CONSISTORY HELD ON SEVERAL CAUSES FOR CANONIZATION

VATICAN CITY, MAR 13, 2001 (VIS) - This morning at 11 in the Consistory Hall of the Vatican Apostolic Palace, Pope John Paul presided at an Ordinary Public Consistory for the canonization of the following Blesseds:

Giuseppe Marello, bishop, founder of the Congregation of the Oblates of St. Joseph; Luigi Scrosoppi, priest, of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Providence of St. Gaetano Thiene; Agostino Roscelli, priest, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Bernardo da Corleone (ne Filippo Latino), religious, of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchins; Teresa Eustochio Verzeri, virgin, foundress of the Institute of the Daughters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus; Paola Montal Fornes di San Giuseppe Calasanzio, virgin, foundress of the Institute of the Daughters of Mary, Religious of the Pious Schools; Francesca Sales Aviat, religious, foundress of the Congregation of the Oblate Sisters of St. Francis de Sales; Maria Crescentia Hoss, virgin, sister of the Third Order of St. Francis; Rebecca Pietra Ar-Rayes di Himlaya, virgin, sister of the Lebanese Order of St. Anthony of the Maronites.

The Holy Father announced the dates for the canonizations:

June 10, 2001: Luigi Scrosoppi; Agostino Roscelli; Bernardo da Corleone (Filippo Latino); Teresa Eustochio Verzeri and Rebecca Pietra Ar-Rayes di Himlaya.

November 25, 2001: Giuseppe Marello; Paola Montal Fornes di San Giuseppe Calasanzio; Francesca Sales Aviat and Maria Crescentia Hoss.

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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 13, 2001 (VIS) - The Holy Father:

- Erected the eparchy of St. Thomas of the Syro-Malabars of Chicago, for the faithful of the Syro-Malabar rite living in the U.S.A.

- Appointed Fr. Jacob Angadiath, of the clergy of the eparchy of Palai, Kerala, India, pastor of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Mission of Bellwood, Illinois, U.S.A., as first bishop of St. Thomas of the Syro-Malabars of Chicago, U.S.A. The bishop-elect was born in Periappuram, Kerala, India, in 1945, and ordained to the priesthood in 1972. The Pope also named bishop-elect Angadiath as permanent apostolic visitator for the Syro-Malabar faithful in Canada.

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AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, MAR 13, 2001 (VIS) - This evening the Holy Father is scheduled to receive Cardinal Jozef Tomko, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

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ARCHBISHOP FOLEY SCHEDULED TO SPEAK IN ROME AND U.S.

VATICAN CITY, MAR 13, 2001 (VIS) - Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, is scheduled to make a number of speeches in coming days in both Rome and the United States. He is also participating in the council's plenary meeting, which began yesterday in the Vatican. The Holy Father is scheduled to receive the participants later in the week.

Archbishop Foley will speak in Rome on Friday, March 16 to the meeting of European Bishops' Committee for Media on the presence of the Church and of religion in general in the European media. He will also treat the question of the growing tendency to deregulation in the media.

On Monday, March 19, the archbishop will be in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. and will preach the homily at a Mass celebrating the 150th anniversary of his alma mater, St. Joseph's University. That same day he will speak on "Perspective on Jubilee 2000" at the sesquicentennial lecture series at the university.
March 21 the council president will again give a homily during a Mass in St. Martin's Chapel of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia. A day later, he will speak on "Ethics in Communications: May We Say Whatever We Want?" at the Institute of Catholic Studies at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A.

His last address in the United States is scheduled for March 23, when we will talk on "Announcing the Good News to a New Millennium: The New Media and The Task of Evangelization" at St. Mary's Seminary in Cleveland.

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