born in San Donato di Lamon (Belluno , Italy ) December 28, 1921 and died in Beirut
( Lebanon) February 19 1978;
Servant of God Rosalia Cadron - Jetté ( in religion
: Mother of the Nativity ), founder of the Sisters of Mercy , born in Lavaltrie (
Montreal , Canada ) January 27, 1794 and died in Montréal (Canada) April 5, 1864 ;
Servant
of God Maria Rosa Teresa Gay Tibau , founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph now Sisters
of St. Joseph of Gerona, born in Llagostera ( Girona , Spain ) October 24, 1813 and
died in Gerona (Spain) March 18, 1884 ;
Servant of God Maria Oliva of the Mystical
Body (nee Maria Oliva Bonaldo ), foundress of the Institute of the Daughters of the
Church , born in Castelfranco Veneto (Treviso , Italy ) March 26, 1893 and died in
Rome on 10 July 1976 ;
Servant of God Orsola Mezzini , professed religious
and Superior General of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Little Mission for
the Deaf and Dumb, born Camping Monghidoro (Bologna , Italy ) December 12, 1853 and
died in Bologna ( Italy ) 23 March 1919 ;
Servant of God Maria Scholar of Divine
Providence (nee Maria Orsola Rivata ), professed religious and first Superior General
of the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master , born in Guarene ( Cuneo, Italy ) July
12, 1897 and died in Sanfré ( Cuneo, Italy ) on 24 March 1987;
Servant of God
Raphael Cordero Molina , Layman , born in San Juan de Puerto Rico ( Puerto Rico) October
24, 1790 and died there July 5, 1868.