PROMULGATION OF DECREES BY CONGREGATION FOR CAUSES OF SAINTS

VATICAN CITY, APR 24, 2001 (VIS) - This morning in the Clementine Hall, the following decrees were promulgated in the presence of the Holy Father, members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and the postulators of the respective causes. Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the congregation, read a speech detailing the lives of the future Blesseds and Saints who, he said, radically lived the Gospel precept to "be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect."

The 52 causes are for:

MARTYRS:

- Nicola Carneckyj, bishop, apostolic exarch of Volyn and Pidljashja, Ukraine, and 25 companions, including 7 bishops, 14 priests, 3 sisters and one lay man, father of a family.
- Ruthenian Bishop Teodoro Romzsa, of the Byzantine rite, apostolic administrator of Munkacs, Ukraine.
- Archbishop Ignazio Choukrallah Maloyan of Mardin, Turkey, of the Armenian Church.
- Emiliano Kovc, priest of the eparchy of Stanislaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine), died in the concentration camp of Majdanek, Poland in 1944.

HEROIC VIRTUES:

- Archbishop Sigismondo Felice Felinski, born in Volinia, then Polish and now Ukrainian territory, founder of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of the Family of Mary for the assistance of the poor.
- Italian Bishop Giovanni Antonio Farina, founder of the Teaching Sisters of St. Dorothy Daughters of the Sacred Hearts for the education of poor children.
- Giuseppe Gualandi, priest of Bologna, Italy, established the Religious Institute of the Little Mission for the Deaf-Mute.
- Tommaso Maria Fusco, priest of the diocese of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno, founder of the Daughters of Charity of the Most Precious Blood.
- Camillian Father Luigi Tezza, founder of the Daughters of St. Camillus, together with Blessed Giuseppina Vannini.
- Charles de Foucauld, priest of the diocese of Viviers, France; died in Algeria in 1916.
- Luigi Monti, religious, established the Men's Institute of the Sons of the Immaculate Conception.
- Maria Maddalena dell'Incarnazione, nee Caterina Sordini, foundress of the Order of the Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament.
- Maria Domenica Mantovani, collaborator in the foundation of the Congregation of the Little Daughters of the Holy Family.
- Anna Caterina Emmerick, Canoness Regular of St. Augustine.
- Rosalia Rendu, Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.
- Benedictine Abbess Maria Adeodata Pisani, of the Convent of San Pietro a Mdina, Malta.
- Concetta Bertoli, of Italian Catholic Action and a Franciscan Tertiary.
MIRACLES:

- Blessed Alfonso de Orozco, 16th century Spanish Augustinian.
- Nine Men and Women Servants of God, who have served the people of God in Argentina, Costa Rica, Italy, Malta, and Ukraine: Sigismondo Gorazdowski; Gaetano Errico; Paolo Manna; Ignazio Falzon, cleric; Artemide Zatti, lay professor; and Sisters Gaetana Sterni, Giosafata Hordashevska, Maria Adeodata Pisani, and Maria Romero Meneses.

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