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VATICAN CITY - Today, 10 May
2012, Pope Benedict XVI received in a private audience Angelo
Cardinal Amato,
sdb, prefect of
the Congregation of the Causes of the Saints.
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Hildegard |
T. Acerbis |
M. Troncatti |
B. Bachstein |
R. Castaño |
J. Puig |
O. Focherini |
During the audience,
the Holy Father authorized the extension of
the liturgical cultus of Saint HILDEGARD OF BINGEN,
professed religious of the Order of Saint Benedictine
Nuns [born in 1089 in Bermersheim, Alzey-Worms
(Germany) and died on 17 September 1179 in Bingen am Rhein,
Mainz-Bingen (Germany)] to the universal Church, inscribing her
in the catalogue of saints.
In that same audience, the Holy
Father authorized the Congregation of the Causes of Saints to
promulgate the following seventeen decrees regarding:
- a miracle, attributed to the intercession of the
Venerable Servant of God TOMMASO ACERBIS (in
religion: TOMMASO FROM OLERA),
professed religious of the Order of Friars
Minor Capuchins; born
in 1563 in Olera, Bergamo (Italy)
and died on 03 May 1631 in Innsbruck, Tyrol (Austria); declared
venerable on 23 October 1987;
- a miracle, attributed to the intercession of the
Venerable Servant of God
MARIA TRONCATTI,
professed religious of the Congregation of
the Daughters of Mary, Help of Christians (Salesian Sisters);
born on
16 February 1883 in Corteno Golgi, Brescia
(Italy) and died on 25 August 1969 in Sucúa, Morona-Santiago
(Ecuador ) declared
venerable on 12 November 2008;
- the martyrdom of the
Servant of God BEDŘICH BACHSTEIN,
professed priest of the Order of Friars Minor, born around 1561
in
Pená, Jindřichův Hradec
(Czech Republic) and
13 COMPANIONS,
professed priests and religious of the Order of Friars Minor, who were killed
in odium fidei
on 15 February 1611 in Prague
(Czech Republic);
- the martyrdom of the
Servants of God RAIMUNDO JOAQUÍN CASTAÑO GONZÁLEZ,
born on
20 August 1865 in Mieres, Asturias
(Spain), and JOSÉ MARÍA
GONZÁLEZ
SOLÍS,
born on 15 January 1877 in
Santibáñez de Murias, Asturias (Spain),
professed priests of the
Order of Preachers (Dominicans), who were killed
in odium fidei
on 02 October 1936
in Bilbao, Vizcaya (Spain);
- the martyrdom of the
Servant of God JAUME PUIG MIROSA,
professed priest of the Congregation of the Sons of the
Holy Family, born on 03 June 1908 in
Terrasa, Barcelona (Spain) and died on 30 July 1936 in Blanes,
Girona (Spain) ,
and
18 COMPANIONS,
professed priests and religious of the Congregation of the
of the Sons of the Holy Family,
along with
SEBASTIÀ LLORENS TELARROJA,
layperson of the diocese of Girona, who were killed in odium fidei
in various places
within the region of Catalunya (Spain);
- the martyrdom
of the Servant of God ODOARDO FOCHERINI,
layperson of the diocese of Carpi;
born on
06 June 1907 in Carpi, Modena (Italy) and
killed in odium fidei
on 27 December 1944 in Hersbruck,
Nürnberger Land (Germany);
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R. Delle Nocche |
F. Baraga |
P. Uva |
B. Pardal |
F.d.P. Vcitor |
J. Sevin |
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M.J. Recio |
M.T. Demjanovich |
E. Engel |
R. Ambrosini |
M. Bolognesi |
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God
RAFFAELLO DELLE NOCCHE, bishop of Tricarico and founder
of the Sisters Disciples of the Eucharistic Jesus; born on 19
April 1877 in Marano, Naples (Italy)
and died on 25 November 1960 in
Tricarico, Matera (Italy)
;
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God
FREDERICK BARAGA , bishop of Marquette; born on
28 June 1797 in Knežja Vas, Trebnje
(Slovenia) and died
on
19 January 1868 in Marquette, Michigan
(United States of America);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God
PASQUALE UVA, priest of the archdiocese of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie and founder
of the Congregation of the Handmaids of Divine Providence; born on
10 August 1883 in Bisceglie, Bari (Italy)
and died there on 13 September 1955;
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God
