PROMULGATION OF DECREES BY CONGREGATION FOR CAUSES OF SAINTS

VATICAN CITY, MAR 26, 1999 (VIS) - Today in the Consistory Hall, the following decrees were promulgated in the presence of John Paul II and members of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints and postulators of the respective causes:
- Three decrees regarding miracles attributed to the intercession of Blesseds:
- Tommaso da Cori (ne Francesco Antonio Placidi), Italian, priest of the Order of Friars Minor (1655-1729).
- Benedetto (ne Angelo Menni Figini), Italian, priest of the Hospitaller Order of St. John of God, and founder of the Hospital Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1841-1914).
- Maria de Jesus Sacramento (nee Maria Venegas de la Torre), Mexican, foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Heart of Jesus (1868-1959).

- One decree regarding a miracle attributed to the intercession of Servant of God Mariano de Jesus Euse Hoyos, Colombian, diocesan priest (1845-1926).

- Three decrees regarding the martyrdom of Servants of God:
- Anton Julian Nowowiejski, archbishop-bishop of Plock, Henrick Kaczorowski and Anicet Koplinski, diocesan priests, Maria Anna Biernacka, lay woman, and 104 companions, Polish, martyred for the faith during the Nazi persecution of the Church from 1939-1945.
- Stefan Vincenz Frelichowksi, Polish, diocesan priest, (1913-1945), died "ex aerumnis carceris" in 1945 at Dachau concentration camp, Germany.
- Alfonso Lopez and five companions, Spanish, of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, who were martyred for the faith on July 27 and 31, and August 3, 1936, during the religious persecution of the Second Spanish Republic, in Salamus, Spain.

- Five decrees regarding the heroic virtue of Servants of God:
- Lino da Parma (ne Linus Maupas), Croatian, of the Order of Friars Minor (1866-1924).
- Egidio Giuseppe Dei Sacri Cuori (ne Severino Malacarne), Italian, priest of the Congregation of the Passionists (1877-1953).
- Aureliano del Santisimo Sacramento (ne Pedro Landeta y Azcueta), Spanish, priest of the Order of Discalced Carmelites (1887-1963).
- Isabel del Sagrado Corazon de Jesus (nee Isabel Larranga Ramirez), Filipino, founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (1836-1899).
- Marie Elizabeth Hesselblad, Swedish, foundress of the Order of the Most Holy Savior and of St. Brigid (1870-1957).

Among those present were Archbishop Jose Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, Archbishop Edward Nowak, secretary, a group of cardinals and members of dicasteries.

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