BALTASÁR PARDAL VIDAL, priest of the diocese of
Santiago de Compostela
and founder of the Secular Institute of the
Daughters of the Nativity of Mary; born on
18 August 1886 in Enfesta, Santa Cristina
de Fecha, La Coruña (Spain) and died
on 03 March 1963 in La Coruña
(Spain);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God
FRANCISCO DE PAULA VICTOR, priest of the diocese of
Campanha; born on 12 April 1827 in Campanha, Minas Gerais
(Brazil)
and died on 23 September 1905 in
Três Pontas, Minas Gerais (Brazil);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God JACQUES
SEVIN, professed priest of the Society of Jesus and
founder of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Cross of
Jerusalem and of the Catholic Scouts of France; born on
07 December 1882 in Lille, Nord (France)
and died
on 19 July 1951 in Boran-sur-Oise,
Oise (France);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God MARÍA
JOSEFA RECIO MARTÍN (in religion: MARÍA JOSEFA
OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT),
founder of the Congregation of the Hospitaller Sisters of the
Sacred Heart of Jesus; born on 19 March 1846 in Granada (Spain)
and died on 30 October 1883 in
Ciempozuelos, Madrid (Spain);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God TERESA
DEMJANOVICH (in religion: MIRIAM TERESA),
professed religious of the Congregation of the Sisters of
Charity of Saint Elizabeth; born on 26 March 1901 in
Bayonne, New Jersey (United States of America)
and died on 08 May 1927 in Convent
Station, New Jersey (United States of America);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God
EMILIE ENGEL,
consecrated member, Secular
Institute of the Schönstatt Sisters of Mary ; born on 06
February 1893 in Husten/Drolshagen, Olpe (Germany)
and died on 20
November 1955 in Metternich, Koblenz (Germany);
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God
RACHELE AMBROSINI, young layperson of the diocese of
Benevento; born on 02 July 1925 in Venticano (a.k.a.
Campanarello), Avellino (Italy) and
died on 10 March 1941 in Rome
(Italy); and,
- the heroic virtues
of the Servant of God
MARIA BOLOGNESI, layperson of the diocese of Adria-Rovigo;
born on 21 October 1924 in Bosaro, Rovigo (Italy)
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 VATICAN CITY -
Today, 14 March 2012, Pope Benedict XVI
authorized the Congregation of the Causes of Saints to
promulgate the decree recognizing the heroic virtues of the
Servant of God FÉLIX VARELA MORALES
(1788-1853), priest of the diocese of San Cristóbal de la
Habana.
Félix Francisco José María de la Concepción Varela Morales was born
on 20 November 1788 in Havana, Cuba (then a Spanish colony). Due
to ill health, the death of his mother, and the prolonged
absence of his father, he traveled with his aunt to Saint
Augustine, Florida in 1794. Years later, he returned to Havana
to enter the College Seminary of Saint Charles and Saint Ambrose
and was ordained to the priesthood on 21 December 1811.
Distinguished for his lively intellect and profound culture,
Varela was elected in 1821 to represent the Cuban people in the
Spanish Parliament. There in Madrid, he introduced propositions
favoring the abolition of slavery and the autonomy of the
Spain’s provinces in America. Because of King Ferdinand VII’s
crackdown against the opposition in 1823, Varela fled from
political oppression and went to New York. He lived there for
the next thirty years of his life, first as a political exile
and afterwards as a parish priest and then as vicar general of
the newly created diocese. Committed to the pastoral care of the
people, Varela constructed new churches, created social works,
asylums and schools for children and fostered the integration of
the different immigrant groups. He was an exemplary priest,
zealous to evangelize the people and to build the
community of Christ’s faithful. Afflicted with asthma, he later
moved to Florida and spent the last years of his life there.
Always abandoned to the Divine will, Varela died on 25 February
1853 in the city of Saint Augustine.
